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  • Mother of wrongfully convicted man honored by state Senate

    AUSTIN — Ruby Cole Session of Fort Worth, the mother of wrongly convicted inmate Timothy Brian Cole, was honored on the floor of the Texas Senate on Tuesday for her achievements as an educator, criminal justice reformer and a “fierce champion of the wrongly ...

  • Microsoft announces Xbox One

    Tim Cato / Contributing Writer Microsoft made its return to the gaming platform battlefield in a 12 p.m. press conference earlier today in Redmond, Washington, unveiling details about the new Xbox One console that is expected to be released later this ...

  • Man convicted of killing sons scheduled to testify

    DALLAS (AP) -- A North Texas man convicted of capital murder for drowning his two young sons is scheduled to take the stand in the penalty phase of his ...

  • Texas Emerging Technology Fund slated to get $50M

    The Texas Emerging Technology Fund is expected to be allocated $50 million for the next biennium. The Texas Emerging Technology Fund is expected to be replenished with $50 million for the next two years, based on a new budget deal, the Austin American Statesman reports. Although this falls below Gov. Rick Perrys request of $69.5 million for the ETF for the next two years, the amount is still a ...

  • Texas senior 18 bags 800-pound record alligator

    A Houston-area high school senior has bagged a 14-foot, 800 pound alligator - the heaviest ever certified in Texas - on his first alligator ...

Movie Review

The Company Men [Blu-Ray]

The Company Men [Blu-Ray]

In a happenstance that was entirely unintended, I watched John Wellss The Company Men right after revisiting Herbert Rosss The Secret of the My Success (1986). Wellss film, which intertwines the stories of three downsized corporate executives and feels ripped from all th ... ...

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  • Despite rain water restrictions coming to Tarrant County in June

    The Tarrant Regional Water District will implement mandatory water restrictions June 3, limiting irrigation to twice a week for most Tarrant County cities. It feels strange to talk about water restrictions with thunderstorm clouds on the horizon but hey, this is Texas. The Tarrant Regional Water District announced today that twice-a-week watering restrictions will go into effect June 3 for most ...

  • Park Gates at City Place in Dallas gets new owner

    Park Gates at City Place was sold by The Connor Group to a new investor. In the second property sale this month, Ohio-based The Connor Group has sold Park Gates at City Place, a 228-unit apartment property in East Dallas. Terms of the deal, including the investor purchasing the property, were undisclosed, a company official told me Tuesday. The Connor Group owned the East Dallas property for six ...

  • San Antonio IT firms YL Operari combine operations

    Y&L Consulting has finalized its buy-out of The Operari Group. Y&L Consulting has closed on the companys buy-out of the Operari Group. Now that the acquisition is completed, San Antonio-based Y&L plans on significantly expanding its information technology offerings. This is a good union for all concerned, Operari co-founder and managing partner Shaun Williams says. Operari has spent the last ...

  • Muppets creators items head to NY museum

    NEW YORK (AP) — The Muppets may have taken Manhattan, but they're getting a spiffy new home in Queens.Muppet creator Jim Henson's family is donating about 400 puppets, costumes, props and other items to the Museum of the Moving Image.Mayor Michael Bloomberg was on hand for the announcement Tuesday.The museum plans to build a new gallery to house the new contributions. The city is ...

  • Rare $10 bill marked for city of West to be sold

    DALLAS (AP) — A rare $10 bill from 1929 marked with the name of the Texas town of West is set to be auctioned off to benefit the families of victims of the deadly fertilizer plant explosion there.Dallas-based Heritage Auctions will offer up the bill Tuesday. The April 17 explosion killed 14 people.Heritage says that, beginning in 1865, banks could place bonds and other securities on ...

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