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  • Optimistic Texas Shoplifter Steals Penis Enlargement Pills And Of Course Oversize Magnum Condoms

    An optimistic shoplifter who swiped "male enhancement" pills from a 7-Eleven in Texas also made sure to steal a box of jumbo-sized condoms, police report. The unknown perpetrator walked out of the Dallas business early Sunday morning with a $31.14 package of ExtenZe, the purported penis enlargement supplement, and Magnum condoms valued at $19.16, according to ...

  • Texas Advances Sweeping Anti-Choice Bill That Will Force Most Abortion Clinics To Close

    approved SB 5 , a measure that would tighten restrictions on abortion clinics, late on Tuesday night. The legislation now heads to the GOP-dominated House. If SB 5 becomes law, the vast majority of the abortion clinics in the Lone Star state will be forced to close their doors. Texas’ legislative session is actually already over. But lawmakers are currently considering SB 5 because Gov. ...

  • Texas tops US in number of lost stolen firearms

    The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued a report this week showing there were 18,874 firearms lost or stolen in Texas in 2012. The figure amounts to 10 percent of the total national number. The next closest state was Georgia with 12,906. Following in order were Florida, 12,571; California, 10,639; and North Carolina, ...

  • Judge to hear new evidence in school finance case

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The judge in Texas' sweeping school finance case says he will hear new evidence based on the Legislature's recent restoring of about $3.4 billion in funding to ...

  • AL teen charged with abducting baby found in Texas

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- An Alabama teenager was charged Wednesday with abducting a 10-month-old boy who was found safe in Texas almost two days after being taken from a home in Birmingham, police ...

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Team America: World Police [DVD]

Team America: World Police [DVD]

Team America: World Police is an equal-opportunity offender satire for people in the middle -- you know, all those political independents who had a hard time making up their mind about who to vote for because theyre equally off-put by the Republicans holier-than-thou self ... ...

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  • Unemployed Texas teacher returns lost bag containing $20G

    An unemployed teacher was driving home after dropping her cat off at a veterinarian when she noticed a bag on the street. She stopped but doubted it contained anything, but soon discovered the bag was holding about $20,000. Candace Scott said the bag had a Chase bank label, so she promptly delivered it to a nearby branch. She pound on the glass around 8 a.m. Tuesday to get the branch manager to ...

  • Fitch Confirms S-T F1 Rating on Texas Veterans Bonds Taxable Refunding Series 2010B

    Money Market Funds Explore Callable Commercial Paper in Value Search Money market funds (MMFs) are slowly increasing exposure to a relatively new short-term instrument - callable commercial paper (CP), according to Fitch Ratings. MMFs are exploring callable CP as a way to add additional yield and diversification to portfolios, as well as in response to banks' reduced appetite for providing ...

  • Car driver cited in deadly biker wreck

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - The driver of a car involved in a deadly motorcycle wreck received a citation for failing to yield the right of way. The wreck happened early Tuesday on a rain-slicked Guadalupe Street, killing a 59-year-old man. Police said a black 2012 Honda Accord was heading south in the 3900 block of Guadalupe Street just after 6 a.m. when the biker on a 2009 Honda Shadow motorcycle, ...

  • Texas Windstorm Insurance Group Expects Surplus

    The nonprofit, state-supervised property insurance agency for coastal Texas counties is expected to shore up its finances by the end of the year, the group told a state House panel on June 17. Pete Gise, who handles the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association’s finances, said that after being in debt since 2012, the association projects it will see its first surplus by the end of the year. ...

  • Corpus Christi police Man arrested after alcohol marijuana and gun found in car.

    Corpus Christi police arrested a 19-year-old man who had marijuana, alcohol and a gun in his car Tuesday night, police said in a news release. Police said they pulled over a black 2007 Chevrolet Impala in the 1000 block of National Drive before 11 p.m. for a traffic violation. When the officer was speaking with the man, the officer saw a scale beneath the driver's feet. After a search ...

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