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  • Kim Collins to be honoured by a Texas university

    Caribbean sprint legend Kim Collins is to be inducted into the Texas Christian University's (TCU) Hall of Fame during an official ceremony later this year. Collins, who competed for the TCU Horned Frogs and received six All-America honours, will be inducted into their letterman's Hall of Fame along with six other former TCU athletes. The 37-year-old former World Champion attended TCU between ...

  • West Texas leader seeks review of El Paso schools

    EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- A West Texas congressman has asked a federal agency to investigate all El Paso County school districts amid a cheating scandal at some ...

  • Texas Equusearch volunteer charged with theft

    Officials had noticed unusual cash withdrawals from the search and recovery group's credit card. Video surveillance from ATMs helped lead to the arrest of Armentor, who's known Texas Equusearch founder Tim Miller for years. Armentor formerly dated Miller's 16-year-old daughter, ...

  • Breakthrough in Senate immigration talks announcement set for Thursday

    Senators seeking a solution to a deadlock over border security have reached a tentative agreement they believe could win the votes of a significant number of Republican lawmakers for the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform bill. Republican Sens. John Hoeven and Bob Corker have been working on an amendment to the Gang bill that would satisfy Republicans who say the legislation as ...

  • Immigration reforms fate could hinge on border-security amendment

    As talks progressed Wednesday on a compromise border security amendment, Senate negotiators appeared to have hit a crucial sticking point that, if not resolved, could undercut the viability of the "Gang of Eight" immigration-reform package. Republicans who could support the overall bill but who are unhappy with its current border security provisions want Congress to spell out an ...

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Drive

Drive

Drive, which won Nicolas Winding Refn the Best Director prize at Cannes last spring, is a sharply etched, finely tuned homage to the existential road movies of the 1970s like Vanishing Point (1970) and Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) in which the nature of human existence was fuse ... ...

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  • Mexican-American scholar tells Del Mar College students that fight for equality is not over

    Nadia Tamez-Robledo/Caller-Times Jose Angel Gutierrez, a founding member of La Raza Unida Party and political science professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, speaks Wednesday at Del Mar College. Jose Angel Gutierrez was a founding member of La Raza Unida ...

  • Alice police department dispatchers bring supplies to Oklahoma tornado victims

    CORPUS CHRISTI -- As an Alice police department dispatcher, Tracey Gonzalez said she doesn't often get the opportunity to help people like officers do when they're out on patrol. That's why she and her co-worker Leonor Ochoa, 32, decided to collect toiletries, baby food and pet food for the residents in Moore, Okla., who were affected by a tornado that hit the city last ...

  • Durrill family donates $25000 to Fallen Heroes Memorial at Nueces County Courthouse

    CORPUS CHRISTI -- Philanthropist Dusty Durrill and his son Bill on Wednesday announced a $25,000 donation to begin a memorial planned for the Nueces County Courthouse to fallen law enforcement and first responders. The donation, made through the Devary Durrill Foundation, gives planners a strong start in raising the estimated $175,000 needed to finish the Fallen Heroes Memorial. Planners ...

  • CP3 behind renewed Doc talks JUN 20

    Clippers are back on. On the day that Doc Rivers and C's president of basketball operations Danny Ainge were supposed to sit down and discuss his future, once again that future may result in Rivers emerging as the new coach of ...

  • Jackson returning to Lakers JUN 20

    Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak recently about the team and expects to have more moving forward. Jackson was careful not get into specifics of his conversation with Kupchak about ...

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