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  • Missing Bham baby 14-year-old abductor found in Texas 19-year-old arrested

    The Alabama Department of Public Safety has issued a Missing Child Media Alert after a 2-month-old baby was allegedly taken by a 14-year-old girl early Monday morning from Birmingham. Police say ...

  • New housing development coming to area near Cowboy Stadium

    ARLINGTON — A local developer plans to tear down four aging apartment complexes in north Arlington, not far from the Ballpark in Arlington and Cowboy Stadium, and replace them higher quality, high-density ...

  • Judge orders new Texas school finance trial

    After hearing brief arguments from the state and the six parties in the case, Dietz announced that a new six-week trial would begin on Jan. 6 in the suit that was filed last summer after lawmakers cut roughly $5.4 billion from state public education funding in 2011 while the state simultaneously implemented a rigorous new testing and accountability ...

  • Panel OKs revisions to Eisenhower memorial designs

    A long-delayed memorial honoring Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed to be built just off the National Mall took a key step forward Wednesday, when a presidentially appointed panel unanimously approved revisions to the Frank Gehry-designed project. Several hurdles still must be cleared before ground can be broken on the massive memorial, which is more than a dozen years in the planning. But the ...

  • South Texas Botanical Gardens…

    TODD YATES/CALLER-TIMESVisitors at the South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center pass by the center’s new Monkey Mansion tree house during its official dedication ceremony Wednesday. The tree house is made of a 400-year-old oak tree trunk ...

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Ryder P.I. [DVD]

Ryder P.I. [DVD]

Ryder P.I. is an excruciatingly unfunny comedy about a couple of inept private detectives. The movie was an amateur production shot on video in the mid-1980s by a group of comedians from Long Island who couldn't break into movies any other way than to make one themselves. Unfortunately, no one involved in the production seems to have known anything about filmmaking or, more importantly, ho ... ...

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  • Board backs plan to spruce up Astrodome

    HOUSTON (AP) -- A county board has recommended converting Houston's historic but deteriorating Astrodome into a giant convention center and exhibition space. The Harris County Sports & Convention Corp. on Wednesday opted to go with its own plan for the world's first domed, air-conditioned stadium instead of one of 19 private-sector plans submitted for its reuse. The board says the ...

  • Food trucks all the rage in Austin

    food truck base. In fact, whole websites have even been built to showcase food trailers by cuisine, location, and even roving ones. In fact, even the Austin Chamber of Commerce has an entire section on how to apply for a food trailer ...

  • Board backs turning Astrodome into convention hall

    HOUSTON (AP) -- A county board has recommended converting Houston's historic but deteriorating Astrodome into a giant convention center and exhibition ...

  • FBI is using drones in America director tells Congress

    The Federal Bureau of Investigations employs the use of drones for surveillance on U.S. soil, the agency's director told lawmakers on Wednesday. At an oversight hearing conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI Director Robert Mueller admitted the agency is making use of unmanned aircraft, but he did not provide many details, other than to say the information obtained by the drones ...

  • Senate GOP says repeal of death tax must be part of tax reform

    Senate Republicans on Wednesday said that a repeal of the federal estate tax must be a key component of any tax reform proposal, setting up a showdown with President Obama, who hopes to raise the levy to help reduce the deficit. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Vice President Joe Biden negotiated in January to make permanent the current estate tax parameters as part of the ...

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