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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 ...

Movie Review

Rumble in the Bronx (Hong Faan Kui)

Even if you could overlook the lame slapstick comedy, the stilted, poorly dubbed dialogue, stolen diamonds that look like glass marbles, the producers' attempt to pass off a Canadian location crested with scenic mountains as the Bronx, and the fact that the only sympathy in the film comes from gangsters beating on a whiny kid in a wheelchair, "Rumble in the Bronx" would still be a bad movie. Ever ... ...

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  • A year after West Nile plagued Texas aerial spraying a new tool to combat virus

    CORPUS CHRISTI -- A year after West Nile virus ravaged Texas and infected seven people in Corpus Christi, the city and county are eyeing a new tool to prevent the spread of the mosquito-born disease: aerial spraying. Aerial spraying hasn't been used in Corpus Christi, meaning the health district in recent years relied on truck spraying to tackle the virus, said Corpus Christi Police ...

  • Obesity is a disease not just problem

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - Patricia Carangi keeps very busy. She says she's like many others who find it difficult to get to the gym on a daily basis. "Some people live a busy lifestyle and their kids," said Carangi. "They're consumed with their daily lives with work and they just don't have time to take care of themselves." Carangi says losing weight has been difficult for ...

  • HOAs to allow water efficient landscapes

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - In a move to increase water conservation, theres a new law that keeps home owner associations (HOA) from banning water-efficient landscaping. Governor Perry signed the legislation, SB 198, Friday. A HOA can still require approval before switching landscapes and they can set guidelines on what kind of plants are ok as long as they don't "unreasonably restrict" ...

  • Bus company owner faces charges from 2008 crash

    A federal jury on Tuesday convicted former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi on more than a half dozen corruption charges accusing him of using his office for personal financial gain and looting a family insurance business to help pay for his 2002 ...

  • LS Power NRG add new generation in time to meet Texas power use

    HOUSTON, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:08pm EDT HOUSTON, June 19 (Reuters) - The Sandy Creek coal plant has begun operating in McLennan County, a year later than planned after the boiler was damaged during initial testing, an LS Power official said this week. The 925-megawatt coal-fired plant, one of only a few new coal plants being completed across the country, has come online in time ...

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