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Monday, May 26, 2008
HOUSTON—You were warned, and now it’s happened: Gas hit the $4 mark in Houston overnight.
The proof? A sign at a Shell gas station on Richmond and Chimney Rock selling regular unleaded for $4.04.
Fortunately, that’s well above the Houston average.
Monday morning, the average cost of regular unleaded in the city was $3.80 a gallon.
The state average is $3.82.
Though ... Read More
Thursday, May 22, 2008A former Del Valle school bus driver was sentenced to four months in prison Wednesday for soliciting a minor online, the Texas Attorney General's Office said.
Michael Richard Schweitzer, 56, of Cedar Creek, was charged with online solicitation of a minor after investigators with the attorney general's Cyber Crimes Unit say he sent explicit materials to someone he thought... Read More
Friday, May 16, 2008
Thousands of Austin residents Friday were still without power after a powerful hail storm swept through Central Texas Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
Traffic lights at the intersection of MoPac and Enfield Road were also down. Austin Energy crews have been working to restore service since the power went out. At one point there were nearly 40,000 customers without po... Read More
DAISETTA, Texas, May 8, 2008(AP) Regulators continued monitoring a massive sinkhole which has swallowed up oil field equipment, poles and some vehicles since surfacing just outside the southeast Texas community of Daisetta. There were no reports of injuries or of any homes being damaged early Thursday. Investigators with the Texas Railroad Commission were checking pipelines in the area and tryi... Read More
Texas may lead the US in violent crime, environmental pollution, dyslexic presidents and executions, but their legislators proved today that when it comes to putting the morality back into America, their hearts—or possibly their balls—are in the right place.Dirty old men in raincoats packed their bags and Adult webmasters threw themselves from skyscrapers as news broke that Texas h... Read More
ELLIS COUNTY — A Kaufman County Jail inmate escaped and led police on a high-speed chase through three counties early Wednesday. The unidentified inmate fled in a 2000 Mercury Grand Marquis around 6:30 a.m. and attempted to evade patrol cars on Interstate 20 and Interstate 45 before his vehicle's tires were disabled. The inmate tried to flee on foot after his car stopped near Ennis in... Read More
DALLAS - April 4, 2007 - A Dallas mom was shot after she happened upon burglars cleaning out her home and decided to go after them with her kids and all. When Bernadette Mata, 30, came home that day, she said she observed strange signs immediately. "I noticed the suburban parked right here on the side," she said. "The doors are open, there's a Hispanic guy loading up somethi... Read More
05:10 PM CDT on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 A preliminary autopsy has revealed that a man found dead inside a garbage truck in South Austin suffered injuries while inside the truck. A body was found in the trash compartment of a garbage truck, owned by a private company. The truck's driver found the body of Phillip Krause, 53, inside truck's trash compartment Monday morning near Slaughter L... Read More
February 12, 2007 - A pending bill before the Legislature has earned the backing of Austin's acting police chief as well as police chiefs from across Texas. They want to see thieves who break into cars face harsher punishment. Thieves break into thousands of vehicles in Austin every year. Thieves have stolen Walton Jones' car stereo twice. He likes the idea of harsher punishment. "... Read More
Jan 15, 2007 - Associated Press - www.moonpalace.com
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A burger battle is brewing between a Texas state legislator and the owners of Louis' Lunch, a restaurant established in 1895, where it has been claimed that the hamburger was invented.
However, with the new session of the Texas legislature now under way, Republican State Rep. Betty Brown has proposed a resolution de... Read More
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