01/09/2009
Texas lawmaker proposes legislation for playoff (Sports Illustrated)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama and Texas congressman Joe Barton don't have much in common, but they do agree on one thing: the Bowl Championship Series must go.
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01/09/2009
Texas' plan for spending $1.3B in storm aid under attack (Houston Chronicle)
The Houston-Galveston region would receive more than three-quarters of $1 billion in federal funds under a preliminary plan to help Texas recover from Hurricanes Ike and Dolly.
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01/09/2009
Rating system may help Texas schools make grade (Houston Chronicle)
Fewer Texas schools are expected to earn failing marks from the federal government thanks to a more flexible rating system approved Thursday.
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01/09/2009
Texas & Southwest briefs (Dallas Morning News)
McALLEN, Texas – A federal judge sentenced four Rio Grande Valley residents to prison and probation for supplying guns purchased in the United States to Mexican drug cartels.
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01/08/2009
Thai police arrest Texas child sex abuse suspect (AP via Yahoo! News)
An American man wanted in Texas on child sex abuse charges was arrested Thursday in Thailand and could be sent to the U.S. within days, the district attorney's office in Houston said.
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01/09/2009
AP Top 25: Gators are No. 1, Utes No. 2, Texas 4th, TCU 7th (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By RALPH D. RUSSO Florida is No. 1 in the AP Top 25. Utah is perfect at No. 2, though not perfectly happy. Texas and Southern California also claimed to be the best - but media voters didn't think so. The Gators received 48 first-place votes and 1,606 points in the poll released early Friday, after they beat Oklahoma 24-14 in the BCS national title game. Utah, the only team in major college ...
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01/09/2009
Three Texas researchers are honored for work (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By GENE TRAINOR DALLAS — Three Texas researchers, including a biomedical scientist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, each received $25,000 prizes Thursday for their work in medicine and technology. U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, announced the awards during the annual meeting of the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas. The organization ...
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01/09/2009
North Texas disaster-preparedness effort gets $5 million grant (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
DALLAS — Four organizations that have worked together to host hurricane evacuees are trying to raise $26.7 million to feed and shelter North Texas residents, should disaster strike locally. On Thursday, they got off to a good start. The Communities Foundation of Texas announced the awarding of a $5 million, four-year grant to plan and provide resources for mass care and disaster relief in ...
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01/09/2009
Texas governor, businesses protest decision to award lab to Kansas (Dallas Morning News)
SAN ANTONIO – Texas Gov. Rick Perry joined business leaders on Thursday in protesting the decision by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to select a site in Kansas for a new $450 million federal disease laboratory.
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01/09/2009
Texas man who flees courtroom before being sentenced to probation gets 6-month jail term (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
FORT WORTH, Texas - A man who would have been on probation for his drug conviction will now have to spend six months in jail — all because he fled before hearing a jury's sentencing verdict.
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