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Boeheim on Melos title hopes Not on that team MAY 21
07:10 AM ET 05.21 | His former head coach has picked a side, and it's squarely in the corner of his one-time star forward. Jim Boeheim maintains little hope that former Syracuse ...
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Muhammad believes hes the best player in the draft MAY 21
07:09 AM ET 05.21 | While Shabazz Muhammad's draft stock may be slipping in some circles, he certainly hasn't lost any faith in himself. [The] weeks leading up to the June 27 draft will be about altering negative perceptions about his character and his game. "Being the number one guy, everybody wants you to fall," Muhammad said last week at the NBA draft combine in Chicago. ...
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Lakers chief rivals for Howard MAY 21
Dwight Howard 's version of The Decision. The pitches he will get after the second leg of this journey, the ones that will likely come from Houston, Dallas and Atlanta, among others (after July 1), will no doubt be very different. And yes, he intends to listen to those pitches, and no, he won't give ...
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Jackson wants Jack back ... but business is business MAY 21
Jarrett Jack . "As a coach I value everything that he did for this basketball team and not just on the basketball floor but off. He was incredible, he was a great leader, he as a voice, he was a big time competitor, he was a winner, he plays with an edge. He was instrumental in everything we did. I heard Bob talk about it earlier' being he's a free agent, it's not just about ...
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RunTex owes lender $625000 lawsuit claims
Paul Carrozza Austin-based RunTex Inc.'s money woes are becoming more complicated, as a lender alleges it is owed $625,000, and has filed a lawsuit to ensure it collects that money prior to the landlord of the shuttered flagship store receiving his funds a $150,000 judgment. Court records indicate that Run-Tex Lending LLC composed of "local fans of the brand" wanting to help the ...
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Lockheed Martins F-35 will go operational a year early
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will go operational in 2016. The Fort Worth-made F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will be in operational use by the U.S. Air Force in mid-2016, a year ahead of schedule. Reuters reported that the Air Force said the plane will operate with a software package similar to that of the U.S. Marine Corp., meaning it will be slightly less capable than. and will ...
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UTSA recruits Mexicos former chief demographer to faculty
Dr. Ren Zenteno has agreed to join the University of Texas at San Antonio faculty as a professor of demography. He formerly served as undersecretary of population, migration and religious affairs at the Ministry of the Interior in Mexico. University of Texas at San Antonio officials said late Monday that Dr. Ren M. Zenteno, the former undersecretary of population, migration and religious affairs ...
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Six dead in Texas storms
Illustration. A powerful storm that may have spawned tornados ripped through northern Texas, killing six people and injuring more than 100, media reports said. (AFP/Don ...
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Vodafone will keep $3.2B payout from Verizone Wireless
Vodafone owns a 45 percent share of Verizon Wireless. Vodafone plans to keep the $3.2 billion dividend it was paid by Verizon Wireless and will use the cash to offset a drop in its quarterly revenue. Vodafone owns a 45 percent share of Verizon Wireless, with Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) owning the other 55 percent. Verizon has operations throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area, ...
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Help could be available for uninsured West losses
WEST, Texas (AP) -- Disaster help may be available for losses not covered by insurance in a Central Texas town recovering from a fertilizer plant ...
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Texas search team to help after Okla. twister
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Members of an elite search and rescue team from Texas have been dispatched to Oklahoma to help with recovery following a deadly ...
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Texas arrest of suspect in Nashville homicide
Eric Lozano, who is 31 years old and from Lyford, was arrested Monday night in the killing of Mitchel T. Moreno in a Nashville motel room. Moreno was 52 and was from the Denmark community in Madison County, ...
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More tornadoes in forecast for central US Tuesday
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- More severe weather is in the forecast for parts of the central United States already reeling from powerful tornadoes this ...
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Texas hosting sales tax holiday on Energy Star products
Texas shoppers will be able to buy select Energy Star-rated appliances tax free from May 25 through May 27. Texas Comptroller Susan Combs reminded shoppers this week that the states annual Energy Star Sales Tax Holiday is this weekend from Saturday, May 25 through Monday, May 27. Consumers will be able to buy Energy Star-qualified air conditioners priced at $6,000 or less; refrigerators at ...
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More oil pipeline capacity planned for Texas
A 95-mile pipeline extension from western Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle will carry as much as 75,000 barrels of oil per day, a pipeline company said. Plains All American Pipeline announced it was building a 95-mile extension for an Oklahoma crude oil pipeline system to accommodate expansions in production from the region. "The new Western Oklahoma pipeline will provide up to 75,000 ...
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Letter to the Editor Outraged by Benghazi response
If you've been admiring Hillary Clinton up to this point, I'd say you are grossly misinformed about who she really is. To those of us who've watched her and her political machine over the last 20 yeas, her actions on Benghazi come as absolutely no surprise whatsoever. She is an arrogant, black hearted narcissist like her husband, who treats 'underlings' (particularly ...
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Softbank plans record $3.9B bond sale in pursuit of Sprint bid
SoftBank plans a $3.9 billion bond issuance while pursuing its bid for Sprint Nextel. SoftBank Corp. said it intends to issue bonds in June to raise $3.9 billion as the Japanese company remains under pressure from Sprint Nextel Corp. shareholders to raise its bid for the third-largest wireless carrier in the U.S. The Wall Street Journal reported that Softbank Corp.'s move comes as Sprint ...
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Unnecessary Breast Biopsy Surgery Performed On More Than One Third Of Texas Women Diagnosed With A Breast Mass
Many women in Texas who are found to have an abnormality on routine mammogram or discover a lump in one of their breasts end up having an old-fashioned surgical biopsy to find out whether the breast abnormality is malignant. Since 2001, national expert panels have recommended that the first course of action for women ...
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Trial begins in international custody case
NASHVILLE, Tenn.-A trial begins Tuesday that could determine which country will decide the fate of 13-year-old twin boys at the center of an international custody battle that extends from Eastern Europe to Middle Tennessee. The boys are American citizens who were born in Texas but have spent the majority of their lives in Hungary. Their father is an American citizen with family in the Cottontown ...
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NE Texas expects severe storms possible tornadoes
DALLAS-Forecasters expect a stormy day across North Texas and East Texas as another day of severe thunderstorms are expected to make it into the Dallas-Fort Worth area. A layer of warm air over the area had limited storm development in much of North Texas over the past two days. That layer is expected to dissipate on Tuesday, allowing storms and isolated tornadoes to develop. Storms have ...
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Forensic scientists exhume Brooks County graves in hopes of reunited unidentified bodies with loved ones
TODD YATES/CALLER-TIMES Lori Baker with the Baylor University and members of her team, students Audrey Murchland, 20, and Marissa Salley, 21, (left to right) catalog a set of bones after they were exhumed Monday from Sacred Heart Burial Park in Falfurrias. The forensic team from the university made up of students and professors are taking the unclaimed bodies back to Baylor for DNA testing in ...
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Texas Medicaid Debate Complicated By Politics And Poverty
- black birds - perched on the tops of palm trees swell to a noisy, unavoidable cacophony. That is also the strategy, it could be said, that local officials, health care providers and frustrated Valley residents are trying to use to convince Governor Rick Perry and state Republican lawmakers to set aside their opposition and expand Medicaid, a key provision of the federal health law. The Rio ...
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Memphis Grizzlies Zach Randolph spurred on to do better against San Antonio
Memphis Grizzlies ' blowout loss in Game 1 of the NBA Western Conference finals. No one on either team expects him to play so poorly for the rest of the series. As ...
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Austin Seferian-Jenkins pretrial hearing postponed until July | Northwest roundup
Washington tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins, who was charged with misdemeanor driving under the influence in April, had a pretrial hearing in Seattle Municipal Court on Monday postponed until July 1. Defense attorney Bill Kirk asked for the delay and a release of $1,000 bail on the condition that Seferian-Jenkins abstain from drinking and not drive without an ignition interlock device. ...
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Norris rested ready for turn against Royals
Astros pitcher Bud Norris could have taken his regular turn in the rotation on Sunday in Pittsburgh after leaving a May 13 start against the Tigers with back spasms. However, manager Bo Porter didn't want to take a chance, though, by pitching Norris in a National League park where he would have had to also swing the bat. Instead, the 28-year-old right-hander will take the mound on Tuesday ...
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San Antonio planning facelift for downtown
River North is widely considered to be one of the most rundown, neglected and unsafe areas of the city. It has stood for years at the edge of downtown like a blight on the conscience of San Antonio, reminding city officials and the community constantly that something must be done. But, finding the money to proceed with a redevelopment project has proven difficult, until recently.
River North will be entirely overhauled in a new project that aims to revamp the area and make it an integral part of the life and culture of the city’s core, rather than a ghost town that people avoided at all costs. The project is finally underway following the injection of over US$24 million in funding for the overhaul. Read more
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