But 600 miles west in Texas a drought was taking hold and wildfires raged.
In Texas a hospital must spend 4% of its revenue on charity care to stay nonprofit.
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Such gerrymandering can be extremely partisan when the majority party in a legislature draws districts that favour its candidates, as the Republicans did in Texas a decade ago.
In a huge win for backers of biofuels, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today denied a closely watched request to grant Texas a 50% waiver from a federal renewable fuel standard mandate.
When I'm governor, Texas will be a better place to live, Texas will be a better place to work, and Texas will be a better place to raise our children, so help me God.
In the case of Texas, other Big 12 Conference schools objected when they learned, thanks to a radio interview with an ESPN representative, the Longhorn Network planned to show high school football games, fearing that would give Texas a recruiting advantage.
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All of this would be impossible to prevent because if a California resident, for example, sued that Texas company in a California court, the Texas company remove the case to its home state citing the clause in the contract indicating all disputes were to be settle according to Texas law in a Texas court.
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Nidal Hasan, awaiting trial after a 2009 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, passed a background check to buy a pistol at a Texas gun shop even though he was on terrorism investigators' radar for contacting a radical Islamist cleric.
DECATUR, Texas (AP) Shell casings from a Texas shootout with a white supremacist Colorado parolee are the same make and caliber as those found at the home of Colorado's prison chief after he was killed, according to legal papers.
"There used to be jokes about how a Democrat in Texas was a moderate Republican in Connecticut, " she says.
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In addition, they searched a home in Texas of a man whose name is similar to two hijackers, possibly a relation, and possibly the destination of these two other men.
This idea came from a bill written by a Texas Republican and a Massachusetts Democrat.
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One of the kidnapped Americans is a Texas man, a family member told CNN.
Ms. Barret, an avant-garde fashion designer herself, has traveled to a Texas ranch and a Polish castle seeking artists and design concepts.
If the materials are wildly ambitious and the prices insanely high, if these antler chairs and petrified bark tables are scaled for a Texas oligarch or a Middle Eastern potentate, Owens merely shrugs.
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Ironically enough, when Colt went into bankruptcy in 1844, a Texas Ranger named Walker met with Samuel Colt and helped him redesign the Texas Paterson as a heavier model called the Colt Walker.
Nearly a decade before internet-sensation Groupon gave consumers everywhere an opportunity to leverage the power of group purchasing, a small outfit in Texas provided a massively-scaled up version of this power to many of the largest electric utilities in North America.
Yet much of the writing seems undigested or glib ("Corruption is why we win, " a Texas oilman tells a lawyer) and self-enchanted in its depiction of an American government -- read the Bush administration -- willing to do anything to anyone for the sake of oil.
In order to compete a bit with Texarkana, Texas, a 1977 Arkansas law exempts Texarkana, Arkansas, from the Arkansas state income tax.
With his planned 1999 startups -- a publication for paralegals in Texas and a nationwide daily for dealmakers -- Pollak is entering riskier territory.
While working at a free clinic in Galveston, Texas, a city with over 50% of its population uninsured, Vineet observed that patients kept coming back to the clinic primarily due to stress, diabetes, and depression.
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Last August, Wilson, a law student at the University of Texas and a radical libertarian and anarchist, announced the creation of an Austin-based non-profit group called Defense Distributed, with the intention of creating a firearm anyone could fabricate using only a 3D printer.
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But both analysts and lawyers warn that using the first trial as a harbinger of what is to come is a risky strategy for investors, because Texas is a particularly plaintiff-friendly venue and a long process of appeals could result in a sharp reduction in the award's size.
But both analysts and lawyers still warn that using the first trial as a harbinger of what is to come is a risky strategy for investors, because Texas is a particularly plaintiff-friendly venue and a long process of appeals could result in a sharp reduction in the award's size.
Smaller outfits seldom have much of a cushion to buy extra feed, and Texas had a nasty drought last summer, too.
After Pierzynski's first homer for Texas, a two-out solo shot in the fourth that made it 2-1, Mitch Moreland pulled a 428-foot shot deep into the Texas bullpen in right-center field.
Some seek escape in their careers, but that is no longer an option for Leon, who early this year was forced to step down as a juvenile probation officer in Travis County, Texas, a position he had held for almost seven years.
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The dictator is obsessed with a coming visit from the Texas senator, whom he plans to humiliate in ways large (by lavishy reconstructing a Texas ranch, where hundreds of child gymnasts will perform) and small (engineers are instructed to produce a .46-caliber revolver, to one-up the classic American firearm).
Texas was a battleground for the tort reform movement in the 1990s, with pro-business conservatives eventually winning control of the Texas Supreme Court and reversing the state's image as a haven for plaintiff lawyers with exotic new theories of damage.
WACO, Texas (AP) President Barack Obama consoled a rural Texas community rocked by a deadly fertilizer plant explosion, telling mourners Thursday they are not alone in their grief and they will have the nation's support to rebuild from the devastation.
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