Flu Shots Recommended! The chances of catching the flu may be the farthest thing from your mind, what with temperatures still in the triple digits. But local health ...[more]
Personal Income Up For McAllen The greater McAllen area saw a jump in personal income last year, even as personal income dropped in most other metro areas of the country. Personal income in the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission area grew 2-point-8 percent, according to the federal Bureau ...[more]
Florida Drug Bust Leads To Valley Man A cocaine bust in Tampa has led investigators to a 22-year-old Valley man, who they believe headed up a large-scale operation that ran drugs from the Valley to Florida. Authorities say they busted the ring after finding a load of cocaine concealed ...[more]
U.S. CBP Officers Seize Cocaine At Border U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Laredo Port of Entry seized more than 600-thousand-dollars worth of cocaine this week. Officers referred a 32-year-old woman from Richfield, Minnesota and her vehicle for a secondary examination. ...[more]
White House Keeping Close Eye On New Gulf Rig Blast The White House is keeping a close eye on the latest oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs said the blast occurred on a Mariner Energy rig about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay, Louisiana. Gibbs noted that the ...[more]
Hurricane Center Warns About Hurricane Earl Hurricane Earl could pack a wallop for some East Coast states like North Carolina. Bill Read, director of the National Hurricane Center, says the Category Four storm has top sustained winds of 145 miles an hour. The center of this powerful ...[more]
Bernanke Lays Out Main Causes Of Economic Crisis Banks too big to fail and huge losses from subprime mortgages were two main reasons for the severity of the economic crisis that began in 2008. That's what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission today in ...[more]
New Jobless Claims Decline For Second Straight Week New claims for unemployment benefits fell for the second straight week. The Labor Department reports there were 472-thousand initial claims last week, a drop of six-thousand from the previous week. In the week ending August 21st, the total number ...[more]
Israel, Palestinian Leaders Resume Direct Peace Talks For the first time in about two years, Israel and the Palestinians have formally opened direct peace talks. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed the leaders of both sides to the State Department and called the talks an important step. She ...[more]
Flight Delayed to Test Crew Member An American Airlines flight crew member was removed from a plane at DFW airport on Wednesday to be tested for alcohol consumption. The flight, bound for Cancun was set to leave at 4:30, but because of the incident with the crew member and the ...[more]
Successful Evacuation In Hostage Situation Officials with the Discovery Channel are thankful for the successful evacuation of their Silver Spring, Maryland headquarters yesterday when a gunman took three hostages in the building's lobby. A Discovery spokesman expressed relief that all ...[more]
Man Sentenced Over Letterman Blackmail Released The former television producer who tried to blackmail late-night talk-show host David Letterman is out of jail. The New York City Department of Corrections says Robert "Joe" Halderman was released from jail this morning. He served four months of ...[more]
Power Out In Many DFW Neighborhood Due To Storms Weather radars were flashing like pinball machine across North Texas this morning as a line of heavy thunderstorms rocked through Dallas-Fort Worth before dawn. Power was knocked out in many neighborhoods and hundreds of lightning strikes were ...[more]
Perry Says Energy Industry Helping State Economy Governor Rick Perry says the energy industry is helping the state economy lead the nation. Perry met with Baytown area plant managers at the Southeast Texas Plant Managers Forum in Nederland Wednesday to discuss Texas' economy and the role of the ...[more]
Austin Triathlon Traffic Expected On Labor Day If you're planning a trip to Austin for the Labor Day holiday, you can expect some possible traffic delays downtown near Lady Bird Lake on Monday. The AVIA Austin Triathlon will start on Auditorium Shores at 6:00 Monday morning with a swim in the ...[more]
NFL Wraps Up Exhibition Schedule Thursday The National Football League exhibition schedule comes to an end tonight, with each team seeing its final action ahead of Week One of the regular season. Sam Bradford, taken number-one overall in this year's draft by the Rams, will start for St. ...[more]
Boy Dies Of Rare Infection From Amoeba Public health officials in north Texas are reminding swimmers and skiers to take precautions to avoid infection from an amoeba in bodies of water across the state. An Arlington boy recently died after contracting the Naegleria fowleri amoeba in a ...[more]
Flu Shots Recommended!
