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Combs Honors Local Governments for Financial Transparency During Abilene Event (AUSTIN) — During a visit to Abilene today, Texas Comptroller Susan Combs recognized the Wylie Independent School District, the city of Abilene and Taylor County for meeting high standards in fiscal transparency. Wylie ISD received gold status ....

	MENSAJE SEMANAL: Presidente Obama: “La reforma de Wall Street le dará mayor seguridad a la.... WASHINGTON – En su mensaje semanal, el Presidente Barack Obama habló sobre las maneras en que la reforma de Wall Street mejorará comunidades comunes y corrientes en todo Estados Unidos. La medida de reforma ante el Congreso les otorgará poder y ....

Obama Picks Kagan WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama introduced Solicitor General Elena Kagan on Monday as his choice to become the nation’s 112th justice of the Supreme Court, hailing her as a “one of the nation’s foremost legal minds,” as he girded for a battle o....

TWO FERRY ENGINES FAILED AFTER CRASH, ENGINEER SAYS NEW YORK – The chief engineer aboard the Staten Island ferry that rammed into a pier on Saturday told federal investigators that no engine alarms sounded before the crash, at which point two of the ferry’s four engines failed, officials said on Sun....

	ALONG GULF, MANY WARY OF PROMISES AFTER SPILL GULFPORT, Miss. – People who live along the Gulf Coast know that a promise of money is not nearly as nice as it sounds. It means waiting and waiting, and raising a fuss, and then waiting some more, and consulting lawyers and talking to bureaucrats,....

	ROAD TRIPPING THROUGH THE DEEP HEART OF TEXAS Cutting plumb through the heart of Texas, U.S. 281 runs from the arid plains of Wichita Falls at the Oklahoma border to the humid confines of Brownsville at the mouth of the Rio Grande. For most of its winding journey, it proves little more than th....

	LAW OFFICERS ASK FOR U.S. FUNDS TO BOLSTER SECURITY ON U.S.-MEXICO BORDER WASHINGTON – Federal and state law enforcement officials told a Senate panel Wednesday that more federal funding is needed to help combat crimes linked to Mexico-based drug cartels and U.S. street gangs. Donald Reay of the Texas Border Sheri....

Texas lawmaker says gambling discussion should be out in open AUSTIN, Texas -- The worse the budget situation in Texas, the more you’ll hear talk about whether the state should expand gambling. And so here we are. Rep. Jim Dunnam, D-Waco, called this week for the creation of a House committee to study gamblin....

Earthquake sounded like tornado, followed by bomb, survivor says ATLANTA -- It sounded like a tornado, followed by a bomb dropping. Then the noise under the ground started, Frantz Florestal said. The metro Atlanta man was in his great-grandmother’s house, one that’s more than 100 years old, in Port-au-Prince, Ha....

MEXICO DEALS A BLOW TO A TOP DRUG GANG BUT WARNS OF CONTINUED DRUG VIOLENCE Antonio Betancourt contributed reporting. Byline: ELISABETH MALKIN New York Times News MEXICO CITY – Even by the gruesome standards of Mexico’s drug lords, Arturo Beltran Leyva’s capacity for violent revenge was especially brazen, officials in ....

MEXICO DEALS A BLOW TO A TOP DRUG GANG BUT WARNS OF CONTINUED DRUG VIOLENCE Antonio Betancourt contributed reporting. Byline: ELISABETH MALKIN New York Times News MEXICO CITY – Even by the gruesome standards of Mexico’s drug lords, Arturo Beltran Leyva’s capacity for violent revenge was especially brazen, officials in ....

SUSPECT KNEW WAR HORROR, AND HIS OWN FEAR © 2009 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON – Born and reared in Virginia, the son of immigrant parents from a small Palestinian town near Jerusalem, he joined the Army right out of high school, against his parents’ wishes. The Army, in turn, put....

ÔBAMA’S PRIZE COMPLICATES A PRESIDENCY IN SEARCH OF SUCCESSES Byline:ADAM NAGOURNEY© 2009 New York Times News ServiceWASHINGTON ‚ President Barack Obama is given to big events at big moments, replete with stirring speeches, lofty backdrops and stadium-size crowds.But when Obama walked into the Rose Garden on ....

TEXAS GOVERNOR RACE TURNS REPUBLICANS AGAINST EACH OTHER Byline: JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. © 2009 New York Times News Service HOUSTON – Gov. Rick Perry looks as if he stepped out of a Marlboro billboard: square-jawed, weathered face, a shock of black hair, steely eyes. He even says "howdy" when he enters the....

FIRST REPORTED AMERICAN DEATH FROM SWINE FLU New York Times BROWNSVILLE, Texas ‚ A Texas schoolteacher became the first American to die as a consequence of the new swine flu, Texas health officials said Tuesday. The 33-year-old woman from Harlingen, near the Mexico border, had a pre-existi....