Month: April 2009

The jury was dismissed

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The Texas Senate has adopted the $182.2 billion state budget for 2010-2011. The Senate voted 26-5 Wednesday to adopt the two-year budget, the most important bill lawmakers will consider during the [Read More…]

LUFKIN, Texas (AP) _ A former nurse has been charged with injecting 10 patients with bleach — killing five of them — at a dialysis center in Lufkin. Kimberly Saenz has been indicted by an [Read More…]

DALLAS (AP) _ A Dallas policeman who pulled his gun and threatened an NFL player with jail — and didn’t let him into a hospital where his mother-in-law was dying — has quit. Officer Robert [Read More…]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 emergency room visits in Central Texas over six years at a cost of $3 million to taxpayers and others. The patients — eight from Austin [Read More…]

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) _ The blizzard that blasted the Texas Panhandle with as much as a foot of snow last week claimed the lives of about 3,500 cattle. Ben Weinheimer of the Texas Cattle Feeders [Read More…]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Legislators are trying to rein in commissions paid to insurance agents who sell questionable or possibly bogus financial products to elderly Texans. The industry, including representatives of the maligned insurance giant [Read More…]

Blinn College is hosting an open house for anyone interested in a legal career. Click to hear WTAW’s Chris Clift talk with Legal Assisting

The Bryan Aquatic Center has been named one of the top aquatic programs in the United States. Click to hear WTAW’s Chris Clift talk with Recreation Manager Ashley Bennett: Press release from the City of [Read More…]

The CNBC “Squawk Box” financial and business information show is coming to the Texas A&M campus Thursday. Click to hear WTAW’s Chris Clift talk with Texas A&M spokesperson Lane Stephenson: Press release from Texas A&M: [Read More…]