Dallas opens state's first publicly funded subway station
Dallas unveils a $50 million underground rail hub 120 feet beneath Cityplace at Lemmon Ave and Central Expressway. The station serves about 1,700 riders daily, linking North Dallas to downtown via two 30 mile tunnels. It features a 213-step descent, escalators, and glassed-in elevators.
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Lone Star State
Mississippi
Sammy Walter
DART
Morgan Lyons
Lyons
Central Expressway
John Crabaugh
Cityplace
7-Eleven Inc
O Hair kidnapping trial set for January start
A man charged in the disappearance of atheist Madalyn Murray O Hair and her family will go on trial January 29. David Waters, 53, faces a five count federal indictment alleging kidnapping in a plot tied to their presumed slaying. He already serves lengthy sentences in state and federal custody and investigators believe the bodies were dismembered and dumped in Texas Hill Country.
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Madalyn Murray O'Hair
David Waters
O' Hair
Waters
Texas Hill Country
Jury awards $117 million to family of blast victim
A Harris County jury ordered Phil lips now owned by Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. to pay about $7 million in damages and $110 million in punitive damages for the June 1999 explosion at Phillips Houston Chemical Complex that killed Juan Martinez Jr. and Jose Inez Rangel. State law may reduce the punitive amount. appeals are planned.
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Juan Martinez Jr
Kenneth Tekell
Martinez
Jose Inez Rangel
Kresin
Phillips’ Houston Chemical Complex
Houston Ship Channel
Chevron Phillips
Young Texas elector becomes state’s youngest mayor
Austin AP report notes 22-year-old Tye Thomas cast Texas’s 31st GOP vote for George W. Bush as the state’s youngest elector. He is mayor of Gun Barrel City near Cedar Creek Lake and owns twoEast Texas newspapers. Thomas envisions a future run for state representative. His rise mirrors a tight student body election from his freshman year at Johnson & Wales University.
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Thomas
East Texas
Mohank
Johnson & Wales University
Providence
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