State comptroller Combs shifts on tuition refunds
Texas Comptroller Susan Combs reverses policy and urges the Texas Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Board to preserve a generous refund formula for cancelations. She aims to halt new rules that would cut refunds, saying lawmakers should decide the issue in 2011 after discussions with legislators.
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Texas Receives About 2 Million Swine Flu Doses
Austin notes about 2 million H1N1 vaccine doses are allocated by the CDC. The Texas Department of State Health Services continues to order the full amount quickly as 1.5 million doses had already been ordered by Thursday. Around 12,000 Texas providers have registered to receive the vaccine and more orders will proceed as clinics confirm requests.
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Search resumes with aircraft aid in Friday morning
State briefs report Guard Petty Officer Charles Reaves told The Associated Press that a plane and a helicopter were part of the search effort that resumed shortly after 7 30 a.m. Friday.
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Associated Press
Clinic policy bars headscarf in job interview
A Muslim doctor from Plano says CareNow officials barred her hijab during a job interview at a Dallas area clinic. She recalls a no-hat policy extending to the headscarf and notes the regional director warned her before orientation. CareNow did not comment on the claim.
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Navy identifies two pilots missing off Gulf Coast
The U S Navy identified two instructor pilots missing since their plane disappeared Wednesday off the Texas coast. Lieutenant John Joseph Houston 29 of Houston and Lieutenant Bret Travis Miller 30 of East Troy Wisconsin were instructors with Training Squadron 28 at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. Rescue efforts resumed Friday morning as search crews looked for the trainer aircraft and crew.
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East Troy
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Three Indicted in El Paso Cartel Killing
An El Paso County grand jury indicted three men on capital murder charges in the contract killing of a fellow federal informant. Court records show the indictment names include the informant and two accomplices tied to cartel activity in the El Paso area.
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Former guard convicted in sex case at Texas youth school
James Allen Sullivan, 43, of Early, a former guard at a Brownwood Texas Youth Commission school, was convicted by a Brownwood jury on four counts of sexual assault involving three female students at the Ron Jackson Juvenile Justice Center. The assaults occurred between October 2003 and May 2004 in a dormitory storage closet. The penalty phase was set to begin Friday. Sullivan faces up to 20 years in prison.
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