Agencies Focus on Child Abuse Trauma in Permian Basin
Several Permian Basin agencies center their work on helping children cope with the trauma of abuse and neglect. Prosecutors in at least six states probe whether the gun industry punishes Smith and Wesson for a recent safety standard agreement.
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Smith and Wesson
Farm aid covers only 70 percent of crop loss claims
USDA said drought and weather disasters last year left farmers receiving about 70 percent of losses. About 260,000 producers collect up to 55,680 each from a $1.85 billion claims pool, with 1.3 billion appropriated. Texas led payments at 196.8 million. two installments covered 500 million earlier and 800 million later.
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Agriculture Department
Congress
USDA
America
Keith Kelly
Farm Service Agency
Texas
North Dakota
Georgia
California
North Carolina
Dog with wheelchair helps lives of injured pet
A dog severely injured in an accident now navigates life with a specially fitted wheelchair. His devoted owners saved him and plan to showcase his story this summer on Animal Planet's Pet Story.
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Jake
Animal Planet
Garza presses to end long unplugged wells policy
Texas Railroad Commission should limit extensions for unplugged wells to one year and require plug or pump after. Commissioner Tony Garza cites 15 600 wells unplugged two plus years, 6 400 five plus years, and calls the program a government funded bailout while noting leakage cases and bankruptcy pressures. He plans to present the idea at the April 11 meeting.
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Tony Garza
Garza
Texas Oil and Gas
Healthy Heart Center Rising at Fourth Street Site
Irwin Steel Erectors of Lubbock work on the main structure of the center at Fourth Street and Tom Green Avenue. Cooper Construction of Odessa aims for completion by Oct. 6. Dr. Suresh Gadasalli is constructing the facility for his heart specialty practice.
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Irwin Steel Erectors
Lubbock
Healthy Heart Center
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Tom Green Avenue
Cooper Construction
Odessa
Suresh Gadasalli
Observatory Director Views Planetary Alignment
E. C. Krupp, director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, peers through a telescope on a Tuesday. The observatory and many other sites offer views of the planetary alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and the moon visible today.
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Griffith Observatory
Los Angeles
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Mars
Planets to line up in rare May celestial event
In May 5 16 the sun and six planets including Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter and Saturn align. astronomers expect debunking of doomsday predictions rather than apocalypse. For now Mars Jupiter and Saturn will appear close together as a preview of the full configuration.
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Los Angeles
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
U S businessman arrested in Moscow on spying charges
Russian security service says a U S businessman and a Russian accomplice were arrested in Moscow amid a spy ring probe. The American, a former intelligence agent, worked for a private Moscow firm. U S officials provided limited confirmation pending legal steps.
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Moscow
Federal Security Service
Novosibirsk
Russia
Security Agency
Clinton warns of threats to bright economy at White House
President Clinton challenged Greenspan Gates and other top economists in a White House conference to forecast what could derail the booming economy. Greenspan cited worker shortages and a swelling trade deficit as risks while others warned of more rough times on Wall Street.
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Alan Greenspan
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