Conaway leading GOP bid in 11th District race fund reports
Campaign finance filings show Mike Conaway of Midland raising 293494 dollars and spending 126003 since last October, while opponent Bill Lester of Brownwood has 9520 raised and 31072 spent excluding a 100000 loan. The reports filed with the FEC precede the Republican primary and a later race against Wayne Rausch. Lester's donors include the Farm Bureau Ag Fund and several Brownwood residents. Conaway lists Midland contributors and PAC supports.
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Midland Way
Conaway
Bill Lester
Brownwood
Federal Election Commission
Washington, D.C
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Wayne Rausch
Lester
Texas Farm Bureau Ag Fund
S.B. Locker
JoAnn Graham
Ovilla
John Adcock
DeLeon
H.A. Bennett
Larry Henderson
Republican Party of Texas
Napa Auto Parts
Heritage Signs
Verizon Southwest
Apartment Association of
Alexandria
Texas Right To Life
San Angelo
J.W. Lown
Bert Massey
Odessa
Larry Melton
Midland
Mike Canon
Carter Casteel
Fredericksburg
Burnet County
David Kithil
Burnett County Farm Bureau
Bill Felps
Gillespie County
Pauline Cusack
Texas Medical Association
Texas Hospital Association
Marble Falls
San
Mexican national pleads guilty in immigrant deaths case
Mexican citizen Juan Fernando Licea-Cedillo, 26, pleaded guilty in Houston to conspiring to transport and harbor 11 undocumented immigrants found dead in a rail car near Denison Iowa. Authorities tie the case to a larger smuggling ring moving migrants from Latin America to the United States. the victims hailed from Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala. The plea could yield a life sentence.
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Licea- Cedillo
U.S. District Court
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Southern District of Texas
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United States
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U.S
Sarita
Union Pacific
Sioux City
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Nicaragua
Mexico
el Salvador
Guatemala
Licea-Cedillo
Texas
Odessa area to gain Telvista call center jobs plan
From 1B contact center at Parkway Industrial Park the 50 000 square foot building should be ready for occupancy in late May after which ODC will pay Telvista the remaining 1 42 million of a 2 85 million grant for creating 500 new jobs. The ODC also loaned Telvista 1 million with first payment due March 15. McDonald said Telvista officials have been in Odessa preparing to recruit employees and partners met to secure another 500 jobs. CDC reported a fund balance of 3 81 million and an excess of revenues over expenditures of 1 56 million. Sales tax receipts for four months ending January were 929 895 from a quarter cent tax, $52 025 over budget. January receipts were 201 904, $3 863 over budget.
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Telvista
Ace Sivalls
ODC Board
McDonald
Odessa
Permian Basin Workforce Development Board
Permian Basin Workforce Network Center
CDC
Hispanic voters slow to warm to state senate race
Times publisher Vicente Soto says lack of candidate outreach to Hispanics hampers engagement. He notes no ads in Hispanic TV channels or El Semanario and says Anglos view voting as a duty while Hispanics vote from the heart. Seliger and Edwards campaigns report minimal Hispanic media buys. Early voting ends at 7 p.m. today.
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Vicente Soto
Soto
Senate
Odessa
el Semanario
Seliger
Curt Besselman
Edwards
Hispano Times
Odessa Assaults and Threats Reported in Local Areas
An Odessa woman says someone she knows grabbed her and held a knife at 2 55 p m Wednesday in the 1000 block of North Graham Avenue. An Odessa man reports a pistol pointed at him and life threats at 9 08 p m Wednesday in the 1300 block of Lincoln Avenue.
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Study links spending to student performance in Texas
An AP report on a Texas A&M University study finds that about 6200 dollars per student annually is needed for a 55 percent pass rate on the TAKS exam. The study notes costs rise with district size, poverty, English learners, and special education needs, and cites geography and isolation as factors. Lawmakers expect a special session by April to overhaul Robin Hood funding as a July trial looms.
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Leticia van de Putte
D-San Antonio
Joint Select Committee On
Laura Taylor
George Bush School of Government and
Florence Shapiro
Rplano
Comene Enera Sons: Inc
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Arlington Republican
Joint
Select Committee On
Rick Perry
Texas
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Inmate spared minutes before Texas death warrant
Yokamon Hearn, 25, faced lethal injection for the 1998 killing of Frank Meziere, a Plano stockbroker abducted at gunpoint from a Dallas car wash. The 5th Circuit halted the execution hours before it could proceed, granting a late-appeal delay while setting an accelerated briefing schedule to avoid months of delay.
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Yokamon Hearn
Ing
Frank Meziere
Plano
Dallas
5Th
US. Circuit Court of Appeals
Lori Ordiway
Dallas County
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