H E B Odessa expansion includes drive-thru pharmacy pit stop
H E B plans a new Odessa store with a drive-thru pharmacy and a Texas Front Porch area selling furnishings and plants, aiming to open as early as late 2015, with a preview party set for July 16. The project sits on 9.75 acres with a nearly $16 million cost and will hire 500 plus workers as renovations transform nearby Albertsons into Market Street stores in Odessa and Midland.
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Loop 250
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Randy Ver Steeg
Albertsons
Market Street
United Family
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Military ships live anthrax by mistake found in shipments
The CDC is probing an inadvertent shipment of live anthrax spores from Dugway Proving Ground Utah to government and commercial labs in as many as nine states plus one overseas eight other states may have received live spores. One Maryland lab has confirmed receipt and no public risk or infections reported.
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Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Pentagon
CDC
Kathy Harden
Steve Warren
Dugway Proving Ground
Utah
Warren
Maryland
Dugway
Texas
Wisconsin
Delaware
New Jersey
Tennessee
New York
California
Virginia
Police opposition stalls open carry handgun bill
Fierce opposition from police across Texas derailed a bill allowing open carry on the streets. The measure looked ready to pass the House and go to Gov. Abbott but law enforcement groups pressed to remove a provision limiting police questioning of people carrying weapons. Lawmakers moved to negotiate a new version with the Senate.
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Texas
Greg Abbott
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Senate
Unattended death under investigation in Odessa home
Police responded to a welfare check on Pine Avenue after a neighbor reported water flow and a foul smell. A Black man in his 30s or 40s was found dead, autopsy planned in Tarrant County, with police not suspecting foul play or suicide. The faucet was running and about 30 vehicles crowded the block.
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Steve LeSueur
Odessa
Pine Avenue
LeSueur
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Miller cites 2013 Indian deaths in Qatar and media suppression
The piece claims about 218 Indian nationals died in Qatar in 2013 while working on games projects and alleges the Indian Embassy reports these figures. It accuses the Qatar government of detaining journalists and deleting footage critical of the games' construction. It contrasts this with calls for a boycott and critiques American attention to FIFA and soccer.
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Qatar
NFL
Roger Goodell
U.S
FIFA
House OKs family department bill without gay adoption limits
The Texas House approved a bill reorganizing the Department of Family and Protective Services in a 146 to 0 vote. Conservatives planned to attach an amendment to shield religiously objecting child agencies from lawsuits over gay and same sex adoptions, but the measure moved forward without such limits.
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Oks Family Department
Austin
Texas
Department of Family and Protective Services
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