Mark David Mills to be ordained at First Christian Church Texas City
Mark David Mills will be ordained to Christian ministry at First Christian Church Texas City today at 3 p.m. The Texas City native, son of Rev David Mills and Doris Mills, graduated from Brite Divinity School. He and his wife Traci live in Wichita Falls where he serves as Resident Minister of Highland Heights Christian. Public invited. reception afterwards. childcare provided.
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Mark David Mills
First Christian Church
21St Street
Texas City
Mills
David
Doris Mills
Brite Divinity School
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth
Traci
Gareth
Gaelen
Asa
Wichita Falls
Mark
Highland Heights
David Mills
Eagle Pass Woman Seized With 80 Pounds Cocaine At Border
Customs inspectors found 36 packages containing 80 pounds of cocaine worth about 3.6 million hidden behind a seat in a Chevy S-10 pickup driven by 33-year-old Maria Guadalupe Jimenez, a U S citizen from Eagle Pass. She faces federal importation charges and awaits a magistrate hearing in Del Rio. the bust followed another Eagle Pass seizure that week.
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Maria Guadalupe Jimenez
U.S
Eagle Pass
Jimenez
del Rio
Jet makes emergency landing after pilot faints on flight
A Continental Airlines Boeing 777 bound for Paris from Houston diverted to Newark after the pilot passed out midflight. The first officer and later a relief pilot controlled the plane. 208 people were aboard. The captain regained consciousness and was taken to a hospital, with the flight resuming to Paris under a new captain.
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Continental Airlines
Paris
Houston
National Transportation Safety Board
Newark
Elizabeth
NTSB
Lottery scam targets Mainland residents via phone and mail
La Marque Police warn of a cross border lottery scam using telephone and direct mail to sell chances in foreign lotteries. Canada based operatives solicit U S consumers for abroad lotteries. ignore solicitations per FTC guidance. Report telemarketing fraud to the state attorney general or give foreign lottery materials to the postmaster.
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Canada
U.S
Australia
Europe
la Marque
Ed Goad
Goad
Federal Trade Commission
Good
Low pay drives nearly 1000 mental health jobs vacant in Texas
Austin officials cite low salaries as the primary cause of about 1,000 vacancies for aides, therapy technicians, and direct care staff at the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation. Turnover rose from 17.6 percent in 1999 to nearly 19 percent in 2000, as departments face budget pressures with a $5.1 billion state surplus offset by overruns.
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Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
Andrew Hardin
Texas Board of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services
Fort Worth
Ratliff
Catherine Mosbacher
Hardin
Statewide turnover in Texas full time staff hits 18.9 percent
A December 2000 audit reports the FY2000 turnover rate for full time classified state employees at 18.9 percent up from 17.6 in 1999. Turnover costs total about 262 million dollars, driven by education social services medical health and criminal justice roles. The aging workforce and aggressive private sector pay threaten retention, with 12 000 retirees eligible in FY2001 and over 24 000 by 2005.
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Gary Anderson
Texas Public Employees Association
Texas
Bill Ratliff
Senate Finance Committee
Texas spaceport supporters press for state funds
Officials in Kenedy County led a lobbying drive to secure 19 million dollars for infrastructure and about 3 million for environmental studies as part of a 50 million spaceport trust fund. The plan aims to attract a reusable launch site to Texas, with Kenedy, South Texas, Brazoria County, and Pecos County in contention alongside national sites for Lockheed Martin VentureStar.
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Sarita
Texas
Kenedy County
Brazoria
Houston
Pecos
South Texas
Gene Seaman
Corpus Christi
Waxahachie
Judy Hawley
D-Portland
Texas Aerospace Commission
Austin
Kenedy
Florida
Pecos County
Lockheed Martin
VentureStar
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Texas City Sun
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