By Jeremy Desel at KHOU News, Houston
The city of Houston will consider furloughs for police officers and firefighters as it weighs options to save money, Houston Mayor Annise Parker said in a letter released Wednesday.
“The letter was not a surprise to us,” said Gary Blankenship, the president of the Houston Police Officer’s Union. “We [...]
By Tanya Eiserer, Nancy Visser, and Aida Ahmed in The Dallas Morning News
By this afternoon, business owners had already begun planning their rise from the ashes. The fire broke out about 5:45 a.m. in the 2800 block of Greenville Avenue. Within an hour, it burned through four restaurants in the 1930s-era building, including mainstays Terilli’s [...]
Video and story by Cynthia Vega and Marjorie Owens at WFAA News, Dallas
Photos of fire from WFAA
About 60 Dallas Fire-Rescue firefighters have taken control of a four-alarm fire that ate its way through at least four businesses on lower Greenville Avenue in the early morning hours.
The blaze started at 5:45 a.m. at Terilli’s Restaurant & [...]
From KCEN News in Waco Temple Killeen
A home was saved after catching fire Monday morning in Waco. The fire started just before 5:00am at a house on the corner of North 18th and Bosque Blvd. Most of the damage was limited to the attic and roof. The fire was caused by an electrical short.
One [...]
By Rudolph Bush in The Dallas Morning News
The city of Dallas’ top managers and representatives for Dallas police officers and firefighters have long met to hash out concerns about salary, benefits and workings conditions. But in a 12-1 vote Wednesday, the City Council for the first time formally approved “meet and confer” teams for management [...]
On Thursday morning, just minutes before a single-engine plane would plunge into the Echelon I building, the Travis County Hazardous Materials Team gathered in the parking lot of Dave and Buster’s at the intersection of U.S. 183 and MoPac Boulevard (Loop 1). Jeremy Schwartz : Austin Statesman
It was the first time the team, made up [...]
By Tony Plohetski in The Austin American-Statesman
Photo by Ralph Barrera in The Austin American-Statesman
Photos of scene from Ralph Barrera in The Austin American-Statesman
Photos of house fire from The Austin American-Statesman
In what authorities describe as an apparent intentional act, a pilot flew a single-engine plane Thursday into a Northwest Austin office building that houses Internal Revenue [...]
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