HeartsWay Hospice of Northeast Texas opens Travis Street office (The Marshall News Messenger)
February 3rd, 2008HeartsWay Hospice of Northeast Texas has been "caring from the heart since 1984."
Broussard, Omon shine in Texas vs. Nation game (The Joplin Globe)
February 3rd, 2008
EL PASO, Texas — Missouri Southern senior Alley Broussard scored a touchdown and Northwest Missouri’s Xavier Omon won game MVP honors as Texas beat a team of seniors from around the nation 41-14 in an all-star game Saturday at Sun Bowl Stadium.
Blades end road trip with 4-1 loss to Texas (OurSports Central)
February 2nd, 2008
BEAUMONT, TX - The Florida Everblades (24-18-4) suffered their third straight defeat as the Texas Wildcatters (35-4-7) engineered a come-from-behind 4-1 victory on Saturday night at Ford Arena in front of a crowd of 2,111. The win was the seventh straight for the Wildcatters.
Stobo to resign as UTMB president (Galveston County Daily News)
February 2nd, 2008
GALVESTON — University of Texas Medical Branch President John Stobo on Wednesday announced that he would leave his post in 11 months. When he goes, he’ll have run the institution for almost a decade.
Insurance chief defends workers’ comp against critics (The Register-Herald)
February 2nd, 2008
Critics in the Legislature portray the office of Insurance Commissioner Jane Cline as an agency bent on denying injured West Virginia workers just compensation for their job-related wounds.
MCT Credit Union holding vote on changing deposit insurer (Port Arthur News)
February 2nd, 2008
MCT Credit Union has proposed changing from the National Credit Union Administration, an independent federal agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions, to American Share Insurance. ASI is out of Ohio and is a private insurance company that provides primary and excess share, or deposit, insurance exclusively to credit unions.
Give poor children their CHIPs back (Galveston County Daily News)
February 2nd, 2008
State Rep. Craig Eiland doesn’t miss much. He recently collected data that show just how susceptible the University of Texas Medical Branch is to state policy changes.
Texas man awarded $275,000 settlement in police brutality case (The Ascension Citizen)
February 1st, 2008
A Texas man's Federal lawsuit alleging police brutality and excessive force by the Sorrento Police Department in May 2004 was dismissed Jan. 25 when both parties agreed to a $275,000 settlement, according to the man's attorney, Andre Gauthier of Gonzales.
McCain Needed Life Insurance To Get Loan (CBS News)
February 1st, 2008
By last November, John McCain's campaign was broke. To survive, he offered his fundraising lists as collateral for a $3 million line of credit from a local bank. But the loan also required an unusual extra step, the Washington Post reports.
Expanding health coverage for children (Waxahachie Daily Light)
February 1st, 2008
With little fanfare, in late 2007, Congress extended the current State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for 15 months. The development was good for Texas, and it’s worth reviewing how it happened.
