Deer Park News

Veterans started lining up before 3 a.m. today at the Houston VA Regional Office, hoping to get one of the $3,000 emergency checks being issued today to thousands of student vets awaiting payments for books, housing and tuition under the new Post-9/11 GI Bill .

From a purely statistical perspective, we should not be shocked when a parent kills a child.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc will begin a planned shutdown today of a light/heavy olefins unit at its chemical plant at Deer Park, Texas, the company said in a filing to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

ELKHART LAKE, September 26, 2009: Juan Marchand, of South Haven, Mich., captured his first SCCA National Championship Saturday, winning the Formula Mazda race and SCCA Club Racing Super Sweep title at the SCCA National Championship Runoffs at Road America.

This is an excerpt from a newspaper story about Governor Perry's appearance before the combined chambers of commerce of Deer Park, Pasadena, and South Belt/Ellington. The e-mail from the Perry campaign says that it appeared in the Deer Park Broadcaster and the Pasadena Citizen : Perry acknowledged that Texas is not without its issues.

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Three East Texas community colleges report record enrollment this fall. Two colleges are celebrating anniversaries as well.

Two environmental groups have asked a federal court to force the reduction of harmful emissions at Chevron Phillips Chemical Co.'s largest plant.

The publisher and authors of a book about steroid use in major league baseball were sued today by a Texas man who says they falsely claimed he was "pushing" steroids to professional athletes and using his gym as a front for selling drugs, according to The Gibson Law Firm.

The publisher and authors of a book about steroid use in major league baseball were sued today by a Texas man who says they falsely claimed he was "pushing" steroids to professional athletes and using his gym as a front for selling drugs, according to The Gibson Law Firm.

The publisher and authors of a book about steroid use in major league baseball were sued today by a Texas man who says they falsely claimed he was "pushing" steroids to professional athletes and using his gym as a front for selling drugs, according to The Gibson Law Firm.

Shell Oil, part of Royal Dutch Shell, said it was considering staff cuts at its refineries and chemical plants on the US Gulf Coast to reduce costs in the current recession.

At just 12 years old, Julie Aftab was forced to work 13 hours each day to support her family in her native Pakistan.

Priscilla Lorraine Hutson, of Deer Park, TX and Joshua Benge Elliott, of San Marcos, were married Sunday, May 10, 2009 under the Oaks at The Inn at Wild Rose Hall in Austin.

INDUSTRIAL: A. Migl Investments purchased two buildings totaling 20,000 square feet at 16518 A & B Aldine Westfield from TNRG Development.

Buyers and sellers of spot US styrene Wednesday were deadlocked on pricing as buyers looked at arbitrage opportunities and sellers saw rising feedstocks.

LyondellBasell Industries and Hexion Specialty Chemicals are both curtailing chemical production in the face of weak demand.

Shell says it anticipates "disruptions" to refinery production at its 340,000 b/d Deer Park, Texas, refinery, due to a power outage Monday morning, which cut electricity to the site.

Deer Park Independent School District has installed Axis Communications' network cameras on its school campuses and support services buildings.

Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc., announced today that it plans to indefinitely idle its BPA3 production unit, part of its manufacturing complex in Deer Park, Texas.