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updated: Sun Jul 06, 2008 12:16 am

Fort Bend County News

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Yesterday | Abilene Reporter-News

Bloodless bullfight safe for bull, not for matador

Matador Enrique Delgado "El Cicion de Monterey" gets ready for the Bloodless bullfighting held in the Houston-area for the first time in more than two decades at the Fort Bend County Fairgrounds on Saturday, ...

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Related Topix: Houston Metro, Rosenberg, TX, Federal Detention Center, Houston, Federal Prisons

Fri Jul 04, 2008

Houston Chronicle

New buses will offer rides to Med Center from Fort Bend

Fort Bend County bus service and the Texas Medical Center: Likely 15 buses departing from three park-and-ride spots.

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Related Topix: Sugar Land, TX, Texas, Katy, TX, Houston Metro

Thu Jul 03, 2008

KHOU-TV Houston

Park and ride coming to Fort Bend for Med Center employees

Fort Bend County residents who commute to the Texas Medical Center will soon have an easier go of it.

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Wed Jul 02, 2008

South Texas Chisme

Fort Bend County nearly doubles its election day voting machines

Fort Bend is buying more Hart Intercivic eSlate machines for this November's election.

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Related Topix: Computers

Tue Jul 01, 2008

KHOU-TV Houston

Commuter rail in Fort Bend stuck at the station

For some, the thought of mass-transit rail service is bad news. But for thousands in Fort Bend County, commuter rail cannot pull into the station fast enough.

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Related Topix: Houston Metro, Stafford, TX

Mon Jun 30, 2008

Houston Chronicle

Man gets life in shooting of Meadows Place officer

A man accused of shooting a Meadows Place police officer during a chase two years ago was found guilty of attempted capital murder and sentenced to life in prison Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Meadows Place, TX, Katy, TX, Houston Metro

Thu Jun 26, 2008

Earth Times

Sugar Land, Missouri City Real Estate Statistics Tell Impressive Story

Missouri City ranked fifth on the list. Average market values in both cities also have climbed, according to HAR statistics, with the average market value of Sugar Land homes rising 9 percent to $222,615 in one ...

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Related Topix: Sugar Land, TX, Missouri City, TX, Real Estate, Houston Metro

Tue Jun 24, 2008

Intermodality

five questions about HGAC's commuter rail plan

While I was in Boston , HGAC released a commuter rail study . It's an extensive, in-depth document, the best look we've had at what a commuter rail system in the Houston region might be like and what it would ...

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Related Topix: Tomball, TX, Sugar Land, TX, The Woodlands, TX, Houston Metro

Sun Jun 22, 2008

Houston Chronicle

Letters: Taking a story by the horns

Oy vey! Bullfighting in Houston! When will the mollycoddling of foreigners stop? Better yet, why does it even exist? First, soccer, which is not a real sport to begin with but a craze that has created a free ...

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Related Topix: Katy, TX, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Texas, Opinion

Fri Jun 20, 2008

GlobeSt.com

McShane-Led JV Options Site for...

McShane Corp. is getting ready to break ground on Grand Parkway Medical Office Center, the suburb's first medical office building.

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Related Topix: Real Estate

Wed Jun 18, 2008

KVIA-TV El Paso

Teens arrested in burglary after leaving backpack at scene

Sheriff's officials say two 16-year-old boys have been arrested in a home burglary after officers discovered the teens had left a backpack and a cell phone at the house.

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Tue Jun 17, 2008

Houston Chronicle

Pasadena mom pleads for children's return

A Pasadena woman pleaded for the return of her children today as police continued searching for the 7-year-old boy and his 3-year-old sister.

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Related Topix: Kids, Family

Thu Jun 12, 2008

RedOrbit

Salmonella Tomato Investigation Starts in Harris County

State health officials' search for the source of tainted tomatoes thought responsible for a salmonella outbreak focused on Harris County on Wednesday, as medical workers reported that three more local cases of ...

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Related Topix: Food Poisoning, Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Texas

Tue Jun 10, 2008

Fort Bend Sun

Missouri City man sentenced to 25 years for car jacking

Nearly a year after a Missouri City man used a gun to take an Infinity sedan from a patron of a Sugar Land gas station and leading police on a high speed chase, he is being sentenced to 25 years in prison for ...

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Related Topix: Sugar Land, TX, Missouri City, TX

Sun Jun 08, 2008

Fort Bend Sun

Fort Bend names new elections official

John Oldham has been hired as the new elections administrator for Fort Bend County.

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Fri Jun 06, 2008

Houston Chronicle

Kendleton fire chief arrested on drug charge

The acting fire chief of Kendleton volunteer fire department was arrested Friday by the Fort Bend County Narcotics Task Force on a charge of possession of a controlled substance.

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Related Topix: Kendleton, TX, Drugs

Thu Jun 05, 2008

Click2Houston.com

Deputies: Men Crash Bulldozer Into Post Office

Three men drove a bulldozer over railroad tracks, over a telephone pole and through a fence before they crashed it into the side of a post office, deputies told KPRC Local 2 Thursday.

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Related Topix: Kendleton, TX

KRISTV.COM Corpus Christi

Bulldozer damages Texas post office

The only post office in Kendleton doesn't have a drive-thru, but it nearly got one after a bulldozer rammed a hole in the building.

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Related Topix: Kendleton, TX

Tue Jun 03, 2008

Houston Chronicle

Fort Bend associate principal jailed after student fight

An associate principal at George Bush High School was arrested Tuesday after he was involved in a fight with a student, school officials said.

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Related Topix: Education Etc.

Mon Jun 02, 2008

KVUE

FLDS parents eager to reunite with kids

The parents of the children taken from the polygamist Eldorado sect have been watching the developments closely in the past week.

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Related Topix: Family, Kids, FLDS, Religion, Texas

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