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U.S. Rep. Rubn Hinojosa announced Wednesday he will seek an eighth term in office, saying he wants to continue to work on important issues for South Texas.

Lawmakers created the Veterans Cash lottery ticket during the last legislative session with proceeds providing financial assistance to veterans and their families through the state's Permanent Fund for Veterans' Assistance, state Rep.

The university system has shepherded redevelopment efforts since May for the Port of Corpus Christi.

An eleventh-hour visit to Capitol Hill by President Barack Obama, a compromise on reproductive rights and provisions on accountability helped sway undecided Texas Democrats to vote for a historic health care bill that passed by a slim margin late Saturday.

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Three lawmakers say Army briefers told them 38 people were wounded in the Fort Hood rampage - eight more than previously reported.

Republican activists opposed to the health care bill unveiled by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi picketed Tuesday in front of the Texas offices of two Democratic lawmakers who face GOP challengers next year.

Watts hopes to replace U.S. District Judge Hayden Head. Hasette hopes to replace U.S. District Judge Hayden Head.

Several Texas lawmakers are united on waiting until at-risk populations receive the scarce H1N1 flu shots before getting their own, even though a congressional colleague has caught the swine flu.

Texas Veterans Land Board and Texas Veterans Commission are hosting vendors to help veterans with housing, land and home improvement loans; securing education benefits and other federal entitlements and to help veterans with business opportunities at Congressman Solomon P. Ortiz International Center.

Todd Hunter, R-Corpus Christi, with a luncheon at the Town Club on Wednesday, giving him the group's Civil Justice Leadership Award.

The Obama administration on Friday named Hidalgo County Judge Juan "J.D." Salinas regional administrator for the U.S. General Services Administration, effective Nov.

U.S. Representative Solomon Ortiz addresses Naval Criminal Investigative Service and Commander, Navy Installations Command personnel at a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration on the Washington Navy Yard.

The university was looking for an opportunity to link program donors, businesses and industries in the community with this year's freshman engineering students, who started in late August, said A&M-Corpus Christi President Flavius Killebrew.

So perhaps there's a clue there why many young people are leaving Corpus Christi when they get through school, as state demographer Karl Eschbach described in a Chamber of Commerce program on population trends last week at the Congressman Solomon P. Ortiz International Center.

Las Donas de la Corte court chairwoman Mrs. James Thaxton ; wardrobe chairwoman Mrs.

Remember Compaq? Hewlett-Packard acquired the venerable computer company way back in 2002, but it's kept the name alive as a secondary brand ever since, mainly relegating Compaq to overseas markets and as second-tier PCs sold on the cheap at warehouse-style stores.

Congressional investigators are reviewing how the Department of Defense is spending billions of dollars in stimulus funding at military installations across the system.

It's expected to add the population of North Dakota in the next 18 years. But based on current migration trends, those people won't be coming to Corpus Christi unless area leaders make changes that reverse the trend.

Obama's new Attorney General, Eric Holder, has already said this is one of his major issues.