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  • Altuve leaves Boras to rejoin former agency

    Email HOUSTON -- Astros second baseman Jose Altuve recently left agent Scott Boras and signed with Scott Pucino and Wil Polidor of Octagon -- the agency that originally represented him before he switched to Boras about a year ago. Altuve, an All-Star in 2012, who's making a push to make the American League All-Star team this year, entered Monday hitting .333 and was tied for first in the ...

  • Maxwell ditches brace making progress

    Email HOUSTON -- Astros outfielder Justin Maxwell, who's been out nearly a month with a fractured left hand, is no longer wearing a brace and continues to make good progress. He hit 15 balls off a tee on Monday and took 30 more swing from soft toss. Maxwell said he was still a little sore and is scheduled to have a routine X-ray on Tuesday. "I've just been working with ...

  • Soto Chirinos fill void competently behind the plate

    Email ARLINGTON -- The Rangers went into Monday's game with the Athletics having won nine of their last 13 games. That's significant because those 13 games took place while catcher A.J. Pierzynski was on the disabled list with a strained oblique muscle in his right rib cage. The Rangers were able to survive and thrive because of the work of Geovany Soto and Robinson Chirinos. Soto was ...

  • 5 E. coli cases confirmed

    According to a press release Monday by the Brazos County Health Department, the investigation of 10 cases of Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli has ...

  • Mission Sierra residents fed up with vandals

    "It's starting to be a little bit annoying," said Terrance Riley, Mission Sierra Homeowner's Association president. "We just noticed broken bottle glass and then we noticed bb shots to the windows and then we noticed glass being broken ...


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ParaNorman

ParaNorman, a 3D stop-motion horror-comedy love letter to misunderstood outcasts, begins in hilariously meta-fashion, with a bad horror movie-within-the-movie that features an endlessly screaming young woman, a slowly lumbering zombie, and a pulsating electronic score that will imme ... ...

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  • H-E-B pulls prepackaged Gulf shrimp from Galveston Shrimp Co. after recall

    CORPUS CHRISTI -- H-E-B has pulled from its shelves prepackaged Gulf shrimp from the Galveston Shrimp Company after the company reported finding small pieces of metal in the bags. There have been no reports of illnesses caused by the product, H-E-B spokeswoman Regina Garcia said. The company issued a precautionary recall Friday of the shrimp which is sold in freezers in H-E-B stores ...

  • Tornado causes massive damage near Oklahoma City

    Gary Knight with the Oklahoma City Police Department says an elementary school took a direct hit from the mile-wide tornado, but did not say which school was ...

  • Precautionary recall for pre-packaged shrimp

    You'll want to check your freezers after a Galveston seafood company announced a recall for at least seven different shrimp products sold at Houston-area grocery ...

  • Todays MLB starting lineups May 20

    Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Arizona Diamondbacks: 1. ...

  • Man charged with murder of Houston mother son

    HOUSTON - One suspect has been arrested and police are searching for four others connected to the double murder of a Houston woman and her 10-year-old ...

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