Texas City (United States)

Type: City

Name: Texas City (United States)

Latitude: 29.41

Longitude: -94.959999

population: 43,879

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Sakowitz: Region's ports will have more clout as one group

The recent announcement of the creation of the South Texas Alliance for Regional Trade ("START") is a clarion call for similar action by and for our four local Ports. START is the formation of a joint marketing and working collaboration of the seaport ... [Published Houston Chronicle - May 17 2013]

Entities: Sakowitz, Ports, Freeport (Bahamas), Panama Canal

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Brutal Cops Seized Wrong Phone, Man Says

GALVESTON (CN) - Galveston police seized the wrong cell phone after Tasering and beating the hell out of a man with a heart condition, and the victim's attorney has the video evidence the cops wanted to seize, the man claims in court. Jarrett Anthony ... [Published Courthouse News Service - May 16 2013]

Entities: Cellphone, Police, Paul Houston

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Council squashes proposed water-rate hike

Funds would have supported widening of U.S. 82The Texarkana, Texas, City Council voted down an ordinance that would have supported a $3.5 million bond issue to widen U.S. Highway 82 and possibly raised water rates 4 percent during Monday night’s meet ... [Published Texarkana Gazette - May 15 2013]

Entities: Texas City (United States), United States

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Sheikh Hasina

Bangladesh building collapse death toll reaches 1,000

$ Bangladeshi rescuers retrieve garment worker Reshma from the rubble of a collapsed building in Savar on Friday, May 10, 2013Rescuers combing through the debris of a garment-factory building that collapsed in Bangladesh 18 days ago pulled a survivor ... [Published Thanhnien - May 13 2013]

Entities: Bangladesh, Workers, Sheikh Hasina, Primark Stores Ltd

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Premature To Remove Texas City From The Air Pollution Watch List

By Elena Craft, PhDEstimated Distribution of Benzene Annual Concentration, Based on Retrieved Primary Source Location and Wind Direction FrequencyLast week, EDF, along with Air Alliance Houston (AAH), submitted comments to the Texas Commission for Environmental ... [Published Environmental Defense - May 13 2013]

Entities: Texas City (United States), Benzene, Watch List

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Harley Shaiken

BD’s textile industry crying out for change

WASHINGTON: The death toll from the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh swelled to more than 1,000 workers, cementing its place among a grisly lineup of the world’s worst industrial disasters and reinforcing calls that the tragedy ... [Published DAWN Group - May 12 2013]

Entities: Bangladesh, Harley Shaiken, Workers, Disaster, Texas City (United States)

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

67-year-old receives her GED

Photo by T.J. AULDS Sangeeta Gianchandani, center, is all smiles with her daughter Kanchan, back, Bajaj and granddaughters Pritti Bajaj and Esha Bajaj after receiving her GED from College of the Mainland on Friday.67-year-old receives her GED By T.J. ... [Published Galveston County Daily News - May 13 2013]

Entities: Education, India, Education Development Intl, Texas City (United States)

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 2 reports

Hundreds attend funeral for Texas firefighter killed in blast

WEST, Texas - Hundreds of firefighters and a drum and pipe band joined residents of a Texas town on Wednesday to honor a firefighter who died one week ago in an explosion at a fertilizer plant that killed 13 others and injured some 200.Authorities reported ... [Published The Oregon Herald - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: West (Texas, United States), Dallas (Texas, United States), ATF Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms & Explos...

First reported Apr 20 2013 - Updated Apr 21 2013 - 2 reports

Could Your Town Explode? Use This Map To See If You're Near A Fertilizer Plant

The fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, on Wednesday (April 17) killed at least a dozen people and destroyed several blocks of the small town.Is your neighborhood next?Investigators have yet to determine the exact cause of the fire and powerful ... [Published Business Insider - Apr 20 2013]

Entities: Fertilizer Plant, Ammonium Nitrate, West (Texas, United States)

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 20 2013 - 2 reports

Texas on Fire, Again and Again

AUSTIN, Tex. SHORTLYbefore a in West, Tex., on Wednesday, a father was driving in the vicinity with his 12-year-old daughter. They had stopped to take a video of what the man thought was a large fire swirling around the local high school.He chatted with ... [Published New York Times - Apr 20 2013]

Entities: Texas City Disaster, Ammonium Nitrate, Texas City (United States), Fertilizer

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 20 2013 - 5 reports

14 bodies recovered from Texas blast

Tragedy: the remains of a fertiliser plant smolde. Photo: Reuters Search crews recovered the bodies of 14 people killed in a Texas fertilizer-plant explosion that injured 200 and devastated the small town of West in the worst US industrial disaster in ... [Published Brisbane Times - Apr 20 2013]

Entities: Donald Adair, West (Texas, United States), John Cornyn, Ammonium Nitrate

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 2 reports

Explosion at West production plant raises concerns about the safety of fertilizer production

AddThisTagsThese tags are automatically generated. The Daily Texan does not guarantee their accuracy.Fertilizer that fueled a blast at a plant in West that left eight to 10 dead and more than 100 injured, is usually safe and difficult to ignite unless ... [Published Daily Texan - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Ammonium Nitrate, Fertilizer, Detonation, Flammable, Chemical

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After Deadly Chemical Plant Disasters, There's Little Action [Published NPR - May 17 2013]

...In their stated mission, the three cities, despite their physical distance, "plan to tout their combined assets to attract business and freight volumes to the region. 'We can market ourselves better as a group'."

Sakowitz: Region's ports will have more clout as one group [Published Houston Chronicle - May 17 2013]

"As previously communicated, we expect the transaction to close before mid-2013" said Tina Barbee, who declined to elaborate

Exclusive: U.S. approval of BP refinery sale to Tesoro seen imminent [Published Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC - May 17 2013]

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After Deadly Chemical Plant Disasters, There's ... [Published NPR - May 17 2013]
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Tesoro may own BP California refinery as early ... [Published Yahoo! UK and Ireland - May 16 2013]
Brutal Cops Seized Wrong Phone, Man Says [Published Courthouse News Service - May 16 2013]
Walmart CEO Discusses Q1 2013 Results - Earning... [Published Yahoo! Finance - May 16 2013]
Explosives Next Door Unnerve U.S. Towns With Fe... [Published BusinessWeek - May 15 2013]
Council squashes proposed water-rate hike [Published Texarkana Gazette - May 15 2013]
Premature To Remove Texas City From The Air Pol... [Published Environmental Defense - May 13 2013]
Bangladesh building collapse death toll reaches... [Published Thanhnien - May 13 2013]
67-year-old receives her GED [Published Galveston County Daily News - May 13 2013]
BD’s textile industry crying out for change [Published DAWN Group - May 12 2013]
Houston pedestrian accidents highlight safety i... [Published 24-7PressRelease.com - May 10 2013]
Del Papa Distributing Company honors veterans a... [Published Cleveland Advocate - May 10 2013]
Bangladesh 1,000 Deaths Recall Disasters From T... [Published Bloomberg - May 10 2013]
Learn more about these local education options [Published Houston Chronicle - May 09 2013]
BP seen preparing Whiting refinery CDU for star... [Published London South East - May 09 2013]
BP Whiting upgraded crude unit start planned fo... [Published Yahoo! UK and Ireland - May 06 2013]
Enterprise announces Texas crude storage expansion [Published Fuel Fix - May 03 2013]
Armed man commits suicide at airport in Texas [Published GantDaily.com - May 03 2013]
Seal safety may require going beyond typical st... [Published Hydrocarbon Processing - May 02 2013]
The United States Army Corps of Engineers Galve... [Published Guidry News - May 02 2013]
Welding program prepares students for booming i... [Published Cleveland Advocate - May 02 2013]
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Marathon Petroleum 1st quarter profits up 22% [Published Equities.com - May 01 2013]

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John Galt Kills Texans in Massive Fertilizer Pl... [Published naked capitalism - Apr 26 2013] Yves here. Coverage of the horrific fertilizer plant explosion has taken a back seat to coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. Yet more people died in the Texas tragedy, which was also preventable. By Jim White. Cross posted from emptywheel ...
Ammonium nitrate fertilizer isn't really a dang... [Published Boing Boing - Apr 18 2013] Fertilizer can explode*. We all know that. It was a key ingredient in the bomb that destroyed Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995. Last night, a factory full of the stuff went up with enough force that United States Geological Survey ...
The Texas fertilizer plant explosion is horrifi... [Published Ezra Klein - Apr 18 2013] Yet another piece of horrible news to add to this week: A massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in central Texas on Wednesday killed 5 to 15 people and left more than 160 wounded. In this Instagram photo provided by Andy Bartee, a plume of smoke ...
Potential leak of data: Personal Information [Published LeakedIn - Apr 09 2013] Detected 1 occurrence(s) of ‘doxed’: ## # ## ## ## ## # ### ## ###### ## # ### ## ## ## # ### ## ## ## # ### ###### ######## (You Got Doxed) ------=-=-General Info=====--- Name:Dylan K Foster Contry:United States State:Texas City:Texarkana Postal Code:75501 ...
BP to Feds: Stop Fraudulent Deepwater Horizon C... [Published Wall St. Cheat Sheet - Apr 05 2013] BP ( NYSE:BP ) has said all along that fraud would be rampant following their compensation settlement for Deepwater Horizon oil spill victims. Fund administrators countered that the oil giant was more likely to underestimate its debt to the Gulf Coast ...