US prison population could soon drop for first time in 4 decades as states look to cut costs

Prison population to have first drop since 1972

US jail population could soon drop for first time in decades as states look to cut costs

Jail population could have first drop in 4 decades

Texas prison guard fired in wake of inmate escaping with loaded pistol

Texas guard fired after inmate escapes with weapon

Whole Foods Market launches mobile Web site with store locator, recipes

Whole Foods launches mobile Web site

AUSTIN, Texas — Whole Foods Market said Thursday it has launched a mobile Web site designed for people who browse online from their cell phones.

Minnesota State Patrol says 1 passenger in serious condition after bus crash that killed 2

Patrol: 1 in serious condition after bus crash

Bus company: Driver had aneurysm, lost consciousness before southern Minn. crash that killed 2

Bus company: Driver in Minn. crash had aneurysm

GAO: Gov’t improperly awarded $100M in contracts to firms in small business veterans program

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Tour bus rolls over off southern Minnesota interstate, killing 2 and injuring 21

Tour bus crashes off Minn. interstate, killing 2

Tour bus rolls over off southern Minnesota interstate; fatalities reported, number unclear

Tour bus crashes off southern Minnesota interstate

Fatalities reported in Minnesota tour bus crash, state officials say number unclear

Fatalities reported in Minnesota tour bus crash

Tour bush crashes on I-90 in southern Minnesota, as many as 22 people injured, some seriously

As many as 22 injured in Minn. tour bus crash

APNewsBreak: Hutchison won’t resign Senate seat before Texas primary election for governor

Hutchison won’t resign seat before Texas primary

Dallas Federal Reserve Bank president says economic cut not as deep in Texas

Fisher: Texas faring better than much of country

Logitech to buy video conferencing company LifeSize Communications for $405 million

Logitech to buy LifeSize Communications for $405M

Fed officials warn of long road ahead to turn around jobs market, commercial real estate

Fed officials warn weak recovery won’t spur jobs

Texas Gov. Perry tells renewable energy industry cap-and-trade bill would hurt state

Texas Gov. Perry: Cap-and-trade would harm state

Whole Foods Market Inc. profit and sales grow in fourth-quarter; CEO says ‘turned the corner’

Whole Foods profit jumps in 4Q

AUSTIN, Texas — Whole Foods Market Inc. said Wednesday that its business has officially turned the corner as sales and profit grew in the fourth quarter.

Attorney: Texas lottery considers clerk accused of stealing $1M ticket to be the winner

Attorney: Texas lottery won’t pay cheated winner

Judge dismisses murder charges against 2 men in 1991 slayings of 4 teens at Austin yogurt shop

Murder charges tossed in Texas yogurt shop deaths

Cheney to endorse US Sen. Hutchison’s run for Texas governor; will appear at Nov. fundraiser

Cheney to campaign for Hutchison in Texas

AUSTIN, Texas — Former Vice President Dick Cheney will throw his support behind U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s campaign for Texas governor.

Cheated winner wants Texas lottery to pay him; clerk accused of stealing $1M prize at large

Cheated winner wants Texas lottery to pay him

Census data shows college graduates choosing urban, high-tech meccas in recession

Census: ‘Brain gains’ for high-tech cities

Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s wealth fueled by investments, husband’s income, records show

Hutchison’s wealth from investments, spouse’s pay

Temple-Inland 3rd-quarter profit soars, beats Wall Street expectations

AUSTIN, Texas — Temple-Inland Inc. on Thursday said its third-quarter profit soared, beating Wall Street expectations, as operational improvements in the company’s box and food packaging business offset a loss at its building products unit.

Authorities: Texas store clerk stole customer’s $1 million lottery prize, disappeared

AUSTIN, Texas — Authorities say a 25-year-old Texas convenience store clerk claimed $1 million in lottery winnings that belonged to a customer and left town, perhaps back to his native Nepal.

University of Texas getting Walter Cronkite’s papers, plans to exhibit them in May

AUSTIN, Texas — A University of Texas official says Walter Cronkite’s papers and photographs will be permanently housed at the Austin campus and then exhibited in May.

US Senator Hutchison sells home in Washington suburb as her race for Texas governor gears up

AUSTIN, Texas — U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison may be waffling about when to give up her powerful job.

Texas unemployment rate jumps to 8.2 percent; state sees additional 44,700 jobs lost

AUSTIN, Texas — The state unemployment rate jumped to 8.2 percent in September and an additional 44,700 jobs were lost, the Texas Workforce Commission said Friday.

Brigham Exploration says Brad Olson 9-16 ‥1H well flows 2,112 boepd, shares hit 52-week high

AUSTIN, Texas — Oil and gas company Brigham Exploration Co. on Friday said that one of its wells in the Bakken Shale produced an initial rate of about 2,112 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

At least 796 US military deaths in Afghanistan region since 2001, Defense Department says

As of Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009, at least 796 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Friday at 10 a.m. EDT.

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