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Béla Wellness Drinks Launch in LifeCafe
Life Time will be Béla's first national customer
Béla, the Atlanta-based wellness beverage brand, announced today that it will soon be available at LifeCafe fast casual restaurants in Life Time's athletic resort destinations nationwide. Béla will implement a multi-faceted marketing campaign through 2019 to support the launch at Life Time, the nation's premier healthy lifestyle brand.
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Liam Payne opens up about alcohol abuse and his 'toxic' time in One Direction
Liam Payne was 14 years old when One Direction rose to fame, and it wasn't an easy transition for him.
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Netflix documentary on campaigns of four Democratic women, including Ocasio-Cortez, set to be released in May
Netflix is set to release a new documentary early next month that chronicles the 2018 congressional campaigns of four Democratic women, including prominent freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Calls Upon Department of Justice to Take Action to Prevent ‘Waller County Outrage’
Jackson Lee: “What is happening in Waller County, Texas appears to part of an ongoing campaign of abusing state election law to disenfranchise minority voters, which is why I am calling upon the U.S. Department of Justice to take appropriate action immediately to enjoin elections administration officials for Waller County, Texas from implementing their announced plan to impose additional and unreasonable burdens that on the students of Prairie View A&M University who are and have registered to vote and cast their ballots.”
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Festival Southeast Tourism Society Top 20 Event
The Southeast Tourism Society (STS) recently honored the Martin Luther King, Jr. Festival as a 2018 Top 20 Event for the month of January.
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January Garcia on the Go
Making every day count
Throughout the month of January, Senator Garcia will be attending local school board meetings across Senate District 6 to present proclamations from the Texas Senate to local school board members in honor of Texas School Board Recognition Month. Public participation in school district governance through school boards and local Parent Teacher Associations is vital to the success of our schools. As the saying goes, “It takes a village to raise a child.” Senator Garcia encourages everyone to contact their local ISD office to find out more about getting involved in the school district decision making process.
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Statement by Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee on her Opposition to the Continuing Resolution
Jackson Lee: “This is not a spending bill but an affirmation of Republicans’ inability to govern, at a time when so many Americans are hurting, and with so many Dreamers trapped in a web of uncertainty and living in fear.”
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Governor Abbott Deploys Emergency Response Resources, Personnel To Louisiana To Support Hurricane Ida Recovery Efforts
Governor Greg Abbott today announced that, at the request of the State of Louisiana through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC), the State of Texas has deployed numerous resources and personnel to support Hurricane Ida response and recovery efforts. Resources include: 1 CH 47 (Chinook) Helicopter, 14 crew members, 30 Type 1 Fire Engines, and 132 firefighters through the Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System (TIFMAS). Texas A&M Task Force One is also on the ground to provide urban search and rescue capabilities.
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Harmony Public Schools Opens New High School in Katy
Harmony Public Schools is excited to begin the new school year with a brand-new school in Katy. Harmony School of Innovation – Katy will open its door for the first time ever on Tuesday, August 23. This high school will be located at 21650 Bellaire Blvd. Richmond, TX 77407 making it the sixth Harmony Public School campus in Fort Bend County.
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Fort Bend County Honors Hispanic Community Leaders, Presents Inaugural Hispanic and Latin Heritage Food Festival
Fort Bend County Judge KP George, today proudly celebrated the profound impact that Latin-American people and culture have in Fort Bend County with two special community events held at the Historic Fort Bend County Courthouse.
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Austin Bank, Texas N.A. and FHLB Dallas Award $16K to Cleveland, Texas, Nonprofit
Trained, Unwavering, Focused and Fit (TUFF) Kids Receives Partnership Grant Program Funds
Austin Bank, Texas N.A. (Austin Bank) and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (FHLB Dallas) awarded $16,000 in Partnership Grant Program (PGP) funds to the nonprofit Trained, Unwavering, Focused and Fit Kids (TUFF Kids).
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Black doctor debunks COVID-19 myths on TikTok to reach Black Ameri¬cans
A growing number of Black doctors are using social media to reach vaccine-wary members of their communities. Dr. Kristamarie Collman, a family medicine physician in Orlando, is one of them.
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McCarthy makes plea for Republicans to back debt ceiling plan
Speaker Kevin McCarthy made a plea to House Republicans during a closed-door meeting Tuesday morning to back his debt ceiling plan, telling them that although it doesn't have to include everything they want, it will help get him to the negotiating table.
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Billionaire James Crown killed in race car crash
James Crown, a billionaire businessman who held several leadership roles including board member of JPMorgan Chase, died Sunday in a racing accident in Colorado
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Child among five killed in Egyptian building collapse
At least five people, including a child, have died and four others were injured after a building collapsed in the Egyptian city of Alexandria on Monday, state newspaper Al-Ahram reported.
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Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Announces Consumer Fraud Investigation into Patriot Title
Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee announced today that the County Attorney’s Office is starting the process to sue a local title company that has repeatedly defrauded community members in real estate transactions. County Attorney Menefee was joined by Commissioner Lesley Briones and victims of Patriot Title's scams.
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Italian secret service agents among victims of Lake Maggiore boat accident
Two Italian secret service agents and a retired member of Israel’s security forces were among the four victims from Sunday’s fatal boat accident on Lake Maggiore, northern Italy.
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Minorities achieved milestones in the May 6 elections
Last Saturday, May 6, on Texas’ second uniform election date other than the second Tuesday in November, African Americans, Hispanics, and Indian Americans won big milestones in suburban city and school board races that determine metrics in taxes, the quality of life, and the quality of education where minority families have been moving.
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More than 2K firefighters in medical leave
City Hall reports 91 percent of the entire city's workforce is vaccinated, with an increase in vaccination rates in just the last 24 hours.
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Concertgoer files police report after Cardi B’s Las Vegas show
A concertgoer has filed a report with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) after being “struck by an item that was thrown from the stage,” police said in a statement to CNN Monday.
