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Jasmine Lotts spoke with the chairman of the Texas Railroad commission and learned the state agency is working to address oilfield theft. Investigators say criminals have been stealing crude oil from remote storage tanks, sometimes using cloned trucks that resemble legitimate oil haulers. “So theft on that could equate from what we’re seeing today to tens of millions of dollars, and maybe even more,” Chairman Jim Wright said. Wright said a task force made up of regulators, law enforcement and in

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An Army sergeant who was caught on video beating a 3-year-old boy asked a judge to reduce his $200,000 bond Thursday but left court with an even higher bond. Attorneys for Paul Anthony Thames, 29, alleged in a motion that Thames is jailed unlawfully because he is entitled to a “reasonable bond.” Thames was indicted Feb. 5 on a third-degree felony injury to a child charge in a Jan. 16 incident in which he is seen on doorbell camera footage lifting the toddler by the neck and punching him on the b