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July 2008
- Dolly Wallops, But Levees Hold
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 23, 08 8:52 PM CDT
  
  Hurricane Dolly barreled into South Texas today, lashing the coast with winds up to 100 mph and dumping heavy rain that threatened to flood low-lying areas but spared levees along the heavily populated Rio Grande Valley. "The levees are holding up just fine," said an emergency coordinator for Cameron County. "There is no indication right now that they are going to crest." More »
  
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  Texas • Mexico • hurricane • Hurricane Dolly
- Big Texas Steroid Sweep Nets 2 Students
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 23, 08 6:01 PM CDT
  
  Texas’s $6-million program to test high school athletes for steroids found two students out of 10,117 were using the drugs, the AP reports. Supporters called the testing, the country's largest, a deterrent, but critics see it as a waste of taxpayer money. About 45,000 students will be tested over two years. The two students caught were multi-sport athletes, but authorities did not say which sports they played. More »
  
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  Texas • steroids • high school sports
- Dolly Makes Texas Landfall
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 23, 08 2:06 PM CDT
  
  Hurricane Dolly has come ashore near South Padre Island, Texas, the AP reports, forcing thousands on both sides of the US-Mexico border to forsake their homes for shelters. Heavy winds and rains have already destroyed a building’s roof and cut power for thousands; authorities say levees along the Rio Grande are holding. More »
  
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  Texas • weather • electricity • rain • winds • Hurricane Dolly • South Padre Island
- Dolly Strengthens to Category 2
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 23, 08 10:37 AM CDT
  
  Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say Hurricane Dolly has strengthened to a Category 2 storm, with maximum sustained winds near 100 mph. The storm center is about 30 miles east-northeast of Brownsville, Texas. More »
  
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  Texas • Mexico • hurricane • hurricane season • Hurricane Dolly • Tropical Storm Dolly • Tropical Storm
- Dolly Becomes a Hurricane
  
  newser | Daily News (Galveston Co., Texas) | Jul 22, 08 5:06 PM CDT
  
  Tropical Storm Dolly got a promotion this afternoon, becoming the second named hurricane of the season, the Galveston County Daily News reports. The new hurricane is moving northwest over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico at 10mph and is expected to make landfall sometime tomorrow. If current models prevail, the storm will collide with the Texas-Mexico border, Reuters reports. More »
  
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  Texas • Mexico • Hurricane Dolly • Tropical Storm Dolly
- Dolly Storms Toward Texas
  
  newser | Reuters | Jul 22, 08 6:08 AM CDT
  
  Tropical Storm Dolly is en route to hurricane status, and hurricane conditions are expected by the end of today on the southern Texas coast near the Mexican border, Reuters reports. With winds currently around 50mph, Dolly is crossing the Gulf of Mexico from where it emerged over the Yucatan peninsula. More »
  
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  Texas • Mexico • hurricane • Gulf of Mexico • Corpus Christi • Tropical Storm Dolly
- Key Salmonella Strain Found in Jalapeño
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 21, 08 4:17 PM CDT
  
  Federal inspectors are urging people to avoid eating fresh jalapeños after discovering the same salmonella strain responsible for a nationwide food-poisoning epidemic in a Mexican-grown pepper in a Texas plant. Though the FDA says the finding is a “very important break in the case,” the Mexican jalapeños are not necessarily the source of the salmonella, as the pepper may not have been contaminated on the farm, the AP reports. More »
  
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  Texas • Mexico • FDA • food safety • salmonella • Food and Drug Administration
- Missing Soldier Found Alive
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 21, 08 6:34 AM CDT
  
  The Fort Bliss soldier reported missing and endangered Friday has been found alive in Nevada, reports the AP, and tells family that her estranged husband abducted her from her El Paso apartment. Jeneesa Lewis, whose apartment yielded evidence of a struggle, reported being beaten and stabbed twice, and sounded "tired, scared, and weak," her sister says. Police have charged her husband, Clinton Lewis, with aggravated kidnapping. More »
  
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  Texas • kidnapping • US Army • missing person • missing soldiers • Fort Bliss
- Missing Soldier Was About to Divorce Hubby
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 20, 08 3:43 PM CDT
  
  A Fort Bliss soldier reported missing on Friday had been planning to divorce her husband, says her sister. Two days before she disappeared, Jeneesa Lewis texted her sister "Yeah, he's gone. Had police go with me yesterday, it's all clear." The husband, Clinton Lewis, is also missing and believed to have taken off with Jeneesa, AP reports. More »
  
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  Texas • US Army • missing person • missing soldiers • Fort Bliss
- Texans Shocked by Spiking Power Bills
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 17, 08 9:30 AM CDT
  
  As energy prices soar, many Texans are wishing they had added "regulation of electrical companies" to the list of things not to mess with. Authorities predicted competition would lower prices when they deregulated the industry in 1999, the Wall Street Journal reports, but inadequate infrastructure, rising fuel costs, and other factors have meant just the opposite. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Texas • electricity • alternative energy • energy bill • energy costs • deregulation
- Where Does All That Seized Money Go?
  
  newser | Economist | Jul 13, 08 5:42 AM CDT
  
  What would you do with a few million in drug money? Last year, state and federal authorities seized about $2 billion from Mexican smugglers. The feds have to put any seized money into a dedicated fund, but the rules are looser for states. In Texas and Georgia, for example, sheriffs and district attorneys get to keep any seized loot for their departments. The Economist takes a look at the issue and the sometimes iffy purchases that result. More »
  
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  Texas • crime • police • War on Drugs • drug cartel • drug war • drug cartels
- No Charges for Texas Man Who Shot Neighbor's Burglars
  
  newser | Houston Chronicle | Jul 1, 08 2:59 PM CDT
  
  A Texas grand jury’s decision to take no action against Joe Horn, who killed two burglars on his front lawn, has focused attention on the state’s “deadly force” laws, the Houston Chronicle reports. Horn’s life was not in danger until he confronted the thieves fleeing his neighbor’s house, but his actions were legally protected by a statute dating from the 1850s. More »
  
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  Texas • shooting • gun control • law • property • protection • vigilante justice
June 2008
- Yanks Flood Mexico for Cheap Gas
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 25, 08 3:46 AM CDT
  
  Soaring gas prices have Californians and Texans racing for the border and braving drug cartel violence to save some $20 per tank filling up in Mexico. American pumps have passed the $4 mark, but Mexican gas is still just $2.66 a gallon thanks to subsidies intended for poor Mexicans. Americans are buying it up instead, triggering a 50% surge in sales—and Mexican gas shortages, reports the New York Times. More »
  
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  Texas • gas prices • Mexico • gas • fuel costs • fuel
- Texas Kids Fed Pills in Forced 'Sex Shows'
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 23, 08 7:10 AM CDT
  
  Four children, the youngest just 5 years old, were fed powerful painkillers they knew as "silly pills" and forced to perform sex shows for crowds in a small Texas town, AP reports. Locals had believed the site of the shows was just a swinger’s club. Six adults have been charged in the case, including a parent of children involved; two were convicted and another will be tried today. All three face life in prison. More »
  
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  Texas • crime • child abuse • sexual abuse • sexual assault • Vicodin
- Quaid to Hollywood: I'm Outta Here
  
  newser | OK! | Jun 16, 08 1:03 PM CDT
  
  Actor Dennis Quaid is heading for the hills—no, make that the plains—of Texas with his family, OK! reports. He’s relocating to his hometown, Houston, to be nearer friends and family, Quaid says, not quitting the business. More »
  
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  California • film • Texas • Hollywood • family • celebrity parents • Houston • Dennis Quaid • relocation
- Supreme Court to Hear $79M Cigarette Verdict for 3rd Time
  
  newser | Oregonian (Portland) | Jun 9, 08 1:04 PM CDT
  
  The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a third appeal of Oregon’s $79.5-million punitive-damage award against Philip Morris. The justices have twice sent the verdict back to Oregon’s high court, part of an effort to limit punitive damages to nine times the size of compensatory damages. This time, the AP reports, they will consider only whether Oregon courts ignored their previous ruling. More »
  
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  Texas • US Supreme Court • Philip Morris • Altria • punitive damages
- Fire Guts Mansion of Texas Governor
  
  newser | Austin American-Statesman | Jun 8, 08 7:30 PM CDT
  
  Texas officials are crying arson after a fire ripped through the Texas Governor's Mansion today, the Austin-American Statesman reports. Flames gutted parts of the building and damaged the roof, but destroyed no artifacts, as the building had been emptied for renovations. Gov. Rick Perry and President Bush expressed their grief while state officials vowed to obtain security video and catch the arsonist. More »
  
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  Texas • governor • arson • fire • Rick Perry
- NFL Steroid Dealer's Death Called Suicide
  
  newser | Dallas Morning News | Jun 7, 08 6:15 AM CDT
  
  Convicted steroid dealer David Jacobs’ death has been ruled a suicide, the Dallas Morning News reports. Authorities say Jacobs, 35, shot himself in the stomach and head. Officials also found some 150 containers of steroids in his Texas home. The medical examiner has not yet explained the death of Jacobs’ girlfriend, whose body was found with his, apparently shot several times. More »
  
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  NFL • murder • Texas • steroids • suicide • drug dealer • bodybuilder • David Jacobs
- NFL Steroids Dealer, Girlfriend Shot to Death
  
  newser | Dallas Morning News | Jun 6, 08 11:25 AM CDT
  
  Convicted steroids dealer and bodybuilder David Jacobs and his girlfriend have been found shot to death to death in his Texas home. Jacobs, 35, who got probation after cooperating with investigators, recently met with NFL officials to discuss his client list. The couple had a volatile relationship, but police would not say whether the case was a murder-suicide, the Dallas Morning News reports. More »
  
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  murder • Texas • steroids • Dallas Cowboys • drug dealer • bodybuilder • David Jacobs
- Anti-Evolution Groups Change Texas Tactics
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 4, 08 2:02 PM CDT
  
  Evolution opponents are adapting. Now that “intelligent design” and “creation science” have failed in court, the new catch phrase, the New York Times reports, is “strengths and weaknesses.” It might seem innocuous, but critics say it’s yet another tactic to undermine the teaching of evolution in schools. Evolution opponents are insisting that curriculum discuss the flaws in Darwin’s theory. More »
  
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  Texas • education • evolution • Charles Darwin • creationism • intelligent design

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