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Texas stories: 343 news summaries

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Ex-FLDS Member Wants Hard Time for Polygamists

Author: Texas hung Eldorado kids out to dry

Jun 23, 09 1:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Former FLDS member Flora Jessop is “hoping against hope” that the men charged with child abuse at the polygamist compound in Eldorado get harder time than those convicted  in similar crimes elsewhere, she told the Houston Chronicle. “Thirteen days, 45 days, nine months,” says Jessop,... More »

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Texas • Arizona • child abuse • polygamy • Utah • FLDS • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints • Eldorado • polygamists • child marriage

 Mexican Cartels 
 Lure US Teens to Kill 

Boys as young as 13 become smugglers, assassins

Jun 23, 09 7:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The powerful cartels that control the drug trade in Mexico increasingly have help north of the border—in the form of American teenagers, some as young as 13, who work as smugglers and assassins. The New York Times profiles one boy, who was recruited by the Gulf Cartel to kill... More »

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Texas • crime • Mexico • murder • Mexican drug war • drug cartel • Laredo, Texas • drug smuggling

(Newser) - The Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge to the completion of the border fence between the US and Mexico, Fox News reports. Environmental groups, an Indian tribe, and the city of El Paso brought the challenge, contending that a fence will cut off access to the Rio Grande... More »

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Texas • Mexico • Department of Homeland Security • Michael Chertoff • El Paso • border fence • US Supreme Court • American Indian • Ysleta del Sur Pueblo tribe

(Newser) - Former President Bush is gradually reentering life as a private citizen in Texas, Newsweek reports, but he's doing it gingerly and on his own terms. While many Texans agree that Dubya's still the friendly, aw-shucks guy they sent to Washington eight years ago, he's definitely keeping clear of dissent.... More »

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Bush administration • Texas • Dallas • Bush approval ratings • Bush legacy • presidential library • George W. Bush

OPINION

Web Didn't Kill Sportswriting; Lame, Humorless Writers Did

Writers today just don't know how to have fun

May 14, 09 10:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - When the working day is done, sportswriters just wanna have fun—or at least they did 50 years ago, when hot-type dinosaurs like Gary Cartwright and his gonzo cohorts roamed Dallas in capes and leotards pretending to be Italian acrobats. But today’s mirthless philistines are doing more to butcher... More »

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sports • media • Internet • newspaper • Texas • Dallas • reporter • sports writer • Gary Cartwright • Blackie Sherrod

 Stress 'Broke' 
 Soldier Shooter: Dad 

Father of sergeant in Iraq 'fratricide' case speaks out

May 13, 09 4:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - The stunned father of the soldier accused of killing five fellow service members in Iraq tells a local TV station his son snapped under stress. John Russell—a technician who used robots to detonate roadside bombs—thought the military was trying to force him out, and told his wife that... More »

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Iraq • Texas • Baghdad • John Russell • shooting • Jay-ZTV • Wilburn Russell

Docs Prep for Hurricane Ike Baby 'Boomlet'

Houston expects surge in births 9 months after storm cut power

May 12, 09 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Houston hospital is bracing for a baby boom due 9 months after Hurricane Ike cut power to the region for days, the Chronicle reports. “There’s about a 25% increase in the number of deliveries coming up in mid-June to mid-July,” said one doctor. Another physician is... More »

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Texas • hurricane • baby boom • baby boomlet • disaster • Hurricane Ike

Federal Judge Gets 3 Years in Sex Abuse Case

Congressmen press for resignation of Kent in first-ever such case

May 12, 09 9:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Texas judge was sentenced yesterday to 33 months in prison for lying to investigators in the first sex abuse case ever against a sitting federal judge, the AP reports. Samuel Kent pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in February; five sex-crimes charges related to two female employees were dismissed.... More »

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Texas • prison • crime • sexual harassment • sexual abuse • judge • obstruction of justice • guilty plea • molestation • Samuel Kent

 Polygamy Sect Struggling for Funds to Battle Charges

Church loses funds as it fights legal battles

May 11, 09 3:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Members of a cash-strapped Texas polygamous sect plan to argue this week that key evidence against them should be thrown out because it was illegally obtained, the Wall Street Journal reports. Authorities say the diaries, photos, and documents they seized prove that underage marriages took place on the FLDS ranch,... More »

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Texas • crime • sexual abuse • polygamy • FLDS • polygamists • criminal trial

Texas Cop Fired for Overkill Investigation

Sheriff's lieutenant shut down car wash over wife's missing $16

May 7, 09 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Texas sheriff’s lieutenant has been fired for using police resources to investigate the alleged theft of $16 from his wife at a local car wash, the Houston Chronicle reports. Louis Guthrie and a group of deputies taped off the establishment for an hour to question employees. “This... More »

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Texas • theft • Houston • car wash • sheriff • abuse of power • misconduct • fired

Texas Beachcombers Find $500K Worth of Cocaine 

Couple looking for seashells discover huge washed-up drug haul

May 7, 09 1:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - A couple hunting for seashells and shark teeth on a Texas beach this week stumbled across 53 pounds of pure cocaine in neatly wrapped packages, KFDM News reports. The haul has a street value of some $500,000, according to local cops. They believe it was probably chucked overboard by... More »

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Texas • cocaine • beach • drug traffickers

(Newser) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s stand against the intrusion of federal power on states’ rights is straight from an 1832 playbook, Ed Kilgore writes for the Democratic Strategist. And the argument John C. Calhoun made then is still wrong. Miffed that the GOP is out of power, Kilgore writes, Perry... More »

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Texas • Rick Perry • secession • Federal government • states' rights • nullification • John C. Calhoun

Second US Flu Victim Gave Birth Last Week

Texas teacher's family mourns as deadly outbreak wanes

May 6, 09 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Texas woman who died yesterday after suffering from swine flu was a teacher who gave birth to a healthy baby girl last week by Cesarean section, the AP reports. Judy Trunnell, 33, was hospitalized after she had difficulty breathing 2 weeks ago and later fell into a coma. Texas... More »

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Texas • Mexico • coma • cesarean section • swine flu • H1N1 virus • Judy Trunnell • Harlingen, Texas

(Newser) - Texas health officials said today that a US woman who lived near the Mexico border has died from swine flu—the second death in the nation and first of a US resident, USA Today reports. The news, however, comes amid continued confidence that the H1N1 virus remains relatively mild here,... More »

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Texas • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • epidemic • public schools • pandemic • swine flu

Natural Gas Finds Could Herald Energy Shift in US

Discoveries speed
push to replace coal, oil

Apr 30, 09 8:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - A huge natural-gas discovery in Louisiana, on the heels of similar finds elsewhere over the past decade, is fueling a push to shift the nation’s energy portfolio, the Wall Street Journal reports. Louisiana’s Haynesville Shale could hold the energy equivalent of 18 years of current US oil production;... More »

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Texas • Louisiana • natural gas • T. Boone Pickens • foreign oil • energy independence • energy policy • Haynesville Shale • Barnett Shale

Texas Schools Cancel
Sports as Flu Spreads

Some schools shut entirely

Apr 29, 09 2:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - All Texas high schools are canceling sports and academic competitions until May 11 to prevent swine flu from spreading, and five school districts have canceled classes altogether, the Houston Chronicle reports. "Altering the schedule of our events is a way to keep our participants safe," said a state... More »

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high school • Texas • public health • high school sports • swine flu

 Child in Texas Is 
 1st US Swine Flu Death 

Fatality is first outside Mexico since outbreak began

Apr 29, 09 5:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 23-month-old child in Texas has become the first person in the US to die of swine flu, a government official said today. The death of the boy, who traveled from Mexico to seek medical treatment, is the first to take place outside Mexico, where the outbreak began, Reuters reports.... More »

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Texas • public health • outbreak • influenza • child • swine flu

 Perry Asks Feds 
 for Swine Flu Meds 

Seems like only yesterday he was talkin' 'bout a secession

Apr 26, 09 3:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Turning sharply from tea party-inspired talk of secession, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is responding to three known cases of swine flu in his state by asking the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to hand over 37,430 precautionary doses of antiviral meds, the San Marcos Daily Record reports.... More »

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Texas • disease • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • Rick Perry • virus • antiviral drugs • swine flu

ANALYSIS

Go Ahead
and Mess
With Texas

Nate Silver does electoral math for 5
Lone Star States

Apr 24, 09 11:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - An obscure provision of Texas statehood gives it the right to split into five smaller states, writes Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com. He outlines the potential new entities:
  1. New Texas: Centered on Austin, as populous as Kentucky, and split down the middle politically—city vs. suburbs.
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Barack Obama • John McCain • Texas • Dallas • Austin • Houston • Rick Perry • Fort Worth • secession • Rio Grande • Arlington, Texas

Mom: Bible Says Kids' Shirts Can Be Untucked

Wins daughter's school dress-code battle after citing verse to board

Apr 23, 09 11:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Battling a school for her daughter’s right to attend with an untucked shirt, a Texas woman cited the Bible, which calls for women to “adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and moderation,” the Dallas Morning News reports. “I don’t want her behind showing,”... More »

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Texas • Christianity • dress code • student • Bible • elementary school • school board • school uniforms

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