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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Texas stories: 343 news summaries

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Judge Pleads Guilty, Avoids Sex Crime Trial

Kent headed to jail, but won't lose job without impeachment

Feb 23, 09 12:38 PM CST
(Newser) - US District Judge Sam Kent pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice today, as part of a deal that will allow him to duck a messy trial on sex crime charges, the Houston Chronicle reports. He then retired from the bench. “A trial would have been long, embarrassing, and... More »

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Texas • Judiciary Committee • Galveston • federal judges • sex crime • Sam Kent

Lone Star Political Clout Rides Into Sunset

After fifty years of political clout, Texas has lost its primacy as national king-maker

Feb 23, 09 10:13 AM CST
(Newser) - The booming voices of Texas politics have, for the first time in half a century, fallen silent, writes Bryan Burrough in the Washington Post. After vast deposits of oil wealth propelled Lone Star personalities like LBJ and both Bushes to the White House, as well as several influential leaders like... More »

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Texas • Lyndon Johnson • Tom DeLay • Ron Paul • George HW Bush • George W. Bush • Dick Armey

On the 7th Day, States Look to Down Blue Laws

Economy tanked, some seek shot of revenue in Sunday booze sales

Feb 22, 09 3:22 PM CST
(Newser) - Recession blues could swallow blue laws, Time reports. State legislatures in Georgia, Connecticut, Texas, Alabama, and Minnesota hope lifting a ban on Sunday alcohol sales will boost revenues. But Christian activists oppose the move, saying cash-strapped families are already feeling pressure. “I don't think we need to add even... More »

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Texas • alcohol • Georgia • Connecticut • Alabama • Minnesota • liquor • Blue laws

(Newser) - Alleged fraudster R. Allen Stanford may not have been a household name before the SEC accused him of skullduggery yesterday, but not because he’s been keeping a low profile. Calling himself “Sir” Allen Stanford ever since he was knighted in Antigua in 2006, the colorful financier is the... More »

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fraud • Texas • golf • cricket • Antigua • Ponzi scheme • Stanford Financial Group • Robert Allen Stanford

 Peanut Corp Closes Texas Plant 

Firm linked to salmonella outbreak suspends operations at 2nd facility

Feb 10, 09 10:56 AM CST
(AP) - The peanut company at the center of an investigation into a deadly national salmonella outbreak said today that it has suspended operations at a second processing plant. Peanut Corp. of America said in a statement that it was voluntarily suspending operations at its Plainview, Texas, plant while state and federal... More »

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Texas • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • food safety • salmonella • peanut butter • Peanut Corporation of America

(Newser) - A California man who used Google Earth to locate a 19th century Spanish treasure ship is suing for the right to excavate on private land, ABC News reports. Nathan Smith drove to Refugio, Texas, after spotting evidence—what it was isn’t clear—from a satellite photo. The case of... More »

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Google • Texas • Spain • Google Earth • federal courts • shipwreck • treasure • satellite images • excavation • salvage

'Baby Grace' Mother
Gets Life

Trenor found guilty of  murder in daughter's beating death

Feb 3, 09 1:44 AM CST
(Newser) - It took a jury less than two hours to find Kimberly Dawn Trenor guilty of capital murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, the Houston Chronicle reports. Prosecutors declined to seek the death penalty, meaning Trenor, 20, will serve life without parole. "She will die in prison with... More »

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Texas • homicide • toddler • Baby Grace • Royce Clyde Zeigler II • Kimberly Dawn Trenor • Riley Ann Sawyers • beatings • life sentence

Prosecution in 'Baby Grace' Trial to Call Final Witness

Mother faces life in prison for toddler's murder

Feb 2, 09 12:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Prosecutors will call their final witness today in the case against Kimberly Dawn Trenor, the Texas mother accused of beating her 2-year-old daughter to death, the AP reports. The Galveston County medical examiner will testify today as the prosecution finishes presenting evidence that Trenor, 20, with her husband, killed Riley... More »

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Texas • homicide • discipline • toddler • Baby Grace • Royce Clyde Zeigler II • Kimberly Dawn Trenor • Riley Ann Sawyers • beatings • criminal prosecution

Texas Could
See First-Ever Posthumous Exoneration

DNA evidence vindicates dead convict

Feb 1, 09 2:09 PM CST
(Newser) - A hearing this week could result in Texas’ first-ever posthumous exoneration based on DNA evidence, the AP reports. Tim Cole, who died of a heart attack in prison in 1999, was convicted in the 1985 rape of a Texas Tech student. But an imprisoned rapist’s recent admission of guilt,... More »

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Texas • prison • rape • wrongful conviction • exonerate • DNA evidence

Bush Gets Misty-Eyed During Anthem

Ex-president pops up
at women's college
hoops game in Waco

Jan 30, 09 12:30 PM CST
(Newser) - In his first public appearance since Barack Obama’s inauguration, George W. Bush took in a women’s basketball game Wednesday at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, about 25 miles from their Crawford ranch. Bush received applause when he and Laura walked onto the court, and seemed to almost tear... More »

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Texas • basketball • NCAA basketball • Laura Bush • Baylor University • George W. Bush • former presidents • national anthem

(Newser) - Many restaurateurs are struggling these days, but Hooters and a new crop of imitators are seeing their clientele increase, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. Hooters revenues went up 2% from 2007 to 2008, and while the chain is secure—“We’re not looking over our shoulders,” said... More »

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Texas • restaurant • franchise • Hooters

HS Hoop Team Runs Up Score, Then Repents

Christian girls have second thoughts about 100-0 thumping

Jan 23, 09 4:02 PM CST
(Newser) - A Dallas high school whose girls basketball team ran up a 100-0 score last week has forfeited what school officials called a “victory without honor,” the Dallas Morning News reports. The Covenant School, a Christian institution, defeated Dallas Academy, a high school for children with "learning... More »

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Texas • Dallas • high school basketball • landslide victory • learning disabilities • defeat • forfeit • Christian values • Covenant School • Dallas Academy

 Hometown Crowd 
 Greets Bush in Texas 

'We're back, and we're here to stay,' says ex-Prez

Jan 20, 09 8:33 PM CST
(Newser) - George W. and Laura Bush arrived in Texas today amid the cheering of a crowd waving “W” signs, CNN reports. The former first couple touched down in Midland, Laura’s hometown and the former president’s childhood home, as country stars including Rodney Atkins and the Gatlin Brothers performed.... More »

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Texas • Laura Bush • George W. Bush • homecoming

Death Row Inmate Plucks Eye, Eats It

Killer of own family getting mental care
he had 'begged for'

Jan 9, 09 7:00 PM CST
(AP) - A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye and told authorities he ate it, the AP reports. Thomas was treated at an East Texas medical center after the incident last month. He was transferred and remains at a prison psychiatric facility... More »

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Texas • death row • eyes • mutilation

 'Cowboy Church' Lassos 
 New Followers 

Baptists see success with services that feature rodeo riding

Jan 9, 09 3:49 PM CST
(Newser) - Rodeo competitions and baptisms in horse troughs are on offer at the Cowboy Church of Ellis County, Texas, part of a movement that uses an unconventional approach to draw worshippers to the flock, the AP reports. Cowboy churches have existed for 40 years but have grown in popularity in the... More »

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Texas • Christianity • church • Christians • Baptists • Baptist • cowboy

High Court to Hear Challenge to Voting Rights Act

Provision forcing local governments, mainly in South, to clear changes with feds at issue

Jan 9, 09 3:23 PM CST
(Newser) - The US Supreme Court agreed today to hear a case that challenges a central section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act designed to protect minority voters in discriminatory districts, the New York Times reports. Section 5 of the law, which forces many Southern states and select districts elsewhere to get... More »

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John Roberts • Texas • appeal • Austin • Voting Rights Act • US Supreme Court • civil rights movement • racial discrimination

 Hunt-Happy Texas 
 Breeds Deer Smugglers 

Native species not big enough for game enthusiasts; disease risks abound

Jan 8, 09 12:38 PM CST
(Newser) - White-tailed deer are everywhere in Texas, so why is the state struggling with a deer-smuggling industry? “It’s like everything else in society,” one game warden tells Time, “people want bigger, better, faster.” Luxurious lodges charge hunters big bucks for access to reserves full of, well,... More »

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Texas • deer • hunting • smuggler

Mississippi Has Most Teen Pregnancies

State passes Texas
and New Mexico in nationwide uptick

Jan 7, 09 11:41 AM CST
(Newser) - Mississippi has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the US, the AP reports. Some 68 Mississippi women out of 1,000 aged 15-19 got pregnant in 2006—the most recent year for which data are available, and in which the US rate rose for the first time in 15... More »

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pregnancy • Texas • New Mexico • abstinence education • Mississippi • teen pregnancy • celebrity pregnancy • teenager • pregnant women • wowOwow

Bush Wants a Gate to Keep
Public Off His Dallas Street

And public money can foot the bill to do it

Jan 7, 09 10:12 AM CST
(Newser) - President Bush wants to limit access to his new Dallas home by putting up a gate on a public street, the Dallas Morning News reports. City officials must approve the plan, but it seems the Bushes' Preston Hollow neighbors are willing to go along with it. "It's great the... More »

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Texas • Laura Bush • Dallas • inauguration • George W. Bush • former presidents

 Santa Gets 
 Help From 
 Cousin 
 Pancho 

Barrio folk hero sports a lowrider, elf entourage

Dec 24, 08 3:02 PM CST
(Newser) - Santa's been getting a little help from his South Pole cousin, Pancho Claus, the lowrider-driving barrio folk hero who doles out gifts on both sides of the Texas border. Pancho takes different forms—sporting a red zoot suit in Houston and a sombrero and black beard in San Antonio—but... More »

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Texas • Mexico • Houston • San Antonio • Christmas • Santa Claus • Mexican-Americans • Pancho Claus

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