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The Lone Star State

"There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else." - Pete Hamill

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May 2008
- Polygamy Kids Could Be Back Home in 10 Days
  
  newser | Time | May 23, 08 4:57 AM CDT
  
  Yesterday's surprise court ruling in favor of a polygamous sect has Texas authorities scrambling, Time reports. An appeals judge ruled that the state had no right to seize children suspected of being sexually abused from the Yearning for Zion ranch. Officials now must appeal the ruling or return the children within 10 days More »
- Texas Court: Return Kids to Polygamy Sect
  
  newser | Houston Chronicle | May 22, 08 3:27 PM CDT
  
  A Texas appeals court found today that authorities, acting on "no evidence," and supported only by a "general allegation" of impropriety, should not have removed more than 460 children from a polygamist compound, the Dallas Morning News reports. The panel also said a local court "abused its discretion" in authorizing an April 3 raid and ordered the children returned. More »
- 10 of Sect's 'Child Brides' Are Adults
  
  newser | Houston Chronicle | May 21, 08 3:00 PM CDT
  
  Texas authorities have admitted that 10 of the "children" taken into custody from the Eldorado polygamist sect are actually adults—including one who is 27—and more could be reclassified this week, reports the Houston Chronicle . This development could weaken the Child Protective Services' case that the sect was forcing underage girls into marriage and sex. More »
- $10M Bond Allows Guru to Leave US
  
  newser | Austin American-Statesman | May 20, 08 5:40 PM CDT
  
  A Hindu guru charged with groping two underage girls will be permitted to leave the country, despite 20 counts of indecency, after a follower put up $10 million to guarantee his return. Given how much money's involved, the arrangement to allow Prakashanand Saraswati—known as Swami Ji—passage to India is unprecedented, legal experts told the Austin American-Statesman . More »
- Sect Parents Slam 'Vague' Custody Plans
  
  newser | Associated Press | May 20, 08 5:53 AM CDT
  
  Hearings for the biggest child custody case in American history began yesterday and members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints weren't happy with proceedings, the AP reports. Parents of the more than 460 children in state custody complained that the court's recommendations were too generalized and showed them no clear way to get their kids back. More »
- Texas Boy, 7, Killed by Pit Bulls
  
  newser | Abilene Reporter-News | May 19, 08 2:10 PM CDT
  
  A 7-year-old Texas boy was apparently mauled to death yesterday by two pit bulls, writes the Abilene Reporter. Police responding to a 911 call discovered Tanner Joshua Monk’s body on the side of a road, with two dogs nearby. The deputies were forced to kill the dogs, which belonged to a neighbor of Monk’s family, when the animals attacked them. More »
- Hudson Cozies Up to Lance Armstrong
  
  newser | People | May 19, 08 8:52 AM CDT
  
  Owen Wilson-tease Kate Hudson has quickly turned her attentions to a different Texan, reports People. Serial-celeb dater Lance Armstrong, who seduced 21-year-old Ashley Olsen after dumping Sheryl Crow, took the bubbly actress out for dinner in Austin Friday and Saturday nights—even introducing her to his three kids. The duo also attended a party together in New York on Thursday. More »
- Huge Polygamist Custody Case Divvied Up Today
  
  newser | Houston Chronicle | May 19, 08 5:02 AM CDT
  
  The mammoth custody case of more than 400 children seized from a polygamist ranch in Texas will be broken up into individual cases today, the Houston Chronicle reports. Each will examine whether parents can demonstrate that their children will be safe from abuse before they can win them back from state custody. The process is complicated by the fact that more than 100 children haven’t yet been matched with parents. More »
- Bees may have stung man to death
  
  KVUE | May 19, 08
  
  An elderly Austin man was found dead at his home with more than 50 bee stings to his body.The 81-year-old man lived on the 1700 block of Barbara Street. Police say he was mowing his lawn around 10:45 Saturday morning when he was stung more than 50 times by bees.
- Rangers, Hamilton Smack Astros
  
  newser | Associated Press | May 16, 08 11:42 PM CDT
  
  Josh Hamilton went 5-for-5 with two long homers and five RBIs, and the Texas Rangers, with six home runs total, beat the Houston Astros 16-8 Friday night in a wild Lone Star Series opener. Ian Kinsler scored the go-ahead run in the seventh inning on a close play that led to the ejection of Astros manager Cecil Cooper. More »
- VA Doctor Discouraged Post-Traumatic Diagnoses
  
  newser | Washington Post | May 16, 08 9:55 AM CDT
  
  A team leader at a veterans' medical center in Texas sent staffers an email urging them to avoid diagnosing post-traumatic stress disorder, the Washington Post reports. "Given that we are having more and more compensation-seeking veterans, I'd like to suggest that you refrain from giving a diagnosis of PTSD straight out," wrote the psychologist, suggesting a milder condition be diagnosed instead. More »
- Best Place to Live? Charlotte
  
  newser | MarketWatch | May 15, 08 2:06 PM CDT
  
  Charlotte is the best place to live in America, thanks to an affordable array of housing options and a healthy economy, says Relocate.com’s annual list. MarketWatch runs down the rest of the list: San Antonio, Texas Chattanooga, Tenn. Greenville, SC Tulsa, Okla. More »
- Hard Choice for Polygamy Moms: Your Cult or Your Kids
  
  newser | Dallas Morning News | May 15, 08 4:30 AM CDT
  
  Mothers from the Yearning for Zion polygamist compound in Texas may have to distance themselves from their religion—or face not getting their children back, the Dallas Morning News reports. Texas officials have prepared a list of goals the women need to work toward to prove they can provide a home free from the risk of child sexual abuse—and the guidelines may be unworkable under the sect's communal living arrangements. More »
- Crazy Ants Munch Through Houston
  
  newser | Associated Press | May 15, 08 3:12 AM CDT
  
  Houston, you have an ant problem. Billions of ravenous ants have invaded the city and are chomping their way through the city's electrical equipment, causing shorts and failure, AP reports. The previously unknown species—dubbed "crazy raspberry ants"—apparently arrived in Texas on a cargo ship. The invading army is resistant to conventional ant pesticides. More »
- M's Avoid Sweep, Beat Rangers in 12
  
  newser | Associated Press | May 14, 08 10:41 PM CDT
  
  Miguel Cairo had a two-out RBI single in the 12th inning, and the Seattle Mariners beat Texas 4-3 on Wednesday to avoid a sweep and keep the Rangers from reaching .500. Wladimir Balentien led off the 12th with a single off Franklyn German (1-2), and Yuniesky Betancourt sacrificed. Balentien moved to third on a deep flyout by Ichiro Suzuki, who went 0-for-6 and ended a 13-game hitting streak. More »
- Court Tosses $32M Verdict Against Vioxx
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | May 14, 08 1:29 PM CDT
  
  A Texas appellate court threw out a $32 million verdict against Merck today, citing a lack of evidence that Vioxx contributed to a man’s fatal heart attack. Lionel Garza was taking the painkiller when he died in 2001 at age 71, but was also a smoker with high blood pressure and high cholesterol, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Garza case was decided by verdict in 2006, and was excluded from a recent $4.85 billion settlement for 27,000 Vioxx cases. More »
- Surging Rangers Top Mariners
  
  newser | Associated Press | May 13, 08 11:32 PM CDT
  
  Ramon Vazquez hurt the Seattle Mariners for the second straight night. Vazquez drove in the go-ahead run with a sixth-inning sacrifice fly and the surging Texas Rangers beat Seattle 5-2 on Tuesday night. Vazquez went deep in the 10th inning Monday night to give the Rangers a 13-12 victory over the Mariners in the opener of the three-game series. More »
- Pro-McCain Pastor Apologizes to Catholics
  
  newser | Politico | May 13, 08 6:24 PM CDT
  
  A Texas preacher whose anti-Catholic comments were haunting John McCain's campaign apologized today, and the president of the Catholic League accepted, Politico reports. In an apparent effort to avert a GOP version of the Jeremiah Wright situation, John Hagee wrote a letter about his "deep regret for any comments that Catholics have found hurtful"; those comments included referring to the faith as a "Godless theology." More »
- Air Passenger Charged After Not Ending Call
  
  newser | Dallas Morning News | May 13, 08 11:31 AM CDT
  
  An air passenger was charged yesterday with disorderly conduct after refusing to stop talking on his cell phone on a flight from Austin to Dallas. A spokesman for Joe David Jones' company told the Dallas Morning News the businessman was trying to reach the hospital where his father was being treated after going into cardiac arrest. More »
- Polygamist 'Teen' Gives Birth
  
  newser | Salt Lake Tribune | May 13, 08 4:09 AM CDT
  
  Another young woman taken from a Texas polygamist sect has given birth while in state custody. The mom has claimed to be 22 years old, but state officials say she is only 17, reports the Salt Lake Tribune. More »

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Background

Sam(uel) Houston
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

(born March 2, 1793, Rockbridge county, Va., U.S.—died July 26, 1863, Huntsville, Texas) U.S. politician. After the death of his father in 1807, Houston moved with his family to a farm in rural Tennessee. In his mid-teens he ran away and lived for nearly three years with the Cherokee Indians. ...

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Ann Willis Richards
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Ann Willis Richards 1933-2006, American politician, b. Lakeview, Tex., as Dorothy Ann Willis. She began her career in politics in the early 1970s after having raised four children. A Democrat, she served as county commissioner in Travis co., Tex. from 1977 to 1982. Richards was elected to the ...

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George W(alker) Bush
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(born July 6, 1946, New Haven, Conn., U.S.) Governor of Texas (1995–2000) and 43rd president of the U.S. (from 2001). The eldest child of George Bush, the 41st president of the U.S. (1989–93), George W. Bush attended Yale University and Harvard Business School. After spending a decade in ...

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George (Herbert Walker) Bush
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(born June 12, 1924, Milton, Mass., U.S.) 41st president of the U.S. (1989–93). Bush was the son of Prescott Bush, an investment banker and U.S. senator from Connecticut. He served in World War II as a torpedo bomber pilot on aircraft carriers in the Pacific, flying some 58 combat missions; ...

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Lyndon B(aines) Johnson
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

(born Aug. 27, 1908, Gillespie county, Texas, U.S.—died Jan. 22, 1973, San Antonio, Texas) 36th president of the U.S. (1963–69). He taught school in Houston, Texas, before going to Washington, D.C., in 1932 as a congressional aide. In Washington he was befriended by Sam Rayburn, speaker ...

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the Alamo
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

the Alamo [Span.,=cottonwood], building in San Antonio, Tex., "the cradle of Texas liberty." Built as a chapel after 1744, it is all that remains of the mission of San Antonio de Valero, which was founded in 1718 by Franciscans and later converted into a fortress. In the Texas Revolution, San ...

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Texas
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Texas , largest state in the coterminous United States. It is located in the S Central part of the country and is bounded by Oklahoma, across the Red R. except in the Texas panhandle (N); Arkansas (NE); Louisiana, across the Sabine R. (E); the Gulf of Mexico (SE); Mexico, across the Rio Grande R. ...

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Kinky Friedman
Wikipedia

Richard S. "Kinky" Friedman (born November 1, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain[1]. He was one of two independent candidates in the 2006...

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