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Stories Tagged With Texas

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Texas Governor Rick Perry Stays in $10k/month Rental

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The Governor's Mansion is being renovated, so he has to stay somewhere else.
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SWAT Team Investigates "Bunker" in East Austin

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Don't know what the journalist's angle was here, but I'm happy that the commenters saw right through it. I normally don't state my opinion in the pikk, but this is overkill and we should call the city to the floor for authorizing this gross violation of privacy. OVERKILL.
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Texas Governor Perry Shoots Coyote

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It's not so much the headline, rather the other content in the article that got my attention.
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Taxpayer-funded snacks nixed for monitors

Slow news day in Austin. Was it right to ban use of tax money for snacks?
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Texas Paddlin' is working- discipline problems way down

Since paddling was brought back to the city's 14 schools by a unanimous board vote in May, behavior at Temple's single high school has changed dramatically, Wright said, even though only one student in the school system has been paddled. "The discipline problem is much better than it's been in years," Wright said, something he attributed to the new punishment and to other discipline programs schools are trying. Residents of the city's comfortable homes, most of which sport neighborly, worn chairs out front, praise the change.
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Texas Congressman yelled "Baby Killer!"

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Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-TX) has come forward and admitted that he was the one who yelled "baby killer" during the House debate on the health care bill last night.
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Let's give this guy a big Hero vote

Robin De Haven was driving the company truck to a job when he saw something that didn't look right - a small plane, flying extremely low over a heavily congested area of Austin.
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Texas' gay marriage ban may have banned all marriages

Architects of the amendment included the clause to ban same-sex civil unions and domestic partnerships. But Radnofsky, who was a member of the powerhouse Vinson & Elkins law firm in Houston for 27 years until retiring in 2006, says the wording of Subsection B effectively "eliminates marriage in Texas," including common-law marriages.
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Clerk steals winning lottery ticket, cashes it, flees country

Investigators say they believe a 25-year-old convenience store clerk claimed $1 million in lottery winnings that belonged to a customer, then disappeared. Police say the clerk told the customer he had won $2 -- not the $1 million he had actually won.
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Should he get a new trial because of the judge-prosecutor affair?

This guy was convicted and sent to death row and it was later revealed that the judge and prosecutor were having a 20 year affair that either ended 2 years prior to the trial or a year after the trial. This was a jury trial and sentencing.
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Feud b/w 2 familes erupts into riot- guess the state A) AL B) TX

Two XXXXXXX families that had been fighting for years turned their feud into a full-scale riot Monday outside a small-town city hall, with up to 150 screaming people hurling tire irons and wielding baseball bats. Eight people were arrested, and at least four were hurt, Trooper John Reese said. Two were taken to hospitals. The town's police chief was hit in the head with a crowbar but was OK.
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That guy Texas executed for arson probably didn't do it.

In a withering critique, a nationally known fire scientist has told a state commission on forensics that Texas fire investigators had no basis to rule a deadly house fire was an arson -- a finding that led to the murder conviction and execution of Cameron Todd Willingham. The finding comes in the first state-sanctioned review of an execution in Texas, home to the country's busiest death chamber. If the commission reaches the same conclusion, it could lead to the first-ever declaration by an official state body that an inmate was wrongly executed.
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