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Nixing funds costs Texas

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:15:55 GMT

AUSTIN -- Democrats said Friday that Republican Gov. Rick Perry played politics at the expense of Texas employers when he rejected $550 million in federal stimulus help for the state's soon-to-be insolvent unemployment insurance trust fund.The fund i ...

Protest putting town on alert

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:05:00 GMT

DALLAS -- Officials in the East Texas town of Paris said Thursday they are preparing for an influx of black separatists and white supremacists at a planned protest next week over the death of a black man who was run over by a truck and dragged.The L ...

Dewhurst adds details to filings

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:15:55 GMT

AUSTIN -- Multimillionaire Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who has drawn criticism for revealing scant details about his vast wealth, amended past financial filings Friday and disclosed information that includes his stake in several investment funds.The Rep ...

Texas among states using GPS in abuse cases

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:15:56 GMT

HOUSTON -- Six months before she was killed, Evairene Flores wrote her entire family in case she died: "Many will miss me, many will cry, but it was because of Matthew that I had to die."Married for 20 years to an abusive husband, Flores divorced Mat ...

Needs a Headline

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:07:46 GMT

Jimmy Johnson's father dies at 90PORT ARTHUR -- The father of Super Bowl-winning football coach and NFL commentator Jimmy Johnson is dead.C.W. Johnson Jr. died Monday at Tomball Regional Medical Center in Tomball, a Houston suburb. He was 90.The fune ...

Ex-baseball coach in Texas gets life for sex abuse

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:00:00 GMT

BELTON, Texas -- A life prison term has been ordered for a former youth baseball coach in Central Texas convicted of sexually abusing boys.A judge in Belton on Thursday sentenced 32-year-old William Thomas Jacobsen, formerly of Little River-Academy.A ...

Trial delayed in Texas child swingers club case

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:59:58 GMT

TYLER, Texas -- The aggravated sexual assault trial of a fourth person charged in an East Texas swingers club linked to children has been delayed.A judge in Tyler on Thursday agreed to continue the case of 46-year-old Dennis Boyd Pittman, who had fac ...

Liquor chief: Agents broke policy in gay-bar raid

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:57:58 GMT

DALLAS -- The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission administrator says two agents committed "clear violations" of agency policy during a recent raid on a Fort Worth gay bar.TABC Administrator Alan Steen made the comments in an interview published in th ...

Judge will allow fight club videos in trial

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:57:57 GMT

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- A state disrict judge will admit into evidence cellphone videos of abuse at a state facility for the developmentally disabled.The videos will be used in the Corpus Christi trial of one of six former employees charged in the ...

Space shuttle Endeavour arrives at space station

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:56:00 GMT

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The space shuttle and space station hooked up Friday after a round-the-world chase, making for the biggest crowd ever gathered together in orbit -- 13 Earthlings.Endeavour docked at the international space station as the two c ...

Public Safety Commission names McCraw DPS head

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:55:56 GMT

AUSTIN, Texas -- Gov. Rick Perry's homeland security czar has been appointed the new director of the Texas Department of Public Safety.The Texas Public Safety Commission offered Steve McCraw the top job in Texas law enforcement on Friday. A statement ...

More states approving GPS in domestic abuse cases

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:55:56 GMT

Rain possible in Texas on Saturday

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:54:00 GMT

A week filled with triple-digit temperatures could finally give way to rain across Texas on Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.A strong chance for rain was possible in North Texas, where forecasters gave a 50 percent chance of shower ...

Feds arrest felon in sale of gun in McNair killing

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:54:00 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Federal prosecutors announced gun charges Friday against a convicted murderer who admitted he sold the pistol that was used to kill ex-NFL quarterback Steve McNair.Adrian J. Gilliam Jr., 33, of LaVergne, Tenn., was arrested by age ...

NASA assesses shuttle damage

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:05:00 GMT

NASA assesses shuttle damage Space shuttle Endeavour's astronauts inspected their ship for damage Thursday as NASA struggled to understand why a normally benign section of the fuel tank lost so much foam during liftoff."We have a bit of a mystery," ...

Perry pulls in slew of large donor checks

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:43:48 GMT

AUSTIN, Texas -- Republican Gov. Rick Perry relied on dozens of checks totaling $50,000 or more in his dash to raise campaign cash in late June to chase Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.Perry tapped some of his past well-known supporters in piling up $4.2 m ...

Vote delayed on F-22 funding

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:05:00 GMT

WASHINGTON -- A bid to cut $1.75 billion recently added to the defense spending bill for more Lockheed Martin fighter jets has stalled in the Senate despite repeated veto threats by the White House.Bowing to pressure from Majority Leader Harry Reid, ...

Cox selling 3 newspapers in Colo., Texas

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:13:00 GMT

DENVER -- Cox Newspapers Inc. has agreed to sell two of its Colorado newspapers and a Texas newspaper for undisclosed terms.The Atlanta-based company said Thursday that it is selling the Daily Sentinel and The Nickel in Grand Junction, Colo., to Gran ...

Texas gas prices fall an average 8 cents a gallon

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:12:00 GMT

IRVING, Texas -- Retail gasoline prices continue to fall across Texas.The weekly AAA Texas survey of 11 Texas cities released Thursday finds that regular self-serve gasoline was selling for an average of $2.34 per gallon. That's eight cents less than ...

NASA refurbishes video copies of moon landing

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:23:54 GMT

WASHINGTON -- NASA still can't find its lost original moon landing videotapes. But that first moonwalk never looked better, thanks to new digitally refurbished copies unveiled Thursday.The original live video was ghostlike and grainy. NASA and a Holl ...

Texas drought worsens since last week

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:21:53 GMT

LUBBOCK,Texas -- Texas continues to grow ever drier, and new data show the state has the most land in the worst stage of drought in nearly a decade.The U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday shows about 18 percent of the state to be in exceptio ...

Texans warned about phony FTC workers, scam

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:45:48 GMT

AUSTIN, Texas -- A phony telemarketing sweepstakes in Texas uses scam artists posing as Federal Trade Commission workers.The Texas Attorney General's Office on Wednesday issued an advisory warning of the scheme.The statement says callers tell recipie ...

Exchanges from the Sotomayor confirmation hearing

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:43:47 GMT

A look at some exchanges during the third day of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings on the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor:------Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas: "You wrote that the law is always in a, quote, necessary state of ...

State to seek death penalty for ex-nurse

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:42:47 GMT

LUFKIN, Texas -- The state will seek the death penalty in the case of a former nurse accused of killing five patients at a Lufkin dialysis clinic with bleach injections.The prosecution announced plans Wednesday during a pre-trial hearing to pursue de ...

Space shuttle blasts off after month's delay

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:41:46 GMT

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- After more than a month's delay, space shuttle Endeavour and seven astronauts thundered into orbit Wednesday on a flight to the international space station, hauling up a veranda for Japan's enormous lab and looking to set a cr ...