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Religion Clause (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
As previously reported , last week a jury in a state court in Texas convicted FLDS Church leader Raymond Jessop of sexually assaulting a 16-year old who he had taken as one of his nine wives. A hearing on sentencing was held on Monday, and yesterday, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, the jury deliberated for six hours before imposing a sentence of ten years in prison and an $8000 fine on Jessop....
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
Junco, known as "Yogi," was confronted at his Houston home by several men connected to a prison gang who had targeted him for robbery. Court documents showed the June 1999 holdup was a test devised by Valle to see if one of the gang members, Kenneth Isaac Estrada, had the courage to shoot Junco.
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 24 minutes ago
SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Learning loss of academic skills and knowledge often takes place during summer months while students are on vacation. This is commonly referred to as “summer learning loss,” where academic gains made during the school year may not continue across the summer and into the following school year. Students from low income backgrounds may be especially vulnerable...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Texas Children’s Hospital is the nation’s first pediatric hospital to discharge a child while on an intracorporeal ventricular assist device (VAD), a feat previously accomplished only at adult institutions. The patient, 16-year-old Francisco “Frank” De Santiago, who was implanted with a mechanical heart pump called the HeartMate II on May 19, 2009,...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Members of the governing board and other divisions of the UNT System will formally announce their relocation from Denton to the Universities Center in downtown Dallas on Friday evening in the center's lobby. The UNT System consists of the UNT campus in Denton, the UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth, The Universities Center in Dallas and the UNT Dallas campus. Also Online Administrators and employees...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Members of the governing board and other divisions of the UNT System will formally announce their relocation from Denton to the Universities Center in downtown Dallas on Friday evening in the center's lobby. The UNT System consists of the UNT campus in Denton, the UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth, The Universities Center in Dallas and the UNT Dallas campus. Also Online Administrators and employees...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Investigators say the pilot of a Florida-bound plane that crashed last month in South Texas had three weather briefings before takeoff.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | yesterday
HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A Cuban-born man identified as a leader in a Hispanic prison gang was executed Tuesday evening for the robbery-slaying of a Houston drug dealer more than 10 years ago. Yosvanis "El Cubano" Valle, 34, had denied fatally shooting 28-year-old Jose Martin Junco at a Houston home in June 1999 but said there was little he could do to avoid lethal injection once he lost...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | yesterday
AUSTIN – Texas is easing a requirement that most families on food stamps must be interviewed every six months, a step that will relieve pressure on the system for determining who receives state aid, officials said Tuesday.The state Health and Human Services Commission also has reassigned about 140 veteran eligibility workers in Dallas and Houston to join front-line workers in taking applications...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded researchers at Rice University and the Texas Heart® Institute (THI) a $1 million Challenge Grant to refine cell-tracking nanotube technology that could make magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) up to 40 times more sensitive than existing MRIs and help guide adult stem cells within the human body to repair damaged hearts....
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Burnt Orange Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
This morning, I attended the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee hearing. The hearing was called, largely, to hear testimony from the new Texas Forensic Science Commission Chairman, John Bradley. Two things strike me as clear after attending the hearing: The Democrats on the Senate Criminal Justice Committee -- Chairman John Whitmire, Senator Rodney Ellis, and Senator Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa...
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
TYLER, Texas - Police said an East Texas man has outsmarted himself in trying to get a quicker response from officers to an alleged assault. Tyler police said 38-year-old Mark Anthony Johnson called 911 on Monday night and reported that he'd just committed a homicide and was armed with a weapon.
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Texas Moratorium Network (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cuban native Yosvanis Valle, 34, is set for lethal injection this evening in Huntsville for Junco’s robbery and slaying. He would become the 21st prisoner executed this year in Texas. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review Valle’s case this year. His appeals exhausted, his lawyers lost a petition last week to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles asking that Valle’s death sentence...
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
The president and first lady Michelle Obama began an afternoon of consolation by meeting privately with family members of those killed last week and with those wounded in the attack and their families. Obama used his public remarks to put a human face on those who perished, victims ranging in age from 19 to 62. He also used his platform to speak directly to questions about whether the alleged shooter...
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Fox News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Friends and relatives of a Texas man who shot his family and then himself say that he was hallucinating and growing increasingly violent because he was off his medication.
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kalyanim | 11/07/2009
A 5.7-millimeter pistol used in the Fort Hood shooting was purchased legally by suspect Nidal Hasan at a Texas gun shop
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