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Worst police sketch of all time manages to lead to arrest
A police sketch dubbed the ‘worst ever’ has amazingly led to an arrest. Glenn Rundles from Paris, Texas was arrested on Tuesday after a patrolman from the local sheriff’s department claimed he recognised the man from the cartoon-like depiction. Lamar County Sheriff’s Department had released the picture last week in the hope of tracking down the mugging suspect and it received lots of publicity… but for all the wrong reasons.
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Texas Sunset
Maybe everything is bigger in Texas–including sunsets
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Exclusive: Islamist Terror Enclave Discovered in Texas
FBI documents obtained by Clarion confirm the find and show the U.S. government’s concern about its links to terrorism.
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12 Texas Bands You Should Listen To Now
12 up-and-coming bands from Texas you should pay attention to, from the Paste 50 States Project.
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Twitter pounces on Texas GOP senator's 'ONE MAN & ONE MAN' tweet
Dan Patrick most certainly does not think same-sex marriage should be legal in Texas.
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Texas ban on same-sex marriage struck down by federal judge
Texas became the latest state in which a federal judge struck down a ban on same-sex marriage.
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Texas police defend DUI arrest of black man who blew 0.00 on Breathalyzer
Police in Texas are standing by their drunken driving arrest of a man whose Breathalyzer and blood tests showed no evidence of intoxication. Larry Davis was arrested Jan. 13, 2013, by Austin police after he ran a stop sign and, according to arresting officers, appeared to be intoxicated during a field sobriety test.
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An autopsy ruled the death of the man with slit throat and missing ear as accidental.
Volunteer searchers found the body of Alfred Wright, a 28-year-old physical therapist from Jasper, Texas, on Nov. 25 in a field 25 yards from the Sabine County, Texas, liquor store where he was last seen on Nov. 7. Searchers found him missing an ear and some teeth. His throat was slit. Some reports indicate both eyes also were gone.
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Oil spill cleanup efforts continue off Texas Gulf shore
Four skimming boats surrounded a partially submerged barge on Sunday at the entrance to the Houston Ship Channel, working to clean up fuel spilled from the vessel into Galveston
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Texas teen gives police officer parking ticket
A Texas teenager recently decided to stick it to the man when she saw a police car illegally parked in her neighborhood — and wound up with a reward for keeping a cop in line. Annie James, a 14-year-old from Baytown, Tex., issued a handwritten $10 parking ticket to Officer Tommy King, whose patrol car was parked in a fire zone in the Bay Oaks apartment complex.
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Severe storms, tornadoes rip Midwest, South
Thunderstorms were crawling across a large swath of the Midwest and South on Thursday, spawning suspected tornadoes in Missouri and Texas.
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Year after blast, Texas town ponders new plant
Leaders in a Central Texas town devastated last year by a deadly fertilizer plant explosion are contemplating building a new one, calling it a crucial step in West's economic recovery.
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Texas may well have killed an innocent man
ON THE morning of December 23rd 1991 a fire destroyed a home in Corsicana, Texas shared by Cameron Todd Willingham, his wife and their three daughters. The fire killed the girls; Mrs Willingham was at the Salvation Army store shopping for Christmas gifts. Mr Willingham survived. The next year he was convicted of setting the fire. He was sentenced to death and executed in 2004.
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Texas clinic said dog had to be killed, then kept it alive for 6 months of experiments
A Texas veterinary is under investigation after a family said that their dog was still alive and being used for blood transfusions six month after doctors told them the animal had to be euthanized. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that Marian Harris and her family had brought their dog, Sid, to the Camp Bowie Animal Clinic in May 2013 to deal with a common anal gland problem.
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This week’s extreme weather spotlights nation’s feast and famine water situation
The storm that unleashed torrents of rain from Pensacola to New York has cast light on a remarkable precipitation disparity between the eastern and western U.S.
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Texas Family's Nuisance Complaint Seen As Win Against Fracking
A jury awarded nearly $3 million to the Parrs, who say leaks at a natural gas site made them ill. The family won the suit without having to prove that the drilling company broke environmental laws.
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How Texas Keeps Putting the Intellectually Disabled on Death Row
Two hours before he was supposed to be executed in Texas Tuesday night, a federal appeals court granted Robert James Campbell a stay of execution after deciding that new evidence of intellectual disability was “more than sufficient” to merit further consideration. Campbell, now 41, arrived on death row at age 19 after he was convicted of abduction, rape, and murder in 1991. His lawyers say that state files recovered in recent weeks include IQ tests indicating an IQ of 68...
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Chipotle to customers: Leave your guns outside
Chipotle is asking customers not to bring firearms into its stores after it says gun rights advocates brought military-style assault rifles into one of its restaurants in Texas. The Denver-based company notes that it has traditionally complied with local laws regarding open and concealed firearms.
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Open Carry Texas visits Sonic Drive-In
Gun activists flaunting assault rifles get booted From Chili's and Sonic as a backlash grows, open-carry groups in Texas beat a retreat.
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Texas restaurant bans gay couple, gets destroyed on Yelp
It's now the "greatest gay bar west of New Orleans."
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