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June 11, 2014
The State of Texas: June 11, 2014
An abortion clinic in Corpus Christi closes, and LULAC sues the state.
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June 9, 2014
The State of Texas: June 10, 2014
El Paso homeless shelters asked to help house undocumented immigrants, and Texas astronomers have found an 12-billion-year-old explosion in the sky.
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June 9, 2014
The State of Texas: June 9, 2014
The state GOP convention's straw poll votes Ted Cruz for president, and King George rides away.
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June 6, 2014
The State of Texas: June 6, 2014
#GoSpursGo, and production expenses for farmers have increased by billions.
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June 5, 2014
The State of Texas: June 5, 2014
Testimony concluded for the Fort Hood sergeant accused of running a prostitution ring, and the Texas Forest Service has put out 300 fires this year.
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June 4, 2014
The State of Texas: June 4, 2014
Video of the DayThe season finale of PBS’s The Daytripper—”destinations in Texas for Texans”—has host Chet Garner skimming around the town of Orange.Texas by The numbersEl Paso Horno — Temperature in El Paso on Monday: 104 degrees. Previous high, in 2011: 102 degrees. Temperature on Tuesday: 109 degrees.
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June 3, 2014
The State of Texas: June 3, 2014
Hundreds of unaccompanied children are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley, and Texas companies comprise more than one-tenth of the Forbes 500 list.
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June 2, 2014
The State of Texas: June 2, 2014
An open-carry rally at Home Depot, and UT and A&M see their endowments increase by 70 percent due to the oil boom.
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May 29, 2014
The State of Texas: May 30, 2014
Athens avoids an explosion, and the attorney general's office has declared that the state can keep the source of its execution drug a secret.
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May 28, 2014
The State of Texas: May 28, 2014
Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst is ousted, and investigators in El Paso found out who vandalized two billboards with narco-like messaging.
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May 27, 2014
The State of Texas: May 27, 2014
Today is the last day of runoff elections, and UT baseball goes head-to-head with A&M.
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May 22, 2014
The State of Texas: May 23, 2014
Texas adds more green jobs than nearly every other state, and the border fence could carve up the land of indigenous Texans.
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May 22, 2014
The State of Texas: May 22, 2014
Governor Rick Perry comes out in support of UT Regent Wallace Hall, and San Marcos and Frisco are two of the fastest-growing suburbs in America.
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May 21, 2014
The State of Texas: May 21, 2014
Paris ISD's superintendent rails against STAAR testing, and a 92-year-old woman can't get a voter ID because of the new law.
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May 20, 2014
The State of Texas: May 20, 2014
David Dewhurst responds, and UT Regent Wallace Hall says he will not step down.
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May 19, 2014
The State of Texas: May 19, 2014
San Antonio's mayor tapped to lead H.U.D., and Dan Patrick addresses his medical history.
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May 16, 2014
The State of Texas: May 16, 2014
The UT Board of Regents calls for Wallace Hall's resignation, and Dallas sees challenges for getting the home-rule initiative on the next ballot.
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May 15, 2014
The State of Texas: May 15, 2014
Headline of the Day‘It’s The End Of The World As We Know It, But Health Care’s Fine’— Dallas Business Journal, which understands when to make use of an R.E.M reference.Photo of the DayWe all know how shocking it is to head into
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May 13, 2014
The State of Texas: May 13, 2014
The wildfire that ravaged Fritch has mostly been contained, and Texas will execute its first death-row inmate since the botched execution in Oklahoma.
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May 6, 2014
The State of Texas: May 6, 2014
The home of the "Midwest Depot," a huge cache of weapons used in various military operations around the world, might be in San Antonio's backyard.
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May 1, 2014
The State of Texas: May 1, 2014
The hits keep on coming for the Office of Violent Sex Offender Management, and Texas is put on the defensive after the Oklahoma execution.
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April 30, 2014
The State of Texas: April 30, 2014
TXU Energy files for bankruptcy, and the U.S. Supreme Court rules against the State of Texas.
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April 29, 2014
The State of Texas: April 29, 2014
Toyota is set to move its U.S. headquarters to Plano, and the El Paso Chihuahuas play their first game.
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April 28, 2014
The State of Texas: April 28, 2014
The drought in the Panhandle goes on, and Willie Nelson is inducted into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame.
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April 24, 2014
The State of Texas: April 25, 2014
An appeals court halts the ruling in a same-sex divorce case, and more allegations in the Perry/Lehmberg scandal emerge.
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April 24, 2014
The State of Texas: April 24, 2014
John Cornyn continues his national campaign to renew a federal program that gives grant money to local law enforcement agencies to help battle a backlog of untested rape kit examinations.
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April 23, 2014
The State of Texas: April 23, 2014
Mom Of The DayOccasionally, that ol’ journalistic aphorism about how a dog biting a man isn’t news finds a real-life example that proves that saying wrong. Or in this case, that the opposite is at least true. In March, an Alvin woman bit off a dog’s ear in a effort
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April 22, 2014
The State of Texas: April 22, 2014
Video of the DayIt has not been a good week for local police. Or, perhaps, Texas’s finest have seen finer days. First there was the picture snapped of the motorcycle officer allegedly texting while driving. Now, a Georgetown cop is on paid leave after being filmed tripping and pushing high
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April 21, 2014
The State of Texas: April 21, 2014
Photo of the DayIf texting while driving is bad, then imagine if you’re the San Antonio police officer who was allegedly texting while motorcycling. A passerby snapped a picture of the offense (seen here) and sent the image to SAPD, which they “referred to the Traffic Commander and is currently
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April 18, 2014
The State of Texas: April 18, 2014
Scandal FridaySo much for the scary passages in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It would appear that homework has taken a particularly dark turn. El Paso parents are in an uproar after discovering that a take-home assignment that “involved reading several bleak passages in which a child possibly gets abused,
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April 17, 2014
The State of Texas: April 17, 2014
The one-year anniversary of the West explosion, and Lake Alan Henry is Lubbock is quickly evaporating.
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April 15, 2014
The State of Texas: April 15, 2014
Hidalgo County Sheriff, Lupe Treviño pleaded guilty to money laundering, and Beaumont ISD is being taken over by the state.
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April 14, 2014
The State of Texas: April 14, 2014
Video of the DayJeff Francoeur, outfielder for the El Paso Chihuahuas, is the victim of a rather elaborate, month-long prank involving his entire team, a player’s wife, and even a waitress. Playing on Francoeur’s sincerity, the team convinced him that pitcher Jorge Reyes was deaf. True, there were some
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April 10, 2014
The State of Texas: April 10, 2014
President Barack Obama attended the memorial service for the victims in the recent shooting at Fort Hood, and "literally no one watched this Astros game."
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April 8, 2014
The State of Texas: April 8, 2014
Details of last week's Fort Hood shootings emerge, and the report of the investigation of former UT Regent Wallace Hall is released.
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April 7, 2014
The State of Texas: April 7, 2014
Slideshow of the DayHouston photographer Lokey has combined the best of three worlds—art, trucks, and huntin’—in his series about the various, and variously awesome, vehicles used by Texas quail hunters. It don’t get much better than this.Daily RoundupPortrait of the President as a Young Artist — This week
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March 25, 2014
The State of Texas: March 25, 2014
The Houston Ship Channel remains closed and Rick Perry supports Tesla.
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March 24, 2014
The State of Texas: March 24, 2014
More than 150,000 gallons of crude oil were spilled into the Gulf and Longview pays Ted Nugent $16,000 not to play.
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March 20, 2014
The State of Texas: March 20, 2014
Texas secures more execution drugs and Greg Abbott comes out against legislation that would make it easier for women to file lawsuits for equal pay.
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March 19, 2014
The State of Texas: March 19, 2014
Regulations might thwart Tesla sales in Texas and Texas leads the nation in job growth.
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March 13, 2014
The State of Texas: March 13, 2014
The state's worst intersections and Rick Perry appears on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
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March 12, 2014
The State of Texas: March 12, 2014
More than $600,000 stolen from Joel Osteen's megachurch and Texas regulators ordered an energy company to stop accepting Bitcoin.
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March 10, 2014
The State of Texas: March 10, 2014
Rick Perry gives a rousing speech at CPAC and Lady Gaga set to give keynote speech to little SXSW monsters.
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March 7, 2014
The State of Texas: March 7, 2014
SXSW descends on Austin and since new restrictions have gone into effect, one-third of the state's abortion clinics have closed.
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March 4, 2014
The State of Texas: March 5, 2014
The election results are in and RadioShack closes 1,110 stores.
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March 4, 2014
The State of Texas: March 4, 2014
The primary elections are today.
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March 3, 2014
The State of Texas: March 3, 2014
Matthew McConaughey takes home an Oscar and Bitcoin opens its second ATM in Austin.
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February 28, 2014
The State of Texas: Feb. 28, 2014
Video of the DayHey Girl, here’s the answer: Who is the sexiest Texas football coach? That’s right, the Kliff Kingsbury/Ryan Gosling connection was a question on Wednesday’s Jeopardy!Tweet Prank of The DayThat infamous Twitter account recounting comments made by Goldman Sachs employees on elevators was, like our housing
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February 27, 2014
The State of Texas: Feb. 27, 2014
Judge strikes down gay marriage ban and homelessness is up 60 percent in Tarrant County.
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February 26, 2014
The State of Texas: Feb. 26, 2014
Nebraska has surpassed Texas in the number of cattle in the state being fattened for slaughter.