Thursday, July 18, 2013

Texas Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Block Abortion Restrictions Until The Death Penalty Is Abolished

  • ABC News - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    Texas judges found shot to death in his chambers in Corpus Christi. State District Judge Tom Green well -- of a gunshot wound to have last night at the court house. It's not clear if it was a ...

  • Jury chosen in murder trial for Texas military base massacre

    Reuters - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan (L) appears before the Fort Hood Chief Circuit Judge Colonel Gregory Gross with a military lawyer (R) during an arraignment as seen in this courtroom sketch, July 20, ...

  • Sex offender gets 120 years for child porn assaulting Poplar Bluff girl

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    . oA convicted sex offender accused of sexually assaulting two southeast Missouri children has been ordered to spend more than 100 years in federal prison.Jeffrey Shelton, 46, was sentenced in federal court in Cape Girardeau to 120 years on felony counts of attempted production of child pornography, production of child pornography and possession of child pornography.Prosecutors say Shelton ...

  • Grand Prairie police asking for help in solving slaying of woman

    Star-Telegram - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    The little girl, who was not hurt, showed officers where she lived, police said. Johnson and her daughter were the only ones living in the apartment at the time, authorities ...

  • Man shot wounded near UTA campus

    Star-Telegram - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    ARLINGTON ? A man was shot and wounded Tuesday morning while he was in a vehicle near the University of Texas at Arlington campus, according to preliminary police ...

  • Army probes radiation in bunker at Texas base

    San Diego Union-Tribune - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    FORT BLISS, Texas -; Army investigators have detected radiation in a former nuclear weapons bunker at Fort Bliss and are trying to determine if anyone on the West Texas post may have been contaminated, officials said ...

  • Austin Musicians Find Unique Solution for Affordable Health Care

    PBS - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    Country, rock, punk, soul. Regardless of genre, two things once united most musicians in Austin, Texas: a lack of health insurance and income averaging less than $16,000 per year. Ray Suarez reports on a how an unusual health alliance keeps artists' health care costs low so they can keep ...

  • Fundraising Texas cyclists give cancer a rough ride

    Edmonton Journal - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    EDMONTON - After cycling from Saskatoon in the pouring rain Sunday, fundraising rider Nick Muston said Tuesday he couldn't believe his eyes when he arrived in Edmonton."Driving for hours in prairie and farmland, then suddenly we see this big city pop up," said Muston, business relations co-ordinator for Texas 4000, the longest annual charity ride in the world.On June 1, nearly 70 ...

  • GOP to confirm 7 Obama to change 2 in deal averting nuclear option

    Washington Examiner - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    The Senate appears to have achieved a fragile peace, agreeing to move all but two of President Obama's most controversial nominees toward confirmation but failing to resolve the differences that pushed Republicans and Democrats to the brink. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., was prepared to invoke the so-called nuclear option to move a slate of seven Obama nominees. The move would ...

  • Harry Reid announces deal to avert nuclear option

    Washington Examiner - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced Tuesday morning that a deal has been reached to avert the so-called nuclear option that would have diminished Reublicans' ability to filibuster and delay President Obama's non-judicial executive branch nominees. Reid credited Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., with helping to craft the deal and said other lawmakers would be briefed on the ...

  • Texas father seeks custody of his daughters in Russia

    Find Law - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    A Texas father has been embroiled in an international child custody dispute for five years. Back in 2008 the father took his two daughters for a weekend visit to see their mother and he has not seen the girls since that time. That weekend, the mother took the girls out of the country to reside in Russia. Though the father had earlier been awarded legal custody of the children by the Texas ...

  • Crash in northwest Austin kills one

    KXAN 36 - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - A car crash in northwest Austin kills one person on Tuesday afternoon. Austin police said the two-vehicle accident happened just after 12 p.m. at the intersection of Duval Road and the southbound frontage road of Research Boulevard. Austin Travis County EMS rescue workers were able to extricate one patient but the victim died at University Medical Center ...

  • Scientists Supplemental red snapper season likely in Gulf of Mexico

    WDSU - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    One of the most popular fish in the Gulf of Mexico are the biggest and most plentiful in years, but the federal recreational season for red snapper keeps getting shorter. Governors of four Gulf Coast states want management turned over to ...

  • Podcast Rider Rumblings - Durant?s injury preparing for the Tiger-Cats and Kent Austin?s return to Riderville

    Leader-Post - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    This week sports editor Rob Vanstone and reporter Ian Hamilton discuss how Darian Durant's injury will affect the team, how much of a challenge the Tiger-Cats pose and whether Kent Austin deserves a hero's welcome in Rider Nation. Follow Rob Vanstone on ...

  • Texas libraries work against childhood obesity

    Associated Press - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Hundreds of public libraries and schools across Texas are eligible to receive nutrition and fitness-related books and DVDs to help fight childhood ...

  • Agency Drillers must make changes near trail

    Associated Press - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    ELKO, Nev. (AP) -- A Houston-based energy company must alter its plans to explore for oil in Elko County to minimize the visual impacts on the California Trail, federal land managers ...

  • Nueces County Sheriffs continue investigation into Judge Tom Greenwells death

    Corpus Christi Caller-Times - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    319th District Court Judge Tom Greenwell hears cases in his court at the Nueces County Courthouse. Gov. Rick Perry, who makes judicial appointments, is aware of State District Judge Tom Greenwell's death, a spokesman confirmed Tuesday. It's not yet known when a new appointment will be given, Matt Thompson ...

  • Study Gulf sheens likely came from Deepwater Horizon wreckage

    WDSU - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    A team of researchers has concluded that pockets of oil trapped in the wreckage of the sunken Deepwater Horizon are the likely source of oil sheens that have been spotted in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of the deadly 2010 explosion on the BP-leased drilling ...

  • Report Texas lacked oversight of testing contract

    The Miami Herald - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    AUSTIN, Texas -- The State Auditor's Office has issued a report criticizing as too vague a $462 million contract that allows a Britain-based multinational firm to produce standardized tests for Texas public schools.Released Tuesday, it says education officials lacked proper oversight to make changes and ensure they get what they pay for in their agreement with NCS Pearson, Inc.Auditors ...

  • Army investigates radiation exposure at Fort Bliss

    The Miami Herald - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    FORT BLISS, Texas -- Army leaders at Fort Bliss say radiation has been detected at a former nuclear weapons bunker and that they're investigating exposure to people on the West Texas post.Military officials said Tuesday that contaminated residue was buried in the 1950s and 1960s, when the post was operated by the Air Force. A man who worked there at the time contacted officials earlier ...

  • Oil drillers must make changes for CA Trail in NV

    The Miami Herald - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    ELKO, Nev. -- Federal land managers in northern Nevada say a Houston-based energy company will have to alter its plans to do oil exploration in Elko County to minimize the visual impacts on the nearby California Trail.Noble Energy Inc. has proposed nearly three dozen drilling sites that border the historic pioneer trail near Mary's River, Starr Valley and Jiggs.The Elko Daily Free Press ...

  • Radiation at Fort Bliss investigated

    KXAN 36 - Tuesday 16th July, 2013

    FORT BLISS, Texas (AP) -- Army leaders at Fort Bliss say radiation has been detected at a former nuclear weapons bunker and that they're investigating exposure to people on the West Texas post. Leaders said Tuesday that contaminated residue was buried in the 1950s and 1960s when the base was operated by the Air Force. A man who worked there at the time contacted officials earlier this year ...

  • Source: http://www.austinnews.net/index.php/sid/215874432/scat/42acbe017a594c30

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