HOUSTON (AP) _ A private school in Houston says a teacher has been fired for encouraging students to hit a 5-year-old boy who had punched a girl. Robindell Private School Director Chuck Wall says the [Read More…]
SAN ANTONIO (AP) _ A dentist will become the first adherent of the Sikh faith to graduate from U.S. Army basic training in more than two decades. Capt. Tejdeep Singh Rattan was to go through [Read More…]
HOUSTON (AP) _ The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo set an attendance record with more than 2.1 million visitors. The 78th annual expo, which opened March 2 and wrapped up Sunday, was a showcase for [Read More…]
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TYLER, Texas (AP) _ A Texas man apparently chose the wrong time to allegedly impersonate an officer: while a real one was watching. Tyler police said Sunday that a 22-year-old man faces a felony charge [Read More…]
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) _ The family of a Texas man who died while imprisoned for a rape he didn’t commit has been given a framed copy of the state’s first posthumous pardon — a [Read More…]
SAN ANTONIO (AP) _ Police say an elderly San Antonio man shot killed his wife and adult son at the breakfast table, then called 911 before killing himself. San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said [Read More…]
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) _ Emergency officials say they are continuing to search for the body of a judicial candidate believed to have drowned while fishing. Tom Zachry has been missing since Friday, when his [Read More…]
AUSTIN (AP) _ Liz Carpenter, an author and former press secretary to first lady Lady Bird Johnson, has died. She was 89. Carpenter died Saturday at University Medical Center Brackenridge in Austin, her daughter Christy [Read More…]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Summoned to success by President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses, [Read More…]
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