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Texas gas prices falling fast
Friday, Oct. 10, 2008
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Retail gasoline prices keep plummeting across Texas as crude oil prices fall on world markets. Full story »
Cornyn requests probe into Army recruiter suicides
Friday, Oct. 10, 2008
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Sen. John Cornyn is asking the Army for an independent investigation into a string of suicides among recruiters from the same Houston-based battalion. Full story »
TAKS pizza parties break the law, Texas education boss warns
Friday, Oct. 10, 2008
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The state's education boss is warning school superintendents that pizza parties, field trips and other rewards for students who pass the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills may violate education privacy laws by inadvertently outing students who fail. Full story »
Dallas school jobs axed
Friday, Oct. 10, 2008
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The planned layoff of nearly 1,100 employees in the Dallas school district began Thursday, with the cutting of 150 non-contract employees and the elimination of 100 vacant positions. Full story »
Pepper spray used in court
Friday, Oct. 10, 2008
Travis County sheriff's deputies used pepper spray to break up a melee that broke out in a courtroom Thursday as a judge was sentencing a man to 25 years in prison for murder. Full story »
UT elects to halt punishment over political signs
Friday, Oct. 10, 2008
Facing a free speech uproar, the University of Texas backed down Thursday from punishing two students who refused to remove political signs from their dormitory window. Full story »
Layoffs likely at UT Medical Branch
Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008
A day after elected officials claimed they had helped avert a planned layoff of thousands of employees at the University of Texas Medical Branch, the interim chancellor of the UT System said a "significant" portion of workers will lose their jobs. Full story »
Man guilty of dismembering girlfriend
Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008
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A 28-year-old man was convicted Thursday of killing his ex-girlfriend, whose dismembered remains were later burned on two outdoor grills. Full story »
Texas court rejects appeal in dismemberment case
Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008
The state's highest criminal appeals court has rejected a petition from a former University of Texas student convicted of killing a 21-year-old woman whose body was found in a bathtub with her head and hands cut off. Full story »
Cop who killed Texas motorist not indicted
Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008
MORRISTOWN, N.J. -- A state grand jury in Morris County has decided not to indict a Denville police officer who shot a Texas man to death during a traffic stop. Full story »
Man is accused of killing car salesman during test drive
Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008
A 41-year-old man facing charges of capital murder and robbery for allegedly killing a car salesman by forcing him out of a moving pickup truck during a test drive attacked his guards during a jailhouse interview with a Dallas television station. Full story »
Fort Worth man convicted of murder in case with no body
Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008
A Tarrant County jury found a 41-year-old Fort Worth man guilty today of murder in the disappearance of a 51-year-old General Motors assembly plant worker. Full story »
Officials seek FEMA trailers for hurricane victims in Beaumont
Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008
With thousands still homeless after Hurricane Ike and very little housing available here, Texas officials are pleading with FEMA to make good on its promise for more trailers. Full story »
NTSB member questions Mexican bus safety checks
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008
Foreign-made buses that don't meet U.S. safety standards can drive across the nation's southern border to operate in this country because of gaps in safety laws intended to ensure those imported buses are safe, a federal safety official said Wednesday. Full story »
Galveston: $100M needed for beaches
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008
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The coast here doesn't have the whitest sand or the clearest water, but to millions of Houstonians and other Texans, this is the beach. And thanks to Hurricane Ike, it's now a mess. Full story »
