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Challenger petitions for a recount of votes in water district election

FORT WORTH — John Basham, who ran unsuccessfully in a contentious Tarrant Regional Water District Board race this month, has requested that the ballots in the election be ...
House OKs disclosure lobbying rules for lawmakers

Sponsored by Austin Democratic Rep. Donna Howard, the measure would stop the so-called "revolving door." That practice often sees lawmakers who retire or lose an election immediately accept sizeable pay increases to begin lobbying their former ...
Congress likely to reduce food stamp funding in new farm bill

The Senate on Monday opened debate on a $955 billion farm bill that would reduce federal spending by as much as $23 billion over the next 10 years by cutting funding for food stamps and eliminating some farm-support ...
A Fort Worth man keeps fighting for a law to prevent wrongful convictions

A bill to create an exoneration commission that would study false convictions — named for his brother, Tim Cole, a Fort Worth man found innocent of a rape conviction years after he died in prison — appears to be at a standstill in the Texas ...
Twister season starts late but starts nonetheless

Twister season starts late, but starts nonetheless Deadly tornadoes that have raked communities in Middle America over the past week, including Monday's massive twister that carved a path of destruction through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, belie what had been a relatively quiet start of the 2013 tornado ...

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Witness is a story full of stark contrasts -- rural vs. city, pacifism vs. violence, simplicity vs. sophistication -- yet it would be wrong to say that at any point the film comes down strongly on one side or another. There is a tendency to see it as romanticizing the Amish community it d ... ...

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Court upholds age limit for CHL holders

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the Texas law limiting handgun licenses is constitutional. Lawmakers had decided that those under 21 were not mature enough to carry concealed handguns in public. The law makes an exception for members of the ...
Resign to run OKed for railroad commissioners

Bonnen noted that instead of focusing on their duties overseeing Texas' oil and gas industry, railroad commissioners have often spent lengthy periods raising money to seek other elected ...
3 dead IDd after wrong-way I-15 crash near Vegas

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A wrong-way driver may have been under the influence of prescription medication when the car he was driving slammed head-on into an SUV on Interstate 15, killing two family members from India and injuring four others, authorities said ...
More reverse mortgage lending options on tap for Texas retirees

Senate Joint Resolution 18 would amend the Texas Constitution to authorize the Reverse Mortgage for Purchase program and would enhance consumer disclosure requirements for all reverse mortgage loans in Texas. The Texas House has approved legislation that would expand the scope of reverse mortgage lending in the state to the benefit of retirees, its supporters claim. Senate Joint Resolution 18 ...
Texas lawmakers restore $4B in education cuts

Texas Gov. Rick Perry said he'll call a special session of the Legislature if they don't pass several key bills. Texas House and Senate budget leaders have reached an agreement to restore about $4 billion of the $5.4 billion in cuts made to public education last session. Though the amount falls short of a complete restoration, Democrats proclaimed the compromise a hard-fought victory ...

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Texas takes on large oil firms

BP and Halliburton are being sued by the state of Texas over one of the worst oil spills in US history.

Texas has become the latest complainant in allegations that both companies engaged in "misconduct" for their role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Four other states that have sued BP and other companies in connection to the spill.

Alabama and Louisiana filed complaints in 2010 while Florida and Mississippi filed their respective law suits only last month.

Other firms, Transocean, Anadarko and BP America, have also been named in the Texas law suit which concentrates on the violation of Texas environmental regulations.

Lawyers for the state will be seeking money that would have been generated from tourism, which foundered after the oil spill became evident.

The lost tourism revenues due to the spill will be listed as being money that would have been generated from fees and purchases by visitors to coastal communities.

Texas will be seeking civil penalties for each day that oil spilled into the Gulf as compensation.

While an estimated 4.9 million barrels were spilled, BP has argued that 800,000 barrels were recovered from seawaters and should be excluded from any legal settlement. ...