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Texas AG urges NY gun-lovers to move to Texas

Written by ASSOCIATED PRESS Wednesday, 16 January 2013 21:53

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas attorney general has launched an Internet ad campaign inviting New Yorkers who feel their state's new gun laws are too restrictive to move to Texas. Anyone accessing a variety of media sites from Manhattan or Albany starting Wednesday may be confronted with two pop-up ads. One reads, "Is Gov. Cuomo looking to take your guns?" Another says, "Wanted: Law abiding New York gun owners looking for lower taxes and greater opportunity." Paid for with Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's campaign funds, the ads reference the nation's toughest gun control law. It was signed Tuesday…

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Dozen on school bus hurt in South Texas accident

Written by ASSOCIATED PRESS Tuesday, 04 September 2012 18:08

CIBOLO, Texas (AP) — Authorities say 11 students and the driver of a South Texas school bus have been slightly hurt when the vehicle was hit by a pickup truck. Police in Cibolo (SEE'-boh-loh) say the bus was struck from behind Tuesday morning. The injured were transported to a hospital to be checked out. No one was immediately charged in the accident involving a bus from the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District. Officials say the bus carried more than 30 students from Dobie Junior High School in Cibolo, about 20 miles northeast of San Antonio. Details on the pickup driver…

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Texas holds hearing on new Women's Health Program

Written by WILL WEISSERT - Associated Press Tuesday, 04 September 2012 18:07

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Supporters of Planned Parenthood are urging Texas to "put women's health ahead of politics." The state is holding a public hearing Tuesday on what its Women's Health Program may look like after the federal government pulls funding amid a battle over Planned Parenthood. A 2011 state law barred funding to clinics affiliated with abortion providers. The Women's Health Program provides services to about 130,000 low-income women. It had been 90 percent sponsored by the federal government, but Washington says Texas' law violates federal rules, and plans to stop funding the program in November. Texas vows to…

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Boundary agency to explain border fence decision

Written by ASSOCIATED PRESS Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:35

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas (AP) — Officials from a U.S. agency that monitors the U.S.-Mexico border are to explain why they're allowing construction of border fence segments in the Rio Grande flood plain. The explanation will come at a South Texas citizen forum Wednesday evening in Rio Grande City. Earlier this year, the U.S. side of the International Boundary and Water Commission withdrew its objection to border fence construction in the flood plain, finding it wouldn't obstruct the flow of the Rio Grande significantly. The decision potentially affects about seven miles of fencing planned in the flood plain. U.S. Customs…

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What the Texas redistricting ruling means

Written by ASSOCIATED PRESS Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:30

A federal court in Washington on Tuesday found evidence of discrimination in new Texas voting maps drawn by the state's Republican-controlled Legislature. Here's a quick look at the decision: THE ISSUE: The U.S. Department of Justice requires Texas and eight other states with a history of racial discrimination to submit changes to voting maps for review. Rather than seek clearance through the DOJ, Texas asked a federal court in Washington for approval. On Tuesday, the court rejected the maps. THE DECISION: In a 154-page opinion, the court said the state failed to prove that the maps weren't redrawn with the…

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Baytown man charged with raping pizza woman

Written by ASSOCIATED PRESS Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:27

BAYTOWN, Texas (AP) — Police say a Houston-area man suspected of raping a delivery woman was caught after returning to a pizza place where he earlier allegedly stole food. Baytown police say alert employees recognized the man. Harris County Jail records show 20-year-old James Jackson of Baytown was being held Wednesday on charges of aggravated sexual assault and aggravated robbery. Online records did not list an attorney for Jackson, who's held on $60,000 bond. Investigators say a Domino's Pizza delivery woman was robbed and raped May 28 by a man who jumped into her vehicle. She recognized him as a…

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Federal court: Discrimination in Texas voting maps

Written by PAUL J. WEBER - Associated Press Tuesday, 28 August 2012 20:07

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Texas' voting districts are again in upheaval after a federal court on Tuesday found evidence of discrimination in new district maps drawn and approved by the state's Republican-controlled Legislature last year. The U.S. District Court in Washington wrote in a 154-page opinion that the maps don't comply with the federal Voting Rights Act because state prosecutors failed to show Texas lawmakers did not draw congressional and state Senate districts "without discriminatory purposes." The ruling applies to the maps originally drawn by the Legislature in 2011, and not interim maps drawn by a San Antonio federal court…

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Mexican president-elect steps into US murder case

Written by CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press Tuesday, 28 August 2012 16:17

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Mexico's president-elect asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to evaluate the murder case of a Mexican woman who was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the death of a Texas boy. Enrique Pena Nieto filed a brief in his personal capacity supporting the appeal of Rosa Estela Olvera Jimenez. He argued that Jimenez was denied due process because she wasn't given funds to hire expert witnesses and had ineffective counsel. Pena Nieto was governor of the state of Mexico when Jimenez, a native of that state, was sentenced in 2005 for the death of…

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Gas line explosion in Texas injures 4 workers

Written by ASSOCIATED PRESS Tuesday, 28 August 2012 16:05

MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) — Officials say four utility workers have been hurt in a natural gas pipeline explosion and fire at a North Texas construction site. Stacie Durham with the McKinney Fire Department says an Atmos Energy crew apparently hit the gas line Tuesday morning. Durham says all six utility workers were accounted for after the accident. Four were later transported to Medical Center of McKinney. Spokeswoman Sally Huggins says the victims were being evaluated in the emergency room. She had no further details on conditions. Jennifer Ryan with Dallas-based Atmos had no immediate details on why the crew was…

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Texas 'Twilight Rapist' guilty in another case

Written by ASSOCIATED PRESS Tuesday, 28 August 2012 16:04

CUERO, Texas (AP) — A convicted rapist serving life in prison for attacking one Texas woman has pleaded guilty to another sexual assault. DeWitt County District Attorney Mike Sheppard said Tuesday that Billy Joe Harris pleaded guilty to sexual assault in two attacks during 2009 on an elderly Yoakum woman. Harris, known as the "Twilight Rapist" in attacks usually before dawn, was sentenced last Thursday to two 35-year prison terms. Those sentences will run concurrent with the life term Harris received last September for the 2009 sexual assault of a disabled woman in Edna. Harris in April was convicted of…

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