| March 8, 2008 | - After John McCain swept Republican contests in Ohio, Rhode Island,
Texas, and Vermont and secured by some counts the delegates required for his party's nomination, his rivals Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul withdrew from the presidential race. McCain visited the White House to eat a lunch of hot dogs with George W. Bush and accept the President's endorsement. “If my showing up and endorsing him helps him, or if I'm against him and it helps him, either way, I want him to win,” said Bush.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
Washington Post
|
| February 28, 2008 | - Allison, a sea turtle missing three limbs who lives at a Texas turtle sanctuary, was to be fitted with a prosthetic flipper. “The problem,” explained a curator for the sanctuary, “is she doesn't swim very well.”
| Source:
PhysOrg.com
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| February 23, 2008 | -
Texas surpassed California to become the top producer of wind power, and oil men were cashing in on the boom. “We're number one in wind in the United States,” said Texas land commissioner Jerry Patterson, “and that will never change.”
| Source:
NY Times
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| February 7, 2008 | - A Texas prison denied an inmate a copy of Roberto Bolano's “The Savage Detectives” after determining that a passage from the book could “encourage homosexual or deviant criminal sexual behavior.”
| Source:
Slate
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| January 19, 2008 | - The Supreme Court decided that Texas could exclude Dennis Kucinich's name from the ballots in the Democratic primary because Kucinich refused to take a party loyalty oath.
| Source:
AP via Google News
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| October 26, 2007 | - At a high-security auction in Texas, a bookstore owner paid $100,000 for a lock of Che Guevara's hair.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 19, 2007 | - Taku the killer whale died unexpectedly at the San Antonio SeaWorld.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 19, 2007 | - Taku the killer whale died unexpectedly at the San Antonio SeaWorld.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 17, 2007 | - State inspectors visited a Texas youth jail to find spoiled food, overflowing toilets, walls smeared with feces, and a curriculum reliant on crossword puzzles.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 17, 2007 | - State inspectors visited a Texas youth jail to find spoiled food, overflowing toilets, walls smeared with feces, and a curriculum reliant on crossword puzzles.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 31, 2007 | - The Alton, Texas, chief of police was arrested for making “unwelcomed” sexual advances toward two male employees.
| Source:
KGBTV.com via Nerve.com
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| August 31, 2007 | - City officials in Houston, Texas, were investigating a “Ghetto Handbook” distributed by the local police to its officers. The booklet, subtitled “Wucha dun did now?” contained, among other items, a glossary that would enable the police to communicate “as if you just came out of the hood.” Terms defined in the glossary included “foty” for a 40-ounce bottle of beer; “aks” for “to ask a question”; and “hoodrat” for “a scummy girl.”
| Source:
Houston Chronicle
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| August 16, 2007 | - It was reported that a South Carolina small-parts supplier run by twin sisters had cheated the Pentagon out of $20.5 million in shipping costs; two 19-cent washers sent to an Army base in Texas, for instance, incurred a $998,798 charge.
| Source:
Bloomberg
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| July 31, 2007 | -
Researchers at the University of Texas identified 237 reasons that people have sex, including “he smelled nice.”
| Source:
ABC News
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| July 9, 2007 | - Tourism was down in Crawford, Texas, where George W. Bush owns a very small ranch. To make up for declining sales of Bush merchandise, Bill Johnson, the owner of Crawford's largest gift shop, was stocking more Americana. “We're changing our mix,” he explained. “As a business, we have to do what we have to do to be successful.”
| Source:
Houston Chronicle
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| May 28, 2007 | - In Crawford, Texas, Cindy Sheehan resigned as the “'face' of the American anti-war movement.” “Good-bye America,” wrote Sheehan. “You are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unless you want it.”
| Source:
Daily Kos
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| May 16, 2007 | - A Galveston, Texas, man microwaved his daughter.
| Source:
Click2Houston.com
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| May 3, 2007 | - The Republican candidates for the presidency debated at the Ronald Reagan Library in California. Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas said that the day Roe v. Wade was repealed would be “a glorious day of human liberty and freedom” and that the current tax system “ought to be taken behind a barn and killed with a dull ax”; Senator John McCain of Arizona claimed that he would “follow [Osama bin Laden] to the gates of hell”; Texas
Congressman Ron Paul said that not going to war in Iraq would have been “conservative,“ because ”it’s a Republican, it’s a pro-American, it follows the Founding Fathers. And besides, it follows the Constitution.” California
Congressman Duncan Hunter took responsibility for the border fence in San Diego. “It’s a double fence,” he said. “It’s not that little straggly fence you see on CNN with everybody getting over it.” “No one on this stage,” said former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, ”probably knows Hillary Clinton better than I do,” to which former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani replied: ”Oh my!” Collectively, the candidates invoked Reagan's name nearly 20 times.
| Source:
NY Times
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| April 3, 2007 | - Singer/songwriter Billy Joe Shaver, author of such hits as “Georgia on a Fast Train” and “I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)” was sought by police in Texas after he shot a “drunk, aggressive stranger.”
| Source:
CNN.com
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| March 24, 2007 | - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a timetable for ending the Iraq war by a six-vote margin. The bill mandates American withdrawal in September 2008 if the Bush Administration meets certain benchmarks, earlier if it does not. Several Democrats voted against the timetable because it was not sufficiently antiwar, and Republicans derided the inclusion of domestic provisions benefiting spinach growers, citrus farmers, salmon fishermen, and peanut storers. “What does throwing money at Bubba Gump, Popeye the sailor man, and Mr. Peanut have to do with winning a war?” asked Representative Sam Johnson of Texas. “I will veto it,” said President George W. Bush, "if it comes to my desk.”
| Source 1:
New Tork Times
Source 2:
New York Times
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| March 21, 2007 | -
Al Gore returned to Capitol Hill to testify that global warming is a planetary emergency. Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts called Gore a prophet, and Rep. John Dingell of Michigan addressed him as “Mr. President.” Joe Barton of Texas, the leading Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, told Gore he was “totally wrong” and that, if need be, Republican lawmakers would stay late for an “all-out cat fight” with Democrats. Ralph Hall, also of Texas, speculated that Gore's attack on the energy industry could result in war “when and if OPEC nations abandon the U.S.A.,” and Roscoe Bartlett (R., Md.) said that he thought it was “probably possible to be a conservative without appearing to be an idiot.”
| Source 1:
AP vie Breitbart
Source 2:
Huffington Post
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| February 1, 2007 | - In Texas, elementary school children were increasingly becoming addicted to “cheese,” a potentially lethal combination of heroin and Tylenol PM. “Any child anywhere can afford a hit of cheese,” said a detective. “It's just horrific.”
| Source:
ABC News
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| January 16, 2007 | -
Connecticut was fighting with Texas over which state invented the hamburger. “We are even the birthplace of George Bush, who wants people to think he's from Texas,” said New Haven mayor John DeStefano. “The hamburger is as much a New Haven original as President Bush.”
| Source:
AP via CNN
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| January 4, 2007 | -
Iraqi security guards were arrested for taking illegal cell phone footage of Shiite officials taunting Saddam Hussein before he was hanged. President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt called images of the execution “revolting and barbaric,” and Libya announced its intention to erect a statue of Hussein on the gallows. Master Sgt. Robert Ellis, a senior medical adviser responsible for Hussein's care in Baghdad, praised the stoicism displayed by Hussein. “Saddam,” he said, “was gangsta.” A Texas 10-year-old who had seen video footage of the execution died after hanging himself from his bunk bed.
| Source 1:
ABC News
Source 2:
Der Spiegel
Source 3:
STL Today
Source 4:
Reuters via MSNBC
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| January 4, 2007 | - In Houston, Texas, the lawyer for a teenager whose forehead contains a subpoenaed 9mm bullet said that his client would allow the bullet to be removed as long as he is not charged with capital murder.
| Source:
AP via Star Telegram
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| December 14, 2006 | - A Texas lawmaker introduced legislation that would allow the blind to participate in “the fun of hunting.”
| Source:
Reuters via YahooNews
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| December 5, 2006 | - A plane bound for Texas made an emergency landing after a female passenger lit matches to mask the odor of her fart.
| Source:
WKMG Local News
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| November 20, 2006 | - A Houston teenager was sentenced to jail for sodomizing a Hispanic teenager with a patio umbrella while shouting “White Power!”
| Source:
AP Via CourtTV News
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| November 20, 2006 | - Two Texas penguins that survived a truck crash hatched a chick.
| Source:
Houston Chronicle
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| October 28, 2006 | -
Hunters in west Texas were stalking feral pigs.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 19, 2006 | - A convicted killer on Texas
death row committed suicide 15 hours before he was supposed to die by lethal injection by slitting his jugular vein with a makeshift blade; prison authorities found the message “I didn't do it” smeared in blood on the walls of his cell.
| Source:
AP via MSNBC
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| October 6, 2006 | - Dog-feces-cleanup franchises were opening across the United States. It's the “best job in the world,” said Matt Boswell, the Chief Excrement Officer of Texas-based Pet Butler, which operates in 14 states.
| Source 1:
The Seattle Times
Source 2:
MSNBC
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| October 3, 2006 | - The Supreme Court refused to consider the constitutionality of Ignacio Sergio Acosta v. state of Texas, a case that challenged the Texas law that makes it illegal to promote genitalia-shaped sex toys.
| Source:
ABC News
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| September 18, 2006 | - Anousheh Ansari, a communications entrepreneur from Texas, became the world's first female Muslim
space tourist.
| Source:
BBC News
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| September 14, 2006 | - Former Texas governor Ann Richards died.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| September 5, 2006 | - Visitors to the Texas State Fair were enjoying deep-fried Coca-Cola.
| Source:
Local6.com
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| August 26, 2006 | - A college student from Connecticut was found with a stick of dynamite in his luggage at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.
| Source:
KNX1070 Radio via Google News
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| August 15, 2006 | - A tree in Texas was mysteriously spouting water from its bark.
| Source:
San Antonio Express-News
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| August 14, 2006 | -
Houston's rising crime rate was blamed on refugees from New Orleans, which has been gripped by a baby boom.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
Breitbart.com
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| August 10, 2006 | - Under pressure from U.S. officials, authorities in the United Kingdom announced the discovery of a terrorist plot to blow up as many as ten passenger planes in the air, possibly by using explosive liquids hidden inside sports-drink bottles. Twenty-one suspects were arrested. Britain raised its threat level to “critical”; the United States raised its threat level “for all commercial flights flying from the United Kingdom to the United States” to “red.” Carry-on luggage was banned on flights in and out of Heathrow airport, and classical and traditional musicians, who normally keep their fragile instruments with them while traveling, were forced to check them as baggage and risk damage. “These restrictions,” said a cellist, “are a disaster for me.” Bagpipers planning to attend the World Pipe Band Championships were particularly worried about the effects of the ban. Prime Minister Tony Blair, on vacation in the Caribbean, thanked U.K. security services for their “hard work,” and President George W. Bush, who had been monitoring the progress of the investigation while on vacation in Crawford, Texas (where he was reading The Stranger, by Albert Camus), flew to Wisconsin and called the arrests “a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists.”
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
BBC News
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| August 10, 2006 | - In Texas a truck carrying zoo animals overturned, immediately killing one penguin; three more penguins were killed by oncoming traffic. The octopus was not harmed.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| August 4, 2006 | - A fireball streaked through the night sky over Lakeway, Texas.
| Source:
Local6.com
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| July 31, 2006 | - A study conducted at Texas A&M University found that cigarette smoking reduced the impact of alcohol on inebriated rats. “I hope people won't interpret that as a good thing,” said lead researcher Wei-Jung Chen.
| Source:
Seed Magazine
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| July 30, 2006 | - Lubbock, Texas, prayed for rain.
| Source:
KCBD.com
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| July 25, 2006 | -
Texas was overrun by butterflies.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| July 19, 2006 | - U.S. Representative Phil Gingrey of Georgia claimed that God supported a Constitutional amendment banning same-sex
marriages. “I think,” he said, “God has spoken very clearly on this issue.” “It's part of God's plan,” said Texas
Congressman John Carter, “for the future of mankind.” “We best not,” said Colorado Representative Bob Beauprez, “be messing with His plan.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| June 30, 2006 | - The library of the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, cancelled its subscription to the
New York Times
.
| Source:
MySA.com
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| June 20, 2006 | - Researchers in Texas successfully convinced fringe-lipped bats that poisonous sympatric cane toads were edible.
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| June 7, 2006 | -
Texas
executed an axe murderer.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| May 17, 2006 | - At least 18 people fell ill in Dallas after eating tainted muffins.
| Source:
UPI
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| May 12, 2006 | - In south Texas 100 people had been diagnosed with Morgellons disease. "These people," said a nurse practitioner, "will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black and tarry." "It looked," said the mother of a Morgellons patient, "like a piece of spaghetti was sticking out about a quarter to an eighth of an inch long, and it was sticking out of his chest."
| Source:
MYSA.com
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| April 20, 2006 | -
Pawn-shop owners in Texas noted that more people were pawning their belongings in order to buy gas.
| Source:
CBS11TV.com
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| April 16, 2006 | - Under the presumed influence of White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, who collects photographs of President George W. Bush's hands, Karl Rove was relieved of his position as presidential policy adviser in order that he might focus his energies on the November midterm elections, and White House press secretary Scott McClellan resigned. “One of these days,” the President said of McClellan, “he and I are going to be rocking in chairs in Texas and talking about the good old days.”
| Source 1:
USA Today
Source 2:
Forbes.com
Source 3:
BBC News
|
| April 3, 2006 | - Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R., Tex.) announced that he would not run for reelection to Congress. "I've never done anything in my political career," said DeLay, "for my own personal gain."
| Source:
Time
|
| March 15, 2006 | - Miss Deaf Texas was struck and killed by a train. "They sounded the horn," said a police detective, "and got no response."
| Source:
Seattle PI
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| March 13, 2006 | - In Texas wildfires have burned 3.5 million acres of land since December.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
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| March 9, 2006 | - Former Texas Governor Ann Richards announced that she had been diagnosed with cancer.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
|
| March 8, 2006 | -
Tom DeLay (R., Tex.) won the Republican
primary for his congressional seat.
| Source:
Capitol Hill Blue
|
| February 18, 2006 | -
Texas
attorney Harry Whittington apologized for the trouble he caused when he was shot by Vice President Dick Cheney.
| Source:
Chron.com
|
| February 16, 2006 | - A man in Texas was sentenced to 30 years in prison for raping his former girlfriend, then branding her.
| Source:
Chron.com
|
| February 12, 2006 | - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney shot and severely injured a fellow hunter while hunting quail at a friend's 50,000-acre Texas ranch.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| January 16, 2006 | - In El Paso, Texas, a mechanic was sucked into a jet engine. "It doesn't happen very often," said a Boeing spokeswoman.
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| January 2, 2006 | - It was flooding in California, and parts of Oklahoma and Texas were on fire.
| Source 1:
CBS News
Source 2:
Forbes.com
|
| December 13, 2005 | - In Houston, Texas, a receptionist named Kristina Roberts was suing her boss, Jorge Garcia, for ejaculating on her as she worked. Garcia insists the ejaculation was consensual.
| Source:
CourtTV.com
|
| December 10, 2005 | - Ninety-two members of the U.S. House of Representatives were planning to challenge the provision of the 14th amendment that provides those born in the United States with citizenship. “Addressing this problem,” said Representative Lamar Smith (R., Tex.), “is needed if we're going to try to combat illegal immigration on all fronts.”
| Source:
|
| December 2, 2005 | - An atheist student group at the University of Texas was handing out pornography to anyone who gave them a Bible as part of a “Smut for Smut” program. “We consider the Bible to be a very negative force in the history of the world,” said a student.
| Source:
XBiz [NSFW]
|
| November 25, 2005 | - It was revealed that the investigation into illegal payoffs made by lobbyist Jack Abramoff involves not only Representative
Tom DeLay (R., Texas), but Representative Bob Ney (R., Ohio), Representative John Doolittle (R., Calif.), Senator Conrad Burns (R., Mont.), 17 current and former Congressional aides, and two former Bush Administration officials.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| October 31, 2005 | - In Waco, Texas, a pastor stepped into a baptismal pool with a microphone in his hand and was electrocuted in front of 800 parishioners.
| Source:
CNN
|
| October 27, 2005 | - A woman in Texas came down with dengue fever.
| Source:
Austin-American Statesman
|
| September 24, 2005 | -
Hurricane Rita, the third-most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, struck Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, killing 36 people and causing flooding, tornadoes, and storm surges, and re-flooding parts of New Orleans. Hurricane evacuations caused miles of traffic jams in Texas, and a bus filled with elderly people exploded when an oxygen tank caught fire, incinerating at least 24 passengers.
| Source 1:
Wikipedia
Source 2:
Houston Chronicle
|
| September 22, 2005 | - In Wichita Falls, Texas, a man named Roderick Johnson was suing prison officials for allowing him to be made into a sexual slave. Johnson testified that he had once been the "property" of a prison gang called the Gangster Disciples, who rented him out at rates ranging from $3 to $7 per rape. A defendant in the case said that Johnson’s testimony was not credible because he never showed the "bruises," "possible broken bones," or "a little worse" that would prove that the sex was nonconsensual.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| September 14, 2005 | -
Texas
executed Frances Newton.
| Source:
CBS News
|
| September 6, 2005 | - Houston, Texas, the headquarters of contractors Halliburton and Baker Hughes, was preparing for a boomin the wake of Hurricane Katrina; one real-estate firm was offering special financing deals "for hurricane survivors only."
| Source:
IHT
|
| September 5, 2005 | - Barbara Bush visited the Astrodome and said that, given that the evacueesfrom Hurricane Katrina that were residing there were "underprivileged anyway," things were "working out very well" for them.
| Source:
Editor & Publisher
|
| July 13, 2005 | - Three Texas teens were in trouble for teabagging a fourth.
| Source:
The Star-Telegram
|
| June 16, 2005 | - And four cheerleaders in Texas were in trouble for smearing human feces on a pizza in an attempt to frame a rival cheerleading squad.
| Source:
WOAI.com
|
| June 10, 2005 | - Two women were upset when they visited a Houston
mausoleum and found that the cremated remains of their mother had been replaced by a can of sour-cream-and-onion potato chips.
| Source:
Local6.com
|
| May 23, 2005 | - In Waxahachie, Texas, the high school student yearbook neglected to include a girl's name in a photo caption, referring to her instead as “Black Girl.”
| Source:
AZCentral.com
|
| May 19, 2005 | - In Houston large black grackles swooped down from magnolia trees to attack passersby, including a lawyer.
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| May 18, 2005 | - In Texas a five-year-old brought a loaded gun to his pre-kindergarten class.
| Source:
AZCentral.com
|
| May 5, 2005 | -
Texas lawmakers were trying to stop sexy cheerleading.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| April 20, 2005 | -
Texas legislators were considering a bill that would ban gay people from taking in foster children.
| Source:
USA Today
|
| April 3, 2005 | - A former scout master in Houston, Texas, resigned from the Lion's Club and turned himself in for sexually abusing a blind nine-year-old boy.
| Source 1:
Houston Chronicle
Source 2:
ABC13.com
|
| March 24, 2005 | - Fifteen people died in an explosion at a BP oil refinery in Texas.
| Source:
AP
|
| March 20, 2005 | - The U.S. Senate subpoenaed Terri Schiavo, a woman who has been in a persistent vegetative state since 1991, to testify before the Health, Education, and Labor Committee. The subpoena was intended to make it impossible for Schiavo to be taken off the feeding tube that allows her to survive; the order, however, was defied by a Florida judge, and the feeding tube was removed. Schiavo then began to die of dehydration. The House and Senate held emergency sessions in order to pass a bill that would transfer the case from state court to federal court. The bill was then signed by President George W. Bush, who had flown in from his ranch in Crawford, Texas, for the occasion.
| Source:
Wikipedia
|
| March 2, 2005 | - A toddler in Deer Park, Texas, drowned in a dirty swimming pool.
| Source:
Click2Houston
|
| March 2, 2005 | - A toddler was swept away in the Rio Grande as his parents tried to cross into Texas from Mexico.
| Source:
Houston Chronicle
|
| February 18, 2005 | -
Texas
executed another prisoner.
| Source:
CNN
|
| February 3, 2005 | - Richard "Kinky" Friedman announced he would run for governor of Texas.
| Source:
Local News Headlines
|
| February 1, 2005 | - Teenagers in Texas were having more sex, a survey found.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| January 21, 2005 | -
Norwegians were shocked to see the president and his family repeatedly give the University of Texas "hook 'em, 'horns" sign, which they interpreted as a salute to Satan, during the festivities, and sign-language users pointed out that the sign means "bullshit."
| Source 1:
New York Daily News
Source 2:
AP
|
| January 7, 2005 | -
Houston was named the fattest city in the U.S. for the fourth time in five years,
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| December 30, 2004 | - President George W. Bush stayed on vacation down at the ranch in Crawford, Texas, and complained about the U.S. being called stingy. He then doubled his initial aid offer to $35 million. Senator Patrick Leahy noted that "we spend $35 million before breakfast in Iraq."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| December 25, 2004 | - It snowed in Texas.
| Source:
Fox News
|
| November 17, 2004 | -
Texas prisoner Anthony Fuentes was executed.
| Source:
Houston Chronicle
|
| November 17, 2004 | - A Texas website was planning to offer hunters the ability to shoot animals online.
| Source:
ZDNet
|
| November 10, 2004 | - A pregnant baboon ran wild at George Bush Airport.
| Source:
Houston Chronicle
|
| November 10, 2004 | - Former high-school football star Demarco McCullum, Texas
prisoner #999180, became the 21st prisoner executed in that state this year.
| Source 1:
The Advocate
Source 2:
CNN
|
| November 3, 2004 | - Voters in Dallas County, Texas, elected an openly gay Hispanic woman as sheriff.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| October 30, 2004 | - Governor Rick Perry of Texas refused to proclaim "UN Day."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 16, 2004 | - A Texas judge found that the state's system of educational funding is unconstitutional.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 14, 2004 | - A Texas dentist died after contracting a flesh-eating bacteria called
vibrio vulnificus
,
| Source:
Health Talk
|
| July 20, 2004 | - County commissioners in Jefferson County, Texas, voted to change the name of Jap Road, which was reportedly named 100 years ago in honor of a Japanese rice farmer.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| July 18, 2004 | - Charges were dismissed against a Texas woman who holds "Tupperware-type" parties for housewives interested in buying dildos.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| May 29, 2004 | - Authorities in Texas killed 24,000 chickens after avian flu was found on a farm near Sulphur Springs.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| May 19, 2004 | -
Texas executed a schizophrenic man.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| May 8, 2004 | - President Bush continued to maintain that the Abu Ghraib torturers were un-American, but human-rights advocates pointed out that similar abuse takes place in U.S. prisons all the time, especially in Texas.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| May 8, 2004 | - Someone desecrated the grave of James Byrd Jr., the black man who was dragged to death behind a pickup in Texas, for the second time.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 21, 2004 | - Governor Rick Perry of Texas proposed shifting the burden of school financing in the state from property taxes to sin taxes on gambling, alcohol, and stripping.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 1, 2004 | - The International Court of Justice ruled that U.S. courts must review the death sentences of 51 Mexican citizens whose rights under the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations were violated; although international treaties are "the supreme law of the land," according to the U.S. Constitution, Governor Rick Perry declared that "the International Court of Justice does not have jurisdiction in Texas."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| March 30, 2004 | - The feral hog population in East Texas was out of control, wildlife scientists warned, and one rancher said he was afraid to let his children leave the yard.
| Source:
Texas A&M University
|
| February 25, 2004 | - A mosque was set on fire in Houston.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| February 16, 2004 | - A grand-jury investigation was under way in Texas into a political action committee controlled by House speaker Tom DeLay.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| February 13, 2004 | - Three pharmacists were fired in Denton, Texas, for refusing to fill a prescription for emergency contraception.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| February 11, 2004 | - A former Texas National Guard officer charged that in 1997 he overheard a superior and a Bush adviser discussing ways to "cleanse" Bush's file to remove embarrassing information. The officer said he later saw papers with Bush's name on them in a garbage can.
| Source:
USA Today, New York Times
|
| January 5, 2004 | -
President Bush spent the first day of the new year killing small birds in Texas; he reportedly resolved to eat fewer desserts.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| January 2, 2004 | - A small plane fell from the sky and crashed into two houses near Dallas.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| December 16, 2003 | - The Texas Department of Criminal Justice website removed its listing of executed prisoners' last meals. A prison spokesman said the last meals were removed because some people thought they were in "poor taste."
| Source:
Houston Chronicle
|
| December 12, 2003 | - The Pentagon accused Halliburton, which recently removed its name from outside its corporate headquarters in Houston, of overcharging for gasoline in Iraq.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| November 25, 2003 | - Two 16-year-olds in Texas were arrested for plotting to kill 24 people at their high school.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 14, 2003 | -
Texas Republicans produced a very odd-looking congressional map that will probably give the party seven additional seats in Congress. "I'm a Texan trying to get things done," said Tom DeLay, who engineered the highly unusual redistricting.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 10, 2003 | - Four white Texans were arrested for beating a retarded
black man unconscious.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 1, 2003 | - School officials in Paris, Texas, apologized after the high school band played "Deutschland uber alles," with the Nazi flag flying, on the evening of Rosh Hashana.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 26, 2003 | - Eleven Democratic state senators from Texas were still on the run in New Mexico.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 9, 2003 | - Seventeen people died in a car-bomb attack on the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad, and President Bush told reporters down at the ranch in Crawford, Texas, that his men were making "good progress" in Iraq.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 8, 2003 | - Democratic lawmakers from Texas were still on the run in New Mexico.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| July 29, 2003 | - Democratic state legislators in Texas once again fled the state over Republican plans to redraw congressional districts.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| July 12, 2003 | - Eleven people in Texas were quarantined with SARS-like symptoms.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 24, 2003 | - The United States Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan law school's use of affirmative action in its admissions process and overturned a Texas
sodomy law, saying that "the state cannot demean [homosexuals'] existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime."
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New York Times
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| May 15, 2003 | - Fifty-one Democratic state legislators fled Texas for Oklahoma to pre
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