Buoyant Santorum Takes Campaign To Texas — And Corrals Some Perry People
Fresh off his hat trick in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum campaigned in Texas on Wednesday, speaking to a group of pastors at Bella Donna Chapel in the town of...
View Article800-Year-Old Frescoes Leave Texas For Cyprus
A set of 13th-century Byzantine frescoes — plundered after Turkey invaded Cyprus and on display in Houston for the last 15 years — is headed home at last. It's the closing chapter in what turns out to...
View ArticleLots Of GOP Money Flowing From The Texas Two
The latest reports from the Federal Election Commission shed new light on the political largesse of two Texas businessmen who have become common names in the world of Republican fundraising. With a $1...
View ArticleBankrupt American Airlines Spars With Unions
With US Airways breathing down its neck, making nice with its unions as well as its creditors, American Airlines came to New York City on Monday to ask a federal bankruptcy judge for relief. Mostly,...
View ArticleFree After 25 Years: A Tale Of Murder And Injustice
The past few years in Texas have seen a parade of DNA exonerations: more than 40 men so far. The first exonerations were big news, but the type has grown smaller as Texans have watched a dismaying...
View ArticleTexas Senate Hopefuls Woo Republicans Of All Stripes
It's high noon in Texas at the Stephenville Community Center out on Highway 67, and the Cross Timbers Republican Women's Club Candidates Forum is about to begin. Time has run out on this Republican...
View ArticleWith One Wish, Banishing Memories Of Jim Crow
As the sun beams down, Dorothy Flood, 75, stands on the steps of the Royal Gorge Route Railroad train, smiling like a 1940s movie star. "Right there! Then turn around, right there!" photographers call...
View ArticleLake Lures Fishermen ... And Drug Traffickers
On the long drive to Falcon Lake, it slowly becomes apparent why it's ranked the No. 1 bass fishing lake in America: It's in the middle of nowhere. The lake straddles the Texas-Mexico border, and San...
View ArticleIn Bankruptcy, American Airlines Looks At All Options
Imagine going into bankruptcy with billions of dollars in cash still in your bank account. That's what American Airlines did last November. The thinking was that management would gut the company's...
View ArticleRain Over Texas Quenches Dry Lone Star State
While severe drought is taking hold in the Midwest, Texas is doing better. At this time last year, the state was on fire, crops were desiccated in the field and livestock were slowly starving. But...
View ArticleWhen The Ship Comes In To Brownsville, Rip it Up
This fall, the U.S. Navy will contract three Cold War-era aircraft carriers — the USS Forrestal, the USS Saratoga and the USS Constellation — for scrapping. Often called "supercarriers" owing to their...
View ArticleDallas Turns To Aerial Spraying To Control West Nile
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block. Texas can't catch a break. First, a bitter drought, now officials in Dallas are fighting a nasty...
View ArticleCourt Paves Way For Texas Planned Parenthood Cuts
Officials in Texas say they will cut off state funding to Planned Parenthood following a federal court ruling last week. The decision by a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says the state...
View ArticleMany Texans Bereaved Over 'Dead' Voter Purge
Quite a few Texas voters are seeing dead people in the mirror these days when they go to brush their teeth in the morning. In Houston, high school nurse Terry Collins got a letter informing her that...
View ArticleSmoke Cleared, Texas Gun Owners Remain Wary
Texas state Rep. Wayne Christian was born two blocks from where he now lives in what is called Deep East Texas. "We were not wealthy people, [we were] common laborers, but that was typical in rural...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines Fliers Fed Up As Labor Clash Rages
Pat Henneberry is an airline's dream customer. She flies all week, every week, and buying an $800 ticket so that she can have full flexibility is standard operating procedure. She's an American...
View ArticleGOP Governors Say Party Lost On Strategy, Not Issues
Republican governors got together in Las Vegas last week to take stock of the election results, which continue to sink in. Going into Election Day, Republican confidence was high that the Grand Old...
View ArticleTeenager's Faith At Odds With Locator Tags In School IDs
A federal court in Texas on Monday will take up the case of a high-school student who refuses to wear her location-tracking school ID.The 15-year-old sophomore says the ID badge, which has an embedded...
View ArticleAmid Calls For Gun Control, Some Push For Weapons At School
A growing number of lawmakers are indicating they are open to considering new gun control measures in the wake of Friday's school shooting in Newtown, Conn. But while much of the national debate has...
View ArticleTea Party Texan Cruz Gives GOP Hope In Hunt For Hispanic Votes
Sen.-elect Ted Cruz of Texas is a bright young Hispanic star who will be sworn in this week in Washington. The Republican Party nationally hopes Cruz will be part of the solution to its growing problem...
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