A little bit about the country from Wikiand from the State Department. In Thursday's piece I laid out my prognostications for the coming little bit of time I'll be away.
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While eating "der Hamburger" at lunch, Boas overheard an "interesting sounding German" - one that sounded a bit odd to him as a native speaker of the language. It was sprinkled with English words and phrases pronounced with a German accent,...What he heard was "Texas German,"
"Two years after writing a law requiring highway 'Welcome to Texas' signs to tout the state as the home of President Bush, state Rep. Ken Paxton [yesterday] passed a bill that will remove the designation once the 43rd president leaves office."
Investigators were trying to determine how the 2-year-old girl got the small baggy Wednesday. It contained an off-white substance that tested positive for cocaine, police spokesman Steve Anderson said.
Six people were killed when severe storms spawned a tornado that struck a small community near the Mexican border Tuesday, officials said.
Students who claimed their civil rights were violated when they were issued citations for leaving school to attend immigration protest marches have settled their lawsuit with the city, officials said.
Gasoline prices across Texas are up for the 10th straight week, hurt by weak supply and high demand.
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Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, is pushing a package of bills to help the wrongly convicted. They include: - Creating a state Innocence Commission to examine cases where the innocent have been convicted to find out why. - Boost compensation for wrongful imprisonment from $25,000 to $50,000 per year incarcerated and remove the $500,000 cap. Deat
The letter, sent to the PUC on Monday by TXU Wholesale Chairman Mike McCall, came as the company jousted with regulators over $210 million in proposed penalties levied in March for allegedly manipulating the Texas power market in the summer of 2005. McCall wrote that if the company and PUC couldn't come up with rules governing how much the company
As Alberto Gonzales prepares to face Congress this month, his role in the dismissals of U.S. attorneys isn't the only issue under scrutiny. There is also loyalty as defined by the Bush administration. Some Republicans, including former Justice Department spokesman Mark Corallo, say Lone Star loyalty "is the only reason Gonzales is still around
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A new Texas law will protect you from being sued if you shoot someone for breaking into your house or attempting rape/murder. About time. FTA: "The law also provides civil immunity for a person who lawfully slays an intruder or attacker".
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A Texas boy has become a scared-straight spokesman against a choking game after he nearly died playing it.
The four BP oil workers who were filling a vertical tank with chemicals when it exploded in America's worst industrial accident for a generation had all been working 12-hour shifts for more than four weeks without a day off.
A woman posing as a nurse abducted a 3-day-old girl in need of medical attention from a hospital in Lubbock, Texas, on Saturday, police said.
If it were built, the road would be one of the engineering wonders of the 21st century -a trade route a quarter of a mile wide, carving a path from Mexico through the heart of America to Canada.
Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday angrily defended his relationship with Merck & Co. and his executive order requiring that schoolgirls receive the drugmaker's vaccine against the sexually transmitted cervical-cancer virus.
Gov. Rick Perry's order requiring schoolgirls to be vaccinated against a virus linked to cervical cancer underwent its first test Monday as the House Public Health Committee heard legislation to rescind the edict and replace it with an education program on the virus.
As a mother of six, Alice Miller said she makes the decisions about what is best for her children. Republican Gov. Rick Perry does not. Miller said she has been livid since hearing Perry's order that Texas girls will be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted disease that causes cervical cancer.
Texas made good on its threat to sue Sprint Nextel Corp., asserting the No. 3 mobile-phone carrier's imposition of a new fee violates the state's deceptive trade practices law and a 2004 industry settlement with state attorneys general around the country.
Although he was born a 'blue blood' in New Haven Connecticut, George found wealth and fame in Texas. He sings this song for his adopted home state.
One out of three Texas students don't graduate, and more students drop out than finish high school in the state's largest cities.
A Texas company says it can make a new ultracapacitor power system to replace the electrochemical batteries in everything from cars to laptops.
The spread of prostate cancer can be halted with a drug which "strangles" tumour cells by cutting off their blood supply, a study has suggested.










