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  • A man from Guatemala has pleaded guilty in Texas to illegally crossing the U.S. border and stabbing a Border Patrol dog
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  • A North Texas man faces up to life in prison and a $5 million fine for his role in running a methamphetamine ring
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  • Police are seeking a gunman who fatally shot a man sitting in an SUV in the town square of an upscale North Texas city
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  • An East Texas lawyer convicted in a mail and medical fraud scheme has been sentenced to more than three years in prison
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  • Retail gasoline prices across Texas have risen 2 cents as travelers prepare for the long Memorial Day holiday weekend
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  • An East Texas pastor has been sentenced to two years in prison for an online chat from church with an alleged 14-year-old girl who turned out to be a Louisiana trooper
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  • Artist Jack Zajac says that learning earlier this year that his bronze sculpture was among the last works of art seen by President John F. Kennedy left him feeling 'reverential'
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  • A stalemate over a Texas budget deal eased late Wednesday when the House and Senate finally backed down and took up major pieces of a roughly $100 billion spending package that is the biggest order of business left for the Legislature
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  • Hecklers demanding that Texas expand the Medicaid program under the White House-backed health care law repeatedly interrupted a speech by Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday, then descended on his office for a meeting to keep pressing their case
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  • The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage says he wants to represent himself at his upcoming trial.
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  • A grand jury has indicted a North Texas man who authorities say threatened his fiancee with a handgun and then set her home on fire during a police standoff
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  • A North Texas woman whose year-old daughter died after being left for hours in a car has told authorities she thought she dropped off the child earlier at a day care
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  • One driver has been killed and three students injured when a car drifted into oncoming traffic and struck a school bus in East Texas
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  • An East Texas restaurant worker standing outside the eatery and holding an umbrella during a storm has died after being hit by lightning
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  • A building contractor must serve more than a year in prison over a failed attempt to burn an East Texas methadone clinic in a rivalry for patients
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  • A Central Texas woman has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for beating and shooting her ex-husband amid a child custody dispute
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  • The agency looking into last year's train collision that killed four veterans on a parade float in Texas is set to release documents from its investigation
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  • The Boy Scouts of America will convene a two-day meeting of 1,400 local leaders to consider changing its long-standing ban on allowing openly gay boys to don the Boy Scouts uniform
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  • In the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature, a furious final week is being dominated by distrust, deadlines and delays
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  • Fort Bliss officials and soldiers will honor three soldiers killed last week by the blast from a roadside bomb in Afghanistan
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  • A chandelier by glass artist Dale Chihuly that once belonged to former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford is to be sold at auction to raise money to help compensate victims of his Ponzi scheme
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  • A judge has ruled that a North Texas lesbian couple can't live together because of a morality clause in the divorce papers of one of the women
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  • Seeking to help the state's youngest students develop nutritious habits, Texas lawmakers on Tuesday approved banning the sale of sugary drinks in public elementary and junior high schools
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  • The Texas Senate has approved a plan to give property tax relief to the spouses of military members killed in combat
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  • A North Texas husband and wife have been charged with felony injury to a child after their 4-year-old adopted son was found dead at their home
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  • Disaster help may be available for losses not covered by insurance in a Central Texas town recovering from a fertilizer plant explosion
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  • The Texas House is considering a proposal that would create special districts operated by turnaround experts to improve struggling schools
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  • Forecasters expect a stormy day across North Texas and East Texas as another day of severe thunderstorms are expected to make it into the Dallas-Fort Worth area
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  • The Texas House late Monday approved a plan to train some teachers who are already licensed to carry firearms for gunfights that could erupt in their classrooms
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  • A firefighter's body was recovered Monday several hours after he called for help because he was trapped in a condominium complex blaze
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  • A strong storm authorities suspect was a tornado smashed the public school complex in a small town in the rolling hills southwest of the Dallas-Fort Worth area
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  • Military officials have identified the third Fort Bliss soldier killed recently in Afghanistan by an improvised explosive device
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  • The Austin metro area saw the nation's second-fastest increase in the number of poor people living in the suburbs from 2000 to 2011, according to a study released Monday
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  • More Texas troopers will be on patrol over the Memorial Day weekend watching for speeders, drunken drivers and travelers not wearing seat belts
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  • A combination of weather events have Central Texas peach farmers expecting a meager crop once again this season, after several years of little yield due to whimsical weather
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  • Investigators say four people have been killed in South Texas traffic accident involving a truck, a motorcycle and a car
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  • Supporters say a new water taxi service across the Corpus Christi Ship Channel is meant to bolster tourism in the city's Sports Entertainment Arts District
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  • Two women playing video games at a North Texas convenience store and a worker have been burned after a suspect set one of those customers on fire
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  • Hundreds of people joined the parents of a 13-year-old Texas cheerleader to remember the teenager who disappeared in December 2010 and turned up dead last month
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  • A legal battle between a suburban Dallas neighborhood association and a homeowner seeking to install solar panels on his house exposed problems with a state law passed in 2011
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  • Police are investigating the death of a Dallas man found shot to death on the front porch of his home
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  • Hundreds are expected to attend a memorial for a Texas cheerleader whose remains were found more than two years after she disappeared
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  • A Dallas man who was in a hospital being treated for a gunshot wound has been arrested after an auto shop owner was killed in a shootout
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  • A federal magistrate has refused to appoint appellate attorneys for an Amarillo mother and daughter convicted in a 1995 murder-for-hire scheme
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  • Billie Sol Estes may have been infamous as a swindler who spent time in prison for Texas-sized schemes, but his family and friends say he was a loving, generous man who once gave his Cadillac to a stranger who needed a ride
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  • Texas Tech University students will not pay more for tuition and fees in 2013-14
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  • Baylor University regents have approved a plan to build a $13.6 million track stadium at the Waco campus
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  • Sheriff deputies say two people found in a burned suburban Austin home were murdered
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  • A 300-pound Fort Worth man died shortly after police fired a Taser stun gun at him during a drug raid
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  • El Paso police used a bomb squad to investigate the home of a high school teacher arrested on charges he had an improper relationship with a student
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