General Motors will be offering up a new version of the Chevrolet Silverado HD next year. The Texas Edition Silverado 2500 and 3500 will offer buyers all of the standard equipment associated with LT trim, plus additional interior and exterior flare. Outside, 20-inch polished aluminum wheels, unique badging and a slathering of chrome over the [...]
Two Houston police officers could be asking “dude, where’s my credibility?” after a suspect accused them of eating his pot brownies. Nicholas Hill, 19, claims that Houston cops took his brownies, that they knew were laced with marijuana, and munched away after arresting the teen for pot possession. ABC 13 found something more substantial than just [...]
As the 2012 presidential campaign has started to take shape, Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry has made much of the Lone Star state’s job-creation numbers during his time in office. But repeated analyses have suggested that once you get past the talking points, Texas job growth under Perry hasn’t actually been very [...]
AUSTIN, Texas — The U.S. Department of Justice said in a court filing Monday that Texas’ new voting maps for Congress and for the Texas House do not meet federal anti-discrimination requirements, setting up a legal battle that will decide the landscape of future elections in the state. The case, which involves the election districts [...]
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry — who as Texas governor has overseen the execution of 235 convicted killers — said Friday that he “respects” the Supreme Court’s decision to halt the execution ofDuane Buck, a black man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her male acquaintance in Texas in 1995. While Buck’s lawyers aren’t questioning his [...]
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential hopefulssparred in a Monday evening debate over immigration, with candidates piling onto Texas Gov. Rick Perry for providing in-state college tuition to some undocumented students. Candidate Rick Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, committed a minor gaffe when he may have inadvertently equated Latinos with “illegals” in his criticism of Perry. (There’s [...]
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – More than a thousand firefighters, aided by lighter winds, on Saturday began to beat back raging wildfires that have scorched Texas for the past six days torching 1,600 homes and killing four people. “We’ve had quite a bit of success today,” Bill Paxton of the Texas Forest Service said of the [...]
WASHINGTON — In Texas, firefighters aren’t just battling the wild fires raging around Austin and Houston. The state’s first responders have also had to deal with budget cuts affecting everything from fuel purchases to hoses and oxygen tanks. In some cases, fire officials say, firefighters have had to pay out of pocket for basic necessities like [...]
Brian Williams becomes the next reporter to almost, but not quite, hold Rick Perry to account for the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham. During the GOP debate Wednesday night, Williams asked without naming Willingham, or going at Perry armed with the science that undermined the prosecution’s case. (A pity: this came on the heels of the [...]
Click to see more images of the Texas wildfires. AUSTIN (Reuters) – Wildfires sweeping across drought-stricken Texas have destroyed more than 1,000 homes in the last several days as they move into more populated areas, Governor Rick Perry said on Tuesday. Perry surveyed damage in west Austin on Tuesday, where dozens of homes have been [...]
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