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Man posing as cop sexually assaults woman
9:46 AM on 03/19/2010
VIDEO - Police in Fort Worth, Texas are searching for a man who sexually assaulted a woman after talking his way into her apartment while wearing a fake police uniform...
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Burglary suspect flees crime scene on child's pink bike
4:18 PM on 03/04/2010
VIDEO - A 12-year-old girl is being credited with stopping a burglary suspect from coming into her Missouri City, Texas home...
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Teenager accused of stabbing grandmother to death
9:30 AM on 02/23/2010
VIDEO - A Texas teenager who told police she found her disabled grandmother dead has been accused of being the killer...
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Supreme Court: No new trial in Texas police officer death
1:15 PM on 02/22/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday reversed a lower court decision that gave a new trial to a man convicted of killing a police officer in Texas...
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Historic black cemetery vandalized in hate-fueled attack
2:21 PM on 02/17/2010
VIDEO - Investigators said someone knocked over and smashed nearly every head stone in the historically African-American cemetery...
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Texas couple sells everything they own to help Haiti
11:53 AM on 02/05/2010
VIDEO - The earthquake in Haiti has given Orlando Alexis a second chance of sorts...
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Texas man charged in deaths of five family members
6:25 PM on 01/21/2010
BELLVILLE, Texas (AP) -- A southeast Texas man was charged Wednesday in the weekend shooting deaths of five family members, including his 2-year-old niece, who also was decapitated...
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YES, inner-city prep school can succeed
9:50 AM on 01/04/2010
HOUSTON (AP) -- This year, North Central, which opened in 2003 and serves 6th through 12th grade, will become the second YES Prep campus to graduate seniors...
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Three-year-old saves grandmother from fire
12:42 PM on 12/29/2009
Three-year old Texas boy is being called a hero after saving his grandmother from a fire. Investigators say the flames destroyed the Houston home Monday afternoon...
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Caught on tape: Officer uses racial slurs in argument
9:56 AM on 12/23/2009
A uniformed Houston police officer, while moonlighting as security, was found using foul language and racial slurs.
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Nigerian woman flees 10 years of slavery in Texas
3:04 PM on 12/14/2009
DALLAS (AP) - She was a widow in a Nigerian village trying to raise six children when she says she met a man who told her he and his wife needed a nanny for their newborn...
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Police seize drugs marked with image of Obama
9:15 AM on 12/03/2009
Illegal drugs in the shape of President Obama are discovered during a drug bust in southern Texas.
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Gay teen beaten after warning school of threats
4:02 PM on 11/19/2009
VIDEO - A 16-year-old boy in Texas says his pleas of help to school officials were ignored last week...
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Muslims should be more vocal in denouncing extremism
11:00 AM on 11/10/2009
OPINION - As a society, we are rapidly approaching a tipping point that will determine whether Muslims and non-Muslims can peacefully coexist.
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African-American Muslims battle both racial and religious bias
4:00 PM on 11/07/2009
OPINION - Muslims in the military will now have to deal with the spillover of the recent massacre and the perceptions that fellow soldiers will have of them.
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Troubling portrait emerges of Fort Hood suspect
8:29 AM on 11/06/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) - His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars...
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Dallas cops ticketing drivers for not speaking English
8:34 AM on 11/03/2009
VIDEO - Dallas police chief David Kunkle met behind closed doors Monday with nearly two dozen officers who ticketed drivers for not speaking English...
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Man accuses store clerk of stealing his $1 million jackpot
8:30 AM on 11/03/2009
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- An attorney for a man who lost out on a $1 million jackpot says the Texas Lottery Commission still considers the store clerk...
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More than 1,000 black employees file discrimination suit against Texas company
7:23 AM on 10/21/2009
LUFKIN, Texas (AP) - A class-action lawsuit describes how a local 107-year-old company discriminated against its black employees, assigning them to the worst jobs and repeatedly denying them promotions...
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'Sippin Syrup' being sold in stores creates controversy
9:50 AM on 09/25/2009
VIDEO -- You see it all over television, celebrities endorsing "syrup," which is a combination of cough syrup with codeine and soda, two ingredients that can make for a lethal recipe...
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Dems down to the wire lobbying for reform votes
VIDEO - They've made some progress. A fourth Democrat, John Boccieri of Ohio, has switched his vote from "no" to "yes."...
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