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Texas attorney general: Democrats ‘far more dangerous’ than nuclear-armed Kim Jong Un
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (R) warned Republicans this week that President Barack Obama’s administration and some Democrats in Texas were “far more dangerous” than North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who has reportedly threatened to blow up Austin with nuclear weapons. At a Monday meeting of the McLennan County…
Officials urge Perry to delay execution
WASHINGTON — More than a dozen current and former prosecutors and lawmakers urged Texas Governor Rick Perry, a Republican presidential candidate, to delay a condemned man’s execution to allow for DNA testing. Henry “Hank” Skinner was sentenced to death for the 1993 triple slaying of his girlfriend, who was beaten…
Polygamist Warren Jeffs guilty of child sex assault
SAN ANGELO, Texas — The leader of a polygamist sect, who made headlines in 2008 when police raided his Texas compound and took away over 450 children, was Thursday found guilty of sexually assaulting two young girls. Warren Jeffs, the spiritual leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of…
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