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Kaitlin Armstrong enters the courtroom to hear the verdict on her murder trial at the Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, in Austin, Texas.

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Texas woman is convicted and faces up to life in prison for killing pro cyclist

Kaitlin Armstrong was convicted in the shooting death of professional cyclist Anna Wilson. Armstrong faces up to life in prison in a case that led investigators on an international search to find her.

November 17, 2023
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Janet Paulsen shows a photo of some of the dozens of guns that police seized from her estranged husband days before he ambushed her at their home in 2015. Paulsen still lives in the home in Acworth, Ga., Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. “Every step of the way it seemed like his rights were more important … than mine and my children’s,” she says.

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Abuse victims say gun surrender laws save lives. Will the Supreme Court agree?

Domestic violence victims believe that 'red flag' laws that remove firearms from people in crisis can save lives. The U.S. Supreme Court will consider the issue in a Texas case next month. Former Georgia prosecutor April Ross has been a quadriplegic since her estranged husband shot her before killing himself in 2014. She says what's lost in the argument is the value of human life — including his.

October 31, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Darryl George will be sent to an alternative school program, from Oct. 12 through Nov. 29 for "failure to comply" with multiple campus and classroom regulations, the Barbers Hill High School principal said in a letter.

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A Black Texas student suspended for his hairstyle is shifted to an alternative school

Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School, who was suspended for wearing a natural hairstyle, will be placed in a disciplinary alternative education program through Nov. 29.

October 12, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Jedidiah Murphy.

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Texas executes man who questioned evidence in deadly carjacking of elderly woman

A Texas man who unsuccessfully challenged the safety of the state's lethal injection drugs and raised questions about evidence used to persuade a jury to sentence him to death was executed Tuesday.

October 11, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Herschel Walker speaks during a campaign stop at the Governors Gun Club, Dec. 5, 2022, in Kennesaw, Ga. Walker's wife is seeking to sell the Atlanta house that Walker listed as a residence during his Senate run.

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Herschel Walker's wife is selling the Atlanta house listed as Republican's residence in Senate run

Herschel Walker's wife is seeking to sell the Atlanta house that the football great listed as his residence when he ran for U.S. Senate last year as a Republican. A real estate listing shows the home was put up for sale in August with an asking price of $1.45 million.

September 27, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Darryl George, a 17-year-old junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, Texas, has been suspended for not cutting his hair.

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A Black Texas student sues after he was suspended over his hairstyle

Darryl George was penalized for wearing his natural hairstyle that officials say violates a dress code. He's suing the state for failing to enforce an anti-discrimination law.

September 23, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
A PEN America report found that the number of books permanently removed from U.S. school libraries and classrooms has quadrupled — to 1,263 books in the last school year from 333 the year before.

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School book bans show no signs of slowing, new PEN America report finds

The number of bans and restrictions in the U.S. rose 33% in the last school year, according the the report. Florida had more bans than any other state.

September 21, 2023
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  • Tovia Smith
Ken Paxton listens to closing arguments Friday in his impeachment trial in the Texas Senate Chamber in Austin.

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Texas Senate acquits state Attorney General Ken Paxton in impeachment trial

Paxton, who has been suspended, faced 16 articles of impeachment tied to allegations that he abused his office to protect a political donor. The Senate vote reinstates Paxton as attorney general.

September 16, 2023
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
A barrier to deter migrants from crossing from Mexico into the U.S. floats in the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass, Texas.

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The floating border barrier in the Rio Grande must be removed, a federal judge rules

The judge gave Texas until Sept. 15 to move the barrier to shore and barred the state from placing any additional buoys or other structures in the river. Gov. Greg Abbott plans to appeal the ruling.

September 07, 2023
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  • Joel Rose
Texas authorities released body camera and dashboard video in which Rep. Ronny Jackson, in red shirt, yells profanities at deputies and troopers at a rodeo.

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In video, Rep. Ronny Jackson yells profanities at Texas trooper, is put on ground

"I'm gonna call the governor tomorrow," Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, said as he shouted obscenities at a trooper during an altercation at a rodeo.

August 15, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
A water station for immigrants containing sealed jugs of fresh water sits along a fence line near a roadway in rural Jim Hogg County, Texas, on July 25.

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Barrels of drinking water for migrants walking through Texas have disappeared

As one of the worst heat waves on record set in across much of the southern United States, barrels of life-saving water for wayward migrants traveling on foot have vanished.

August 12, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
The sun sets behind the memorial for the victims of the massacre at Robb Elementary School in August 2022 in Uvalde, Texas.

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  • National

Uvalde shooter's cousin arrested in San Antonio for threatening to shoot a school

Nathan James Cruz, 17, was arrested on charges of making a terroristic threat and making a terroristic threat against his family. His mother reported his statements to police.

August 08, 2023
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  • Laurel Wamsley
The Center for Reproductive Rights brought the lawsuit on behalf of 13 women and two doctors. The women had pregnancy complications that endangered their lives or had fetuses with fatal anomalies.

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Texas abortion bans are back in place after state appeals judge's order

A day earlier, a Texas judge temporarily blocked the state's abortion bans from being enforced against doctors who perform abortions in cases of medical emergencies and fetal anomalies.

August 05, 2023
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  • Sarah McCammon and
  • Emma Bowman
Texas A&M University has come under fire for suspending and then investigating a professor who spoke critically of Texas Lieutenant Gov. Dan Patrick during a lecture on the opioid crisis last March.

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A Texas A&M professor was suspended for allegedly criticizing lieutenant governor

Joy Alonzo was suspended and investigated after she allegedly criticized Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick at a lecture on the opioid crisis. Free speech advocates call the probe "blatantly inappropriate."

July 26, 2023
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  • Dustin Jones
A row of mailboxes tagged with evacuation notices during the Oak Fire in Mariposa, Calif., in July 2022. Many residents in the area are losing their home insurance because of rising wildfire risk.

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How climate change could cause a home insurance meltdown

It's increasingly expensive and difficult to get home insurance, as losses rise from climate-driven disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes. And the solutions aren't always politically popular.

July 24, 2023
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  • Michael Copley,
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