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Campus carry bill clears committee, heads to full Texas Senate vote
Dallas :: GA :: USA | 4 days ago
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The Senate Criminal Justice Committee voted 4-2 to send a bill to the full Senate that will allow licensed gun holders to carry their weapons into classrooms and campus buildings. During the hearing, commmittee chairman Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston,
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Legislative deal would shut 2 state prisons
Mineral Wells :: TX :: USA | 8 days ago
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Texas (AP) Texas Senate and House budget negotiators have tentatively agreed to close two privately run state prisons. The Texas Board of Criminal Justice would decide which two prisons to shutter under the Friday's agreement, the Austin American-
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What would be your last meal on death row?
Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | 19 days ago
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A NEW Zealand artist has been invited to display his photographs of the last meals of prison inmates on death row in the US at a Venice exhibition later this year. Henry Hargreaves told news.com.au he created the photo essay in order to inspire a
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Lawmakers hear bills to help sex assault victims
Fort Worth :: TX :: USA | 25 days ago
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Texas (AP) Texas lawmakers are advancing proposals to help sexual assault victims. State Sen. John Whitmire is chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee . The Houston Democrat expressed support Tuesday for legislation to require hospitals to
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Democrats try to repeal anti-gay law
Austin :: TX :: USA | 1 month ago
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Texas (AP) The Senate Criminal Justice Committee voted on Wednesday to repeal the state's anti-gay sodomy law, a decade after the U.S...Texas, along with Oklahoma and Kansas, will be the only states that still have the law on the books after Montana'
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Michael Morton Act passes Senate unanimously
Houston :: TX :: USA | 1 month ago
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The bi-partisan bill named for exoneree Michael Morton just passed the Texas Senate...Gov. David Dewhurst used a specially inscribed gavel to proclaim it passed, and handed the gavel to Sen. Rodney Ellis for a presentation ceremony to Morton on the
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Senate approves bill to limit ticketing youth
Jackson :: MS :: USA | 1 month ago
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Texas (AP) Faced with a documented pattern of teenagers pushed into the criminal justice system for acting out in class, Texas lawmakers on Thursday advanced a measure to start decriminalizing youthful misbehavior. The Senate unanimously approved a
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Texas House nearing passage of massive state budget
Fort Worth :: TX :: USA | 1 month ago
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House members on Thursday rejected assaults on programs tied to Gov. Rick Perry's office today as they began debating a $193.8 billion state budget that partly restores cuts imposed by the 2011 Legislature. In what appeared to be a test vote in a
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Texas bill to reduce the required hours of concealed handgun licensing course left pending
Newtown :: United Kingdom | 1 month ago
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A bill that would to reduce the required hours spent teaching a concealed handgun licensing course received a committee stamp of approval, but will be left pending. No one spoke against it at the hearing and the bipartisan group of senators on the
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Cleburne school district to consider allowing teachers to carry concealed handguns
Cleburne :: TX :: USA | 4 months ago
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The Cleburne school district tonight may be the first school in a metropolitan area in Texas to consider arming teachers. The school board will discuss the controversial proposal tonight during its regularly scheduled meeting at 6 p.m. Cleburne
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