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Dec 13, 2015 5:00 PM CST

'Mass Farting' Meets Fake Gun Massacre

Protesters take to the streets in Austin, Texas

(Newser) - The gun-rights debate has apparently boiled down to a fake mass shooting and machines that spit out fart noises. It all happened Saturday in Austin, Texas, where pro-gun activists staged a mock gun-massacre at a church and anti-gun protesters countered with what they called a "mass farting," the...

Cops: Smuggler Caught
Using Fake Border
Patrol SUV

Dec 12, 2015 5:00 PM CST

Cops: Smuggler Caught Using Fake Border Patrol SUV

'Something was not quite right'

(Newser) - There's such a fine line between clever and stupid. On Thursday, a Border Patrol agent in Laredo, Texas, stopped a man allegedly attempting to smuggle a dozen undocumented immigrants in the back of a fake Border Patrol SUV, the New York Daily News reports. "To a casual observer,...

Texas Company
Rewards Employees
With $100K Bonuses

Dec 9, 2015 2:21 PM CST

Texas Company Rewards Employees With $100K Bonuses

'They are such amazing motivators'

(Newser) - Fortune named Houston's Hilcorp Energy as the 20th best place to work in the US last year. And boy were they not kidding. The Houston Business Journal reports the oil and gas company recently handed out $100,000 bonuses to every employee as a reward for meeting the...

Gun-Rights Groups
Holding Fake Mass
Shooting at UT

Dec 9, 2015 1:59 PM CST

Gun-Rights Groups Holding Fake Mass Shooting at UT

'An armed society is a polite society'

(Newser) - Two Texas gun-rights groups will be holding a "mock mass shooting" at the University of Texas in Austin on Saturday in an effort to put an end to gun-free zones in the state, the Austin American-Statesman reports. Actors armed with cardboard guns will go around "shooting" other actors...

What Lawsuit? Syrian Refugees Arrive in Texas

Despite Lawsuit,
Syrian Refugees
Arrive in Texas

Dec 7, 2015 3:50 PM CST

Despite Lawsuit, Syrian Refugees Arrive in Texas

Texas alters strategy against resettlement agency

(Newser) - Hide your husbands, hide your wives: A family of six Syrian refugees is arriving in Dallas today as Texas shifts its legal strategy against refugee resettlement, the Dallas Morning News reports. The family—which includes two small children and has a relative in Dallas—came over with a relief agency...

Beer Pong Video Could Sink
Infamous 'Affluenza' Teen

Dec 4, 2015 1:14 PM CST

Beer Pong Video Could Sink Infamous 'Affluenza' Teen

Teen whose wealth helped him avoid prison could be violating his probation

(Newser) - The Texas teen who famously cited "affluenza" in a successful bid to skirt prison time after killing four people in a drunk driving crash is once again facing possible incarceration, after a 6-second video allegedly showing him playing beer pong surfaced on Twitter this week. The tweet from @BlondeSpectre...

Coast Guard Rescues 50 Sharks From Illegal Nets

Coast Guard Spots Illegal Boats, Begins a Rescue

Dec 3, 2015 8:09 AM CST

Coast Guard Spots Illegal Boats, Begins a Rescue

50 sharks were set free in Gulf of Mexico

(Newser) - The US Coast Guard rescued 50 sharks caught illegally near Texas' South Padre Island on Tuesday. Coast Guard members were patrolling near the island when they spotted four Mexican fishing boats about 800 yards north of the US-Mexico maritime boundary line, reports WVUE . As the Coast Guard approached, officials say...

Texas Sues to Keep Out
Syrian Refugee Family

Dec 3, 2015 5:05 AM CST

Texas Sues to Keep Out Syrian Refugee Family

They could cause 'irreparable injury,' lawsuit says

(Newser) - Texas could suffer "irreparable injury" if three generations of a family that fled the Syrian civil war are allowed to fly to Dallas from Jordan on Friday, according to the state's lawyers. Texas has filed a lawsuit to prevent the refugees—a man named Tamman, his wife, their...

Texas Threatens
to Sue Refugee
Resettlement
Group

Nov 30, 2015 7:47 AM CST

Texas Threatens to Sue Refugee Resettlement Group

Critics say the warning should raise 'serious concerns'

(Newser) - Last week, the Obama administration reminded states they don't have the legal authority to turn away Syrian refugees. But that's not stopping Texas officials from doubling down on efforts to block refugees, and their latest move includes a threatened lawsuit against the Dallas branch of a resettlement group,...

Group Posts Addresses of 'Muslim Sympathizers'

Nov 27, 2015 5:20 PM CST

Group Posts Addresses of 'Muslim Sympathizers'

Days earlier, members held an armed rally outside a Texas mosque

(Newser) - The group responsible for an armed anti-Muslim protest at a Dallas-area mosque last weekend posted a list containing the names and addresses of dozens of Muslims and "Muslim sympathizers" to Facebook on Wednesday, the Dallas Morning News reports. According to the Huffington Post , the list contained personal information about...

Deadly Weather
Hits Central
US for Holiday
Weekend

Nov 27, 2015 3:21 PM CST

Deadly Weather Hits Central US for Holiday Weekend

At least 6 people have been reported dead since Thursday

(Newser) - Deadly weather hit the central US at the beginning of the holiday weekend, with at least six people reported dead across multiple states as of Friday morning. WFAA reports four fatalities due to heavy flooding in north Texas. One body was pulled from a submerged Hyundai after the driver apparently...

Teen's Disappearance May
Be Solved After 25 Years

Nov 26, 2015 10:17 AM CST

Teen's Disappearance May Be Solved After 25 Years

Remains linked to Rosemary Diaz found 2 miles from where she was last seen

(Newser) - Rosemary Diaz was just 15 when she vanished while working at a country store just a half-mile from her home in Texas' Wharton County on Nov. 24, 1990. Police were unable to solve her disappearance even after the case appeared on America's Most Wanted, but new evidence suggests the...

Mom, Boyfriend Arrested
in Toddler's Oven Death

Nov 25, 2015 5:44 AM CST

Mom, Boyfriend Arrested in Toddler's Oven Death

They left 4 young kids home alone to go for pizza

(Newser) - The mother of a 19-month-old who died a horrific death after being left at home with three siblings may be in jail when her next baby arrives. Racqual Thompson, who is 8 1/2 months pregnant, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with child endangerment, along with boyfriend Cornell Malone, reports...

Planned Parenthood
Is Suing Texas

Nov 24, 2015 4:01 AM CST

Planned Parenthood Is Suing Texas

The state is trying to block Medicaid dollars

(Newser) - Planned Parenthood sued again Monday over efforts by Republican governors to block Medicaid funding to the nation's largest abortion provider, this time against Texas, where the organization says health care access to 13,500 women is on the line. Federal courts have so far halted similar attempts in Arkansas,...

'Clock Kid' Wants
$15M and Some
Apologies

Nov 23, 2015 2:50 PM CST

'Clock Kid' Wants $15M and Some Apologies

Ahmed Mohamed's family threatens civil lawsuit

(Newser) - The family of "clock kid" Ahmed Mohamed hasn't exactly forgotten about his arrest in September . Their lawyer today sent letters to the city hall and school district of Irving, Texas, threatening to file a civil lawsuit within 60 days unless they receive apologies and $15 million in payments,...

Thousands of Texans
Have Tried to Give
Selves Abortions

NEW STUDY

Nov 18, 2015 9:44 AM CST

Thousands of Texans Have Tried to Give Selves Abortions

Among at-home methods: booze, drugs, 'getting hit or punched in the abdomen'

(Newser) - "It was the worst cramping I've ever had and probably one of the worst pains I've gone through. And … there's always that slight uncertainty of ... I don't really know what I'm doing." This interview with a 24-year-old Texas woman, part of a...

Police: Man Befriended
Campers, Then Killed Them

UPDATED

Nov 18, 2015 7:00 AM CST

Police: Man Befriended Campers, Then Killed Them

Victims were a family celebrating a 24th birthday

(Newser) - William Hudson helped a family of seven get their vehicle unstuck from mud Saturday at an East Texas campsite and hung out with them for a bit, the AP reports. "Then something went wrong," Sheriff Greg Taylor tells the Corsicana Daily Sun . According to the AP, Hudson allegedly...

6 Found Dead
in Campsite
Massacre

Nov 16, 2015 5:22 PM CST

6 Found Dead in Campsite Massacre

Guy who lived next door is the main suspect

(Newser) - Six people were killed at a Texas campsite and a suspect has been arrested and charged in the weekend homicides, authorities said Monday. Anderson County Sheriff Greg Taylor says the bodies were found in rural Anderson County, southeast of Dallas. William Hudson, 33, is charged with one murder count and...

Supreme Court Agrees to
Hear Major Abortion Case

Nov 13, 2015 1:58 PM CST

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Major Abortion Case

For the first time since 2007

(Newser) - The Supreme Court is taking on its first abortion case in eight years, a dispute over state regulation of abortion clinics. The justices said Friday they will hear arguments over a Texas law that would leave about 10 abortion clinics open across the state. A decision should come by late...

'Person of Interest' in
Judge's Shooting Arrested

Nov 10, 2015 5:02 AM CST

'Person of Interest' in Judge's Shooting Arrested

He was picked up on unrelated charge in Houston

(Newser) - Police in Houston have arrested a man described as a "person of interest" in Friday night's attempted assassination of Judge Julie Kocurek, according to the Austin Police Department. The arrest was on "unrelated charges," according to a brief statement from the department. Sources tell the Austin ...