Read more Texas stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/687/texas.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 14:08:18 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74541/46-years-after-kennedy-the-virus-of-hate-is-back.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTomorrow’s 46th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination provides an occasion for Mark Warren to examine “the paranoid strain in the American polity” that has reasserted itself since the election of President Obama, and finds in a Texas Republican congressman just the sort of “skinhead reprobate” whose demagoguery could move one...http://www.newser.com/story/74541/46-years-after-kennedy-the-virus-of-hate-is-back.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 21 Nov 2009 9:08:59 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74400/texas-accidentally-bans-straight-marriage.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe geniuses who wrote Texas’ gay marriage ban may have accidentally banned all marriage in the state, according to one Houston lawyer. Subsection B of the ban, a constitutional amendment ratified in 2005, states, “This state…may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage.” The intent...http://www.newser.com/story/74400/texas-accidentally-bans-straight-marriage.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Nov 2009 7:28:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74038/hutchison-wont-resign-senate-seat.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRepublican Kay Bailey Hutchison, who is challenging Texas Gov. Rick Perry for his job, is planning to keep her US Senate seat until after the state's March gubernatorial primary. Hutchison, a Republican, plans to tell Republican women in a speech in Galveston today that she is stepping down in 2010...http://www.newser.com/story/74038/hutchison-wont-resign-senate-seat.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 14 Nov 2009 7:11:37 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74016/this-is-a-1m-car-in-a-lagoon.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Texas driver distracted by a low-flying pelican took an unexpected detour—into 3 feet of water. Andy House, 34, drove a Bugatti Veyron EB, worth about $1 million, into a saltwater lagoon near Galveston. "He was calm,” the driver of the wrecker that took away the waterlogged French sports...http://www.newser.com/story/74016/this-is-a-1m-car-in-a-lagoon.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 13 Nov 2009 15:45:36 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73591/months-of-clues-missed-in-hasan-rampage.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSigns that the Fort Hood gunman could snap emerged not just days before his deadly rampage, but months earlier, say witnesses. Major Nidal Malik Hasan bought a gun soon after he arrived at the base last summer, and grew increasingly agitated and vocal over years about his opposition to the...http://www.newser.com/story/73591/months-of-clues-missed-in-hasan-rampage.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Nov 2009 4:51:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73576/rattled-residents-flood-local-churches.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagChurch attendance was up today in the area around Fort Hood, Texas, where at least one congregation heard a somewhat unexpected appeal. "Lord, we pray for Major Hasan‘s family, who find themselves in a position no one wants to be in—to try and explain the unexplainable," said the chaplain...http://www.newser.com/story/73576/rattled-residents-flood-local-churches.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 08 Nov 2009 15:42:31 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73475/let-states-lead-on-health-care.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe states have a handle on health care reform, write Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry, and the federal government urgently needs to take a lesson from them. “Texas, for example, has adopted approaches to controlling health-care costs while improving choice, advancing quality of care and expanding coverage” write the former...http://www.newser.com/story/73475/let-states-lead-on-health-care.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 06 Nov 2009 13:44:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73489/hero-cop-took-down-shooter-in-amazing-performance.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSgt. Kimberly Munley, a civilian police officer, has earned the highest praise for taking down the Fort Hood gunman. She and her partner responded to the scene within 3 minutes, base commander Lt. Gen. Robert Cone reports, and she pumped four bullets into Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, from just a...http://www.newser.com/story/73489/hero-cop-took-down-shooter-in-amazing-performance.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 06 Nov 2009 10:56:12 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73425/12-dead-31-wounded-in-fort-hood-shootings.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTwelve people are dead and 31 wounded after a shooting spree at Fort Hood, the Texas Army base. One shooter is among the dead and two more suspects are in custody. All are US soldiers, said an Army official. All the casualties took place at the base's Soldier Readiness Center,...http://www.newser.com/story/73425/12-dead-31-wounded-in-fort-hood-shootings.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 05 Nov 2009 16:09:44 CST