New census milestone: Hispanics reach 50 million Updated: Thu, Mar 24, 2011 WASHINGTON (AP) — Hispanics accounted for more than half of the U.S. population increase over the last decade, exceeding estimates in most states as they crossed a new census milestone: 50 million, or 1 in 6 Americans. Meanwhile, more than 9 million Americans checked two or more race categories on their 2010... Read More

Judge sentences Tom DeLay to 3 years in prison Updated: Mon, Jan 10, 2011 AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A judge ordered former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to serve three years in prison Monday for his role in a scheme to illegally funnel corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002. Read More

3 more polygamist-sect members indicted in Texas Updated: Mon, Jun 2, 2008 ELDORADO, Texas (AP) -- A west Texas grand jury investigating allegations that members of a polygamist sect sexually abused girls indicted three more people Tuesday, raising the number of defendants in the case to nine. Each of the sect members indicted Tuesday by the Schleicher County grand jury was... Read More

Owasso man caught in sex sting Updated: Tue, Jul 25, 2006 The Texas attorney general announced the arrest Tuesday of an Owasso man he said traveled nearly 500 miles to have sex with a 14-year-old girl he met online. There was no 14-year-old girl, only a sting operation, the attorney general said. Video of arrest Calvin Hoddy Hannah Jr., 51 of... Read More

Wit, humor -- not all Kinky Updated: Sun, Jun 18, 2006 NONFICTION Only Kinky Friedman knows whether he really thinks he will be elected governor of Texas, but there's no doubt he is serious about writing books. He says his 24th book, "Cowboy Logic: The Wit and Wisdom of Kinky Friedman and Some of His Friends" (St. Martin's, $17.95), is one of his career's greatest... Read More

Oklahoma ready for more evacuees Updated: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 Texas officials have asked Oklahoma to be ready for as many as 1,000 Hurricane Rita evacuees, a state emergency spokeswoman said Wednesday. If any evacuees are sent to Oklahoma, all will stay at Camp Gruber, said Michelann Ooten of the Oklahoma Emergency Management Department. The Falls Creek Baptist church camp... Read More

Rita brings 2nd chance to get it right Updated: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 WASHINGTON - As a powerful hurricane nears the coast, the mayor begs residents to evacuate, the governor deploys the National Guard and the president vows a rapid federal response. Politicians are reading from their pre-Katrina scripts as they brace for Rita -- an unwelcome second chance to get it right. The... Read More

Governors frustrated with FEMA Updated: Thu, Sep 8, 2005 Gov. Brad Henry said his counterparts across the country are frustrated at Federal Emergency Management Agency officials who told Oklahoma late Tuesday to back off plans to receive thousands more of Hurricane Katrina evacuees. Henry participated in a conference call early Wednesday between state governors, U.S.... Read More

Governor, first lady tour Camp Gruber, welcome evacuees Updated: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 BRAGGS - Gov. Brad Henry visited here Sunday, telling victims of the deadly Hurricane Katrina that Oklahomans wanted them to feel welcome and the state would do "whatever it takes" to help. "We have toured the site, and let me just say that I could not be more proud of the Oklahomans that have come to the aid of... Read More

Texas to Airlift Some Katrina Refugees Updated: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- With nearly a quarter-million Katrina refugees already in Texas and more still pouring in, Gov. Rick Perry ordered emergency officials Sunday to airlift some of them to other states that have offered help. Perry spokeswoman Kathy Walt said relief centers around the state are running... Read More

Speed-trap allegation under investigation Updated: Mon, Dec 30, 2002 Second of two parts State officials are investigating two communities for possible violations of a speed trap law. The communities are being investigated under a law passed in 2000 that gives the public safety commissioner authority to investigate municipalities accused of operating speed traps. If the... Read More