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  Appeals Court Finds Dallas Man Wrongfully Convicted of Capital Murder "Actually Innocent"

  Thursday, December 20, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Steven Mark Chaney is innocent, Texas' highest criminal court ruled Wednesday, ending a three-decades-long ordeal for the Dallas man. Chaney, the court said, did not kill John and Sally Sweek, a Dallas couple found stabbed to death in their apartment in 1987. Prosecutors, who told jurors at Chaney's 1987 trial...

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  What Friday's Affordable Care Act Ruling Means for Texas

  Tuesday, December 18, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  The headline — "Fort Worth Judge Strikes Down Affordable Care Act" — was easy enough to understand, at least on its face, Friday evening. The potential fallout was harder to break down. Yes, U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor, handpicked by the Texas Attorney General's Office to hear its claims that...

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  Speech Pathologist Sues for Her Right to Boycott Israel in Texas

  Tuesday, December 18, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  A Texas speech pathologist is suing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the Pflugerville Independent School District over a Texas law that requires contractors and businesses to sign a pledge promising not to boycott Israel. For nine years, plaintiff Bahia Amawi signed an annual contract with Pflugerville ISD without an...

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  Former Cowboys Player, Defunct Dallas Bar Found Equally Responsible for 2012 Death

  Friday, December 14, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  A now-closed Dallas nightclub and former Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Josh Brent bear joint responsibility for the death of Brent's best friend and former teammate Jerry Brown in a 2012 car accident, a Dallas County jury decided. During a nearly weeklong trial, attorneys for Brown's family asked the jury to...

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  Fight Persists Against Stephenville Company Spunky Squaw's Name

  Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  The Spunky Squaw, a Stephenville-based online boutique that was ensnared in a controversy in October for their use of what many believe was a racist slur in their business name, recently had their website taken down, causing a collective sigh of relief from American Indian activists who were campaigning against the...

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  Texas AG Paxton Joins Trump in DACA Supreme Court Fight

  Friday, December 7, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton continues to do everything in his power to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, which allows undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to live and work in the United States without fear of deportation. Thursday afternoon, Paxton announced he's leading a...