Boy Dies After Fall From Car Driven by Teen
Arlington police report a 6yearold boy died from a head injury after falling from a car driven by his unlicensed 14yearold sister who fled the scene following an argument. The teen faces charges of injury to a child and failure to stop and render aid. name withheld due to age. The boy died Thursday at a hospital.
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Texas Supreme Court orders new trial in Wise County crash
The court unanimously threw out a 15.8 million civil verdict from a northern Texas wreck that killed four family members. Judges ruled prosecutors improperly introduced evidence that the gravel truck driver was an illegal immigrant to inflame jurors. The ruling allows the victims' family to reintroduce an accident reconstruction expert’s testimony that blamed the crash on the truck driver and TXI Transportation Co.
No sign of missing baby in landfill found
San Antonio police ended the landfill search after examining 4,600 tons of debris with no evidence tying to baby Gabriel Johnson who vanished in December. His mother, 23-year-old Gabriel Johnson from Tempe Arizona, remains jailed in Arizona and has refused to disclose the infant's whereabouts.
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Former Texas official named to cancer research panel
Gov. Rick Perry appointed former Texas Secretary of State Phil Wilson to the oversight committee of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. The panel governs the $3 billion fund created by voters in 2007, the nation is the second largest cancer research pot.
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Census works to reach immigrants beyond border areas
Census forms arrive as officials face Texas counting challenges with hard to count immigrant groups. Harris County and Dallas County are among the hardest in Texas with fear of police and deportation cited as barriers. The bureau has launched a bilingual, Spanish heavy campaign and will hire bilingual workers to engage localized communities.
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Hardest US counties to count include Texas leaders in top 20
The Census Bureau lists Harris Dallas Hidalgo and Bexar among the nations hardest to count while El Paso Cameron Tarrant Travis rank further down in Texas. Officials stress confidentiality and safety to reassure immigrants, with mailouts starting this week to over 120 million households and Texas eyeing 3 or 4 additional House seats.
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Salazar urges Big Bend bid for cross border park plan
Secretary Ken Salazar visited Big Bend National Park to promote a federal plan converting the 801,000 acre desert reserve into a unified international park with Mexico. He cited 10.6 million dollars in stimulus funds to repair roads and upgrade facilities as officials navigate border crossing and immigration hurdles, aiming for a Obama administration proposal.
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