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TribBlog: Fort Hood Shootings

by Elise Hu

As news of the Fort Hood shootings unfolds, we'll be adding links, maps, audio, photographs, and other information from around the web to this post.

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TribBlog: Tarrant County College sued for banning empty holster protest

by Brian Thevenot

“It’s both an ideological concern and a safety concern,” one of the student plaintiffs said. “Obviously college campuses aren’t some magical zone where no violence occurs, and so I feel particularly strongly that every student that feels the need to carry handgun anywhere in their lives should also be able to do so on a college campus.”

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The Brief: November 5, 2009

by Reeve Hamilton

Recommendation: Do not get swine flu.  Tracking the vaccine is getting to be like figuring out what happened to all the TARP money. 

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Too busy for a review

by Elise Hu

Just days before it was set to review a case in which the state has been accused of executing an innocent man, Gov. Rick Perry replaced the chairman and two other members of an independent state forensics panel.

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Help Wanted

by Matt Stiles

More than two-dozen people have asked Gov. Rick Perry to appoint them to replace former Texas Supreme Court Justice Scott Brister, who resigned recently to return to private practice.

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Ross Ramsey

State technology chief resigns

by Emily Ramshaw

The executive director of the state's data and information technology agency stepped down last month. Brian Rawson, who spent the last three years overseeing the state's data consolidation and telecommunications efforts for the Department of Information Resources, will run "statewide data initiatives" for the Texas Education Agency.

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Third time's the charm?

by Brandi Grissom

El Paso District Judge Bill Moody said Monday that he plans to make a third run for the Texas Supreme Court.

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