Emerging from ruin, Big Easy at crossroads
Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of New Orleans and drove half its citizens into an exile from which they've yet to return, the Big Easy today...
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Guns deep in the hearts of Texans
Much of the rest of the nation might have begun debating whether new gun-control measures are in order in the wake of the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history...
Sanctuary case dropped
In an abrupt turnabout that has left some animal-rights activists perplexed, the Texas attorney general has decided to abandon the state's efforts to seize a San Antonio animal sanctuary whose...
$9 million award in beating case
Billy Ray Johnson was not in court Friday when a jury in the small east Texas town of Linden assessed $9 million in civil damages against the four white men...
Freed teen: ‘I feel like I have a 2nd chance’
After spending a year behind bars, Shaquanda Cotton walked out of a central Texas youth prison Saturday pretty much like many 15-year-olds would: eager for a hug from her mom...
Freed teen: ‘I feel like I have a 2nd chance’
After spending a year behind bars, Shaquanda Cotton walked out of a central Texas youth prison Saturday pretty much like many 15-year-olds would: eager for a hug from her mom...
Girl in prison for shove gets released early
Shaquanda Cotton, the black teenager in the small east Texas town of Paris whose prison sentence of up to 7 years for shoving a teacher's aide sparked nationwide controversy, was...
Juvenile justice on trial
The sentences of many of the 4,700 delinquent youths being held in Texas juvenile prisons might have been arbitrarily and unfairly extended by prison authorities and thousands of youths could...
Texas reviews scandal-plagued juvenile prison system
The sentences of many of the 4,700 delinquent youths now being held in Texas' juvenile prisons might have been arbitrarily and unfairly extended by prison authorities and thousands could be...
America’s hidden war dead
Like thousands of other Americans who have served in Iraq since the U.S. intervention began four years ago, Walter Zbryski came home in a coffin. Only his coffin was not...