Prolonged Redistricting Fight Keeps Texas In Limbo
AP Reporting
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Texas state Rep. Aaron Pena is personally experiencing the frenetic pace of his state's once-a-decade fight over political boundaries.
The former Democrat had bolted for the GOP when his district was redrawn solidly blue, causing him to opt against running for re-election. Then he got new hope from the U.S. Supreme Court that it might go red again.
Amid all the confusion, a deadline of Monday looms for some kind of redistricting compromise. The state and a coalition of minority groups must work out temporary maps by then or see the April 3 Texas primaries pushed possibly into May or even later.
The redistricting clash in Texas has been driven by new census numbers showing a burgeoning Hispanic population. The stakes are unusually high because it's adding four congressional seats.
A bitter Republican fight for a Texas Senate seat has taken a new legal turn with Sen. Jeff Wentworth filing a libel lawsuit against opponent Elizabeth Ames Jones.
A suburban Houston man has pleaded guilty to possessing and conspiring to produce child pornography after sexually explicit photos of a child staying in his home were found on his home computer.
A jury has found a former Houston police officer not guilty of charges that he participated in the videotaped beating of a 15-year-old burglary suspect in 2010.
A prosecutor has told jurors that a former Houston police officer accused in the videotaped beating of a 15-year-old burglary suspect did not act with the honor expected of someone in his position.
A Texas death row inmate facing execution in three weeks for the slaying of a Dallas woman at her apartment more than 20 years ago has lost an appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court.
A judge has ruled against three newspapers and found that the Texas Department of Public Safety doesn't have to release travel records of Gov. Rick Perry's security detail.
A university report says a South Texas oil and gas bonanza supported nearly 48,000 jobs last year while creating overnight boom towns cashing in on a $25 billion economic windfall.
Deputies say a woman accused of snatching a 9-year-old Houston-area boy allegedly had an affair with his father and was upset that the relationship ended.
An attorney says a South Texas prosecutor running for U.S. Congress and another lawyer have been arrested in connection with the wide-ranging bribery scheme of a convicted former judge.
The legal stakes have been raised in the ongoing divorce between Deion Sanders and his estranged wife with a new criminal charge against the Pro Football Hall of Famer.
Some 1,119 school districts across Texas will delay for a year a requirement that the results of the STAAR test count toward ninth graders' final grades.
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