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2008 1/16/2008 Texas was named the biggest polluter in the U.S., making it the 7th worst in the world, if it were its own nation.
2008 3/4/2008 John McCain clinched the Republican nomination for President. Hillary Clinton won primaries in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island, halting Barack Obama's winning streak. However, Obama won in Vermont, and came away with a large share of delegates, as well.
2008 4/4/2008 Child welfare officials scrambled to find foster homes for dozens of girls removed from a secluded West Texas religious retreat built by polygamist leader, Warren Jeffs.
2008 4/11/2008 Crystle Stewart, age 26, of Missouri City, Texas, was named Miss USA, beating the other beauty queens for the coveted crown in Las Vegas, NV.
2008 9/13/2008 Hurricane Ike ravaged the Texas coast, flooding thousands of homes and businesses, shattering windows in Houston's skyscrapers, knocking out power to millions of Texans, and leaving at least 37 people dead in Texas.
2009 3/12/2009 Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced that he turned down $555 million of federal stimulus funding that would expand the state's unemployment benefits, his reason being that the money would have required the state to keep paying for the expanded benefits after the stimulus money ran out.
2009 3/27/2009 The Texas Board of Education approved a new science curriculum opening the door for teachers and texts to raise doubts about evolution.
2009 8/21/2009 Guaranty Bank became the 2nd-largest US bank to fail this year after the Texas lender was shut down by regulators and most of its operations sold at a loss of billions of dollars for the U.S. government.
2009 9/16/2009 Brazil JBS company announced that Texas-based chicken processor, Pilgrim's Pride, has agreed to be taken over for $800 million. This and a pending acquisition with Bertin, another Brazilian firm, would make JBS the world's largest processor of meat.
2009 9/24/2009 In Texas Hosam Maher Husein Smadi (19) parked what he thought was an explosive laden truck in a parking garage beneath the 60-story Fountain Place office tower in Dallas, but FBI agents had provided Smadi with the truck, and the explosives were not active.
2009 10/5/2009 Don Hill, a former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem, was convicted in a bribery and extortion scheme that prosecutors called the largest in Dallas history.
2009 10/31/2009 The new Bill and Margot Winspear Opera House, designed by Norman Foster, opened in the Dallas Arts District. Across the street the new Dee and Charles Wyly Theater, also opened.
2009 11/5/2009 At Fort Hood, Texas, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan (39) shot 13 people dead. Hasan, a psychiatrist, was among 30 people wounded in the shooting spree and remained hospitalized on a ventilator.
2009 12/12/2009 Houston became the largest U.S. city to elect an openly gay mayor, with voters handing the victory to City Controller Annise Parker.
2010 2/18/2010 In Texas Joe Stack, a software engineer, committed suicide by slamming his single-engine Piper PA-28 into an Austin office building that houses the IRS. Stack felt that the federal government, especially its tax code, had robbed him of his savings and destroyed his career, while allowing corrupt executives to walk away with millions.
2010 2/25/2010 In Texas a copy of the 1939 comic book, Detective Comics No. 27, in which Batman makes his debut, sold at a Dallas auction for more than $1 million, breaking a record set just three days prior by a Superman comic. A copy of the first comic book featuring Superman, a 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1, sold on Feb 22 for $1 million.
2010 4/11/2010 In Texas more than 20,000 people gathered at tailgate parties and other spots to watch fireworks go off one last time over Texas Stadium, before a ton of dynamite lit up the Dallas Cowboys' longtime home and brought it to the ground. The Cowboys played 38 seasons in Texas Stadium, and won five Super Bowls during that time.