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2010 4/24/2010 The Texas Rangers filed for bankruptcy. Hicks Sports Group, the holding company that owned the Rangers, stopped paying interest on its $525 million of debt last year.
2010 5/25/2010 The U.S. EPA barred Texas from issuing an operating permit to a refinery on Corpus Christi, and said it would do the same to many other cases in which it believes the state is violating the Clean Air Act.
2010 6/23/2010 The Obama administration announced that it will station an unmanned aerial drone in Texas as part of its increased surveillance of criminal activity along the Mexican border.
2010 8/16/2010 The US Justice Department dropped its six year investigation of former U.S. House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex) and his interactions with lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
2010 9/8/2010 Tropical Storm Hermine swept north through Texas and into Oklahoma, swamping city neighborhoods and killing 6 people, 5 in Texas and 1 in Oklahoma.
2010 9/24/2010 The Texas State Board of Education adopted a resolution that seeks to curtail references to Islam in Texas textbooks, as social conservative board members warned of what they describe as a "creeping Middle Eastern influence" in the nation's publishing industry.
2010 10/10/2010 Norwegian oil firm Statoil is further expanding its shale gas operations in the United States, saying it has created a joint venture with Canada's Talisman to acquire acreage on the Eagle Ford prospect in Texas for $1.325 billion.
2010 11/1/2010 The SF Giants won the Baseball World Series beating the Texas Rangers 3-1 in Game 5 in San Francisco.
2011 1/10/2011 In Texas Tom DeLay, former U.S. House Majority Leader, was sentenced to 3 years in prison for a scheme to influence elections.
2011 2/6/2011 In Dallas, Texas, Wisconsin's Green Bay packers won Super Bowl XLV 31-25 over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
2011 2/17/2011 U.S. Federal authorities said police have arrested nine people and seized 300 firearms, including assault rifles, in a raid targeting an arms ring that allegedly sold weapons to Mexican drug traffickers.
2011 3/9/2011 The five-day SXSW Interactive festival opened in Austin, Texas.
2011 5/18/2011 Texas officials said the worst state drought in decades has cost $1.5 billion in agricultural losses.
2011 6/12/2011 In the National Basketball Association finals, the underdog Dallas Mavericks defeated the Miami Heat four games to two, to capture their first ever NBA championship.
2011 8/4/2011 A Texas jury convicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs (55) of child sexual assault, in a case stemming from two young followers he took as "brides".
2011 8/7/2011 Texas billionaire and philanthropist Charles Wyly. age 77, died after a car accident in western Colorado. His family has donated millions of dollars to Republican causes and Dallas arts projects.
2011 8/11/2011 Texas Gov. Rick Perry confirmed that he is running for the U.S. presidency as eight other Republican candidates debated one another in Iowa.
2011 8/17/2011 Texas Gov. and GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry told New Hampshire voters that he does not believe in man-made global warming, calling it a "scientific theory" that has not been proven.
2011 8/30/2011 A U.S. federal judge temporarily blocked key provisions of a Texas abortion law that would require women seeking the procedure to view a sonogram and listen to the heartbeat of their fetus. On Jan 10, 2012, a federal appeals court restored the law.
2011 9/6/2011 In central Texas, calmer winds helped firefighters battling a wildfire that forced thousands of residents to evacuate to shelters; four deaths were linked to the fire. Some 122 wildfires continued to overwhelm the state. By September 12 at least 1554 homes were incinerated in and around the city of Bastrop.