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2011 11/1/2011 The U.S. federal government sued Houston-based Allied Home Mortgage Corp., one of the nation's largest privately held mortgage brokers, saying its decade-long fraudulent lending practices cost the government hundreds of millions of dollars and forced thousands of American homeowners to lose their homes.
2011 12/16/2011 It was reported that U.S. presidential candidate and Texas Governor, Rick Perry, age 61, was collecting $7,700 a month in state pension, in addition to his nearly $133,000 annual salary as governor. He indicated that State code permitted the "double dip" practice.
2012 1/19/2012 Texas Gov. Rick Perry ended his unsuccessful presidential campaign, and endorsed Newt Gingrich's candidacy for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
2012 2/27/2012 WikiLeaks said it was publishing a massive trove of leaked emails from the U.S. intelligence analysis firm Stratfor, which shed light on the inner workings of the Texas-based think tank.
2012 3/12/2012 The Obama administration blocked a new law in Texas requiring voters to show photo identification before they can cast a ballot, citing a concern that it could harm Hispanic voters who lacked such documents.
2012 4/13/2012 The Texas Medical Board approved controversial new rules on the use of adult stem cells.
2012 5/10/2012 Carroll Shelby, born in 1923, legendary car designer and champion auto racer, died in Dallas.
2012 6/12/2012 Texas authorities said they arrested seven members of one of Mexico's largest drug cartels and accused them of laundering money in the United States by buying, breeding and racing American racehorses.
2012 6/14/2012 A federal judge sentenced former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford to 110 years in prison for bilking investors out of more than $7 billion over two decades.
2012 7/7/2012 The U.S. Border patrol said agents had opened fire along the Rio Grande border after being pelted by rocks. A Mexican citizen was fatally shot at the Los Tomates-Veterans international bridge in Brownsville, Texas.
2012 8/30/2012 A federal court rejected a Texas law that would require voters to present photo IDs to election officials before being allowed to cast ballots in November.
2012 11/9/2012 In Texas a federal indictment named 34 members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas for crimes, which included murder, kidnapping, arson, gambling and drug trafficking. Dozens of members were arrested.
2012 11/23/2012 Larry Hagman, who created one of American television's most supreme villains as the conniving, amoral oilman J.R. Ewing of the "Dallas" series (1978-1991), died in Dallas.
2012 12/31/2012 A Texas state judge ruled that Texas can cut off funding to Planned Parenthood's family planning programs for poor women if they advocate for abortion rights.
2013 2/27/2013 Pianist Van Cliburn died at his home in Fort Worth, Texas. He won the 1958 Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow, and became an overnight sensation.
2013 4/9/2013 Google announced it has chosen Austin, Texas, as the second location for Google Fiber, an ultra-fast broadband network, after it began first connecting Kansas City last November.
2013 4/17/2013 In Texas a fiery explosion hit the West Fertilizer Co. 12 first responders were killed along with 2 residents in an apartment building. A nursing home resident died during an evacuation in West, about 20 miles north of Waco. Damages to the area were later estimated at $100 million, but he company had only $1 million in liability insurance. In 2016 federal officials said the fire had been intentionally set
2013 4/25/2013 The George W. Bush presidential library, on the edge of the SMU campus, was dedicated in Dallas, Texas.