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2013 5/14/2013 Billie Sol Estes, convicted Texas swindler, died at his home in Granbury, Texas. He had created a $150 million empire of real and illusory farming enterprises. In 1963 he was convicted on federal charges and served 6 years of a 15 year sentence. In 1979 he was convicted of tax fraud and served 4 more years.
2013 5/23/2013 In Texas local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America voted to open their ranks to openly gay boys for the first time in 103 years. However, they retained a ban on gay adults serving as leaders.
2013 6/7/2013 In Texas Shannon Guess Richardson, a pregnant Texas actress, was arrested and charged with orchestrating a ricin letter scheme. She had told FBI agents that her husband had sent ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. On Dec 10 she pleaded guilty in a deal to cap her prison time at 18 years. On July 16, 2014, Richardson was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
2013 6/13/2013 Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed a law protecting Christmas and other holiday celebrations in state public schools from legal challenges.
2013 6/23/2013 In Texas more than 800 women's rights protesters crowded into the Austin Capitol to watch Democrats try a series of parliamentary maneuvers to stop the Republican majority from passing some of the toughest abortion restrictions in the country.
2013 6/24/2013 Texas Republicans used their majority to cut short debate and give preliminary approval early today to some of the toughest abortion restrictions in the country as time was running out on the Texas Legislature's special session.
2013 6/25/2013 Texas state Senator Wendy Davis staged an 11-hour filibuster to prevent passage of a law that would limit women's access to abortion. A raucous crowd of shouting demonstrators effectively took over the state Capitol and blocked the bill that abortion rights groups warned would close most abortion clinics in the state.
2013 7/12/2013 The Texas Senate passed sweeping abortion restrictions, sending them to Gov. Rick Perry to sign.
2013 8/22/2013 The U.S. Justice Dept. said it will sue Texas over the state's voter ID law and seek to intervene in a lawsuit over the state's redistricting laws.
2013 8/23/2013 In Texas a jury of military officers convicted Major Nidal Hasan for his deadly November 5, 2009, shooting rampage at Fort Hood. On August 28 Hasan was sentenced to death.
2013 9/5/2013 Leaders of San Antonio, Texas, approved anti-bias protections for gay and transgender residents, despite the disapproval of top Texas Republicans and religious conservatives.
2013 10/28/2013 A U.S. federal judge determined that new Texas abortion restrictions place an unconstitutional burden on women seeking to end a pregnancy, a ruling that keeps open dozens of abortion clinics across the state while Texas officials appeal.
2013 10/31/2013 A U.S. federal appeals court ruled that most of Texas' tough new abortion restrictions can take effect immediately.
2013 12/28/2013 Harold Simmons, Dallas billionaire and major GOP political donor, died at 82.. He had made his fortune in buying drugstores and as an investor in publicly traded companies.
2013 12/30/2013 The U.S. FAA selected six states (Alaska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Texas and Virginia) to test how drones can be more widely used in U.S. airspace. 24 states had competed for the selection.
2014 1/22/2014 TransCanada began delivering oil from Cushing, Oklahoma, to customers in Nederland, Texas, through the southern portion of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
2014 3/22/2014 In Texas a barge began leaking oil into the Houston Ship Channel after colliding with a bulk carrier near Texas City at the mouth of Galveston Bay.