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2014 3/24/2014 Major Texas shipping channels that deliver crude oil for more than one-tenth of the nation's refining capacity were shut down for a third day, as the cleanup from a spill threatened to last through the week.
2014 3/25/2014 The U.S. Coast Guard partially reopened the Houston Ship Channel following the March 22 collision between an oil barge and a bulk carrier near Texas City, where 170,000 gallons of tar-like coal were spilled.
2014 8/14/2014 Texas Gov. Rick Perry deployed some 1,000 National Guard troops to the Texas border with Mexico.
2014 8/15/2014 Texas Governor Rick Perry, a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, was indicted over allegations he abused his power, prompting calls for him to resign. A state grand jury in Austin indicted Perry on two felony charges -- abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant -- for his alleged threat to veto $7.5 million in state funding to an anti-corruption unit run by Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, a democrat.
2014 9/30/2014 The first case of the deadly Ebola virus was diagnosed in the United States after Thomas Eric Duncan, who flew from Liberia to Texas, tested positive for the disease. Duncan died on Oct 8.
2014 10/11/2014 A health worker in Texas at the hospital treating the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States tested positive for the deadly virus, raising fresh worries about the spread of the disease beyond West Africa to America.
2014 10/14/2014 In Texas a federal appeals court temporarily reinstated the state's voter ID law.
2014 10/14/2014 The U.S. Supreme Court blocked Texas from enforcing key parts of a 2013 law that would close all but eight of the state's abortion clinics.
2014 10/18/2014 A divided Supreme Court let stand a new Texas voter identification law.
2014 11/4/2014 Texas voters approved a ban on hydraulic fracturing in the town of Denton, making it the first city in the Lone Star State to outlaw the oil and gas extraction technique behind the U.S. energy boom. Texas voters also agreed to steer $1.7 billion of oil and gas production taxes toward the state's highway fund.
2014 11/28/2014 In Texas Larry McQuilliams attempted to set the Mexican Consulate in Austin ablaze and fired more than 100 rounds at downtown buildings before he was fatally shot by police.
2014 12/1/2014 Mexico's gas market plugged into the rest of North America for the first time, as gas began to flow from Texas to Los Ramones along stage one of the Los Ramones pipeline.
2015 1/15/2015 Greg Abbott, born 1957, former Texas Attorney General, was sworn in as the 48th governor of Texas. Abbott was wheelchair-bound and became a paraplegic when an oak tree fell on him while he was running following a storm in 1984.
2015 2/12/2015 The U.S. multi-state $564 million Powerball lottery was won by ticket holders in North Carolina, Texas and Puerto Rico.
2015 2/16/2015 A judge in Texas granted a temporary injunction on an Obama order that would have protected about four million undocumented foreigners from deportation, and was due to come into effect on Feb 18.
2015 4/21/2015 The U.S.Center for Disease Control (CDC) said they are now aware of ten cases of listeria linked to ice cream and other products produced by Blue Bell Creameries of Texas since 2010. Blue Bell has recalled all of its products.
2015 4/30/2015 Blue Origin, a private space company founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, launched an unmanned spaceship. Its New Shepard capsule reached 58 miles and landed in the west Texas desert.
2015 5/17/2015 In Texas a shootout among rival motorcycle gangs at a popular restaurant in Waco left 9 bikers dead and 18 injured. At least five rival gangs gathered at Twin Peaks restaurant for a meeting that focused on turf and recruitment. The next day 177 gang members were arrested and more than 150 were eventually charged.