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Florida Principal Defends Texas Cop, Loses Job

'I commend him,' said Alberto Iber of 99% minority school

(Newser) - North Miami Senior High School is in need of a new principal after its own defended a white police officer's actions during a Texas pool party melee , the Miami Herald reports. Alberto Iber has been reassigned to "administrative duties" (though the Sun-Sentinel reports he resigned) after writing this...

Lawyer: Texas Cop Was Having an 'Emotional' Day

She says Eric Casebolt now in hiding

(Newser) - Former McKinney, Texas, police officer Eric Casebolt isn't a racist or a psycho, but he had a very stressful shift before he had to deal with teenagers at a pool party, his lawyer says. She says that before he responded to that call, he had dealt with a call...

Court Ruling May Shutter Most Texas Abortion Clinics

After appellate decision, only seven meet new requirements

(Newser) - An appellate court ruling today means that women in rural Texas may have a long drive on their hands if they plan to get an abortion. The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the state's new rules , which essentially require clinics to have hospital-level building codes, reports the...

Texas Cop Resigns After Pool Party Video

Eric Casebolt in McKinney already had been suspended

(Newser) - Officer Eric Casebolt is out of a job. His lawyer tells Fox4News that Casebolt has resigned from the force in McKinney, Texas, after a volatile video emerged of him over the weekend responding to a call from a suburban pool party. In the video, he pins a black teenage girl...

Pool Party Teen: Cop Shoved Me, Pulled My Hair

Activists want Cpl. Eric Casebolt fired

(Newser) - Texas police have named the cop suspended after busting up a party at a community pool in McKinney. Eric Casebolt, who appears to pull a 15-year-old girl to the ground before pointing his gun at two teens in a YouTube video, has been put on administrative leave, reports the Dallas ...

Texas Cop Suspended After Pool Party Melee

Cop grabbed teenage girl and slammed her to the ground

(Newser) - An explosive video of Texas cops chasing, handcuffing, and cursing at black teenagers has led to one officer being placed on administrative leave, the Dallas Morning News reports. According to police in McKinney, Texas , it began with calls Friday night about teens using a community pool without permission and "...

Parents Stunned by Middle School 'Ghetto Awards'

Texas teacher apparently gave them to students

(Newser) - Coming home with an award from school is one thing—bringing home a "ghetto classroom award" signed by your teacher is quite another. "Tears just started falling out of my eyes," Texas resident Debra Jose tells CBS DFW of her grandson's dubious honor. "I was...

Amid Doubts, Texas Executes Oldest Death-Row Inmate

Lester Bower fought sentence for 31 years

(Newser) - More than 30 years after Lester Bower was sentenced to die for a quadruple murder, Texas has finally carried out the sentence. The 67-year-old, the oldest prisoner on the state's death row, was executed hours after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal, ABC News reports. Prosecutors said that in...

Man Hit With Reburial Fee After Floods Unearth Wife's Coffin

Richard Lee files suit against funeral home after wife's casket floats out of vault

(Newser) - Richard Lee got a disturbing call last week that was quickly followed by even more disturbing news: The coffin of his wife, Carolyn, buried in 2007, had floated to the surface after intense flooding in Houston , the Houston Chronicle reports—and to rebury her, Lee would have to pay a...

Texas Poised to Allow Open Carry of Handguns

Party-line vote heads for governor, who says he'll sign it

(Newser) - Texas lawmakers on Friday approved carrying handguns openly on the streets of the nation's second most-populous state, sending the bill to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who immediately promised to sign it and reverse a ban dating to the post-Civil War era. Gun owners would still have to get a...

Anheuser-Busch Stops Making Beer to Help Texas

One of its 12 breweries is canning water, not booze

(Newser) - An Anheuser-Busch brewery in Georgia began filling its cans with something other than beer late Wednesday night to help those affected by flooding in Texas and Oklahoma. "Right now our production line is running emergency drinking water," the Cartersville brewery manager told NBC News . The brewery—one of...

Among the 11 Missing in Texas: Family Torn From Dad

'We have accepted' Laura McComb, 2 kids 'are gone,' says sister

(Newser) - Authorities say a third body has been pulled from the Blanco River that crested three times above flood stage during relentless storms in Central Texas. That brings to 13 the number of people killed by the holiday weekend storms in Texas; another four were killed in Oklahoma, reports the AP...

13 Still Missing in Texas Floods

Houston gets another foot of rain

(Newser) - Floodwaters deepened across much of Texas as storms dumped almost another foot of rain on the Houston area, stranding hundreds of motorists in the nation's fourth-largest city. Meanwhile, the search went on for at least 13 missing people, including a group that disappeared after a vacation home was swept...

Texas Drowning in 'Relentless Wall of Water'

Flooding toll hits 8, including homecoming queen on way home from prom

(Newser) - Among the latest casualties as Texas endures stunning amounts of rain: Homecoming queen Alyssa Ramirez, who spent Saturday night dancing at her prom. While driving home in Devine, Texas, on Sunday, Ramirez's car stalled in high water and the cheerleader and star athlete was swept away by flood waters...

Firefighter Saves Kids at Party, Is Swept to His Death

Oklahoma, Texas battered by weather yesterday

(Newser) - Record rainfall wreaked havoc across a swath of the Plains and Midwest yesterday, causing flash floods in normally dry riverbeds, spawning tornadoes, and forcing at least 2,000 people in Texas from their homes. A firefighter in Oklahoma was swept to his death: Fox23 reports Claremore Fire Capt. Jason Farley,...

Floods Roll Through Texas, Oklahoma

Heavy rains also force evacuations

(Newser) - Flooding in Texas and Oklahoma has led to numerous evacuations and rescues and the death of a firefighter. The heavy rains were pushing into eastern Texas and eastern Oklahoma this morning. Rogers County Emergency Management spokesman Thomas Hudson says a firefighter in the northeast Oklahoma town of Claremore died early...

After Kids Succeed, Texas Teacher Eats Worms

Teachers step up to the plate, do 'gross but awesome' things

(Newser) - "It kind of made me want to throw up. But it was pretty awesome." That from a 10-year-old student at Clements/Parsons Elementary School who was marveling over what her teachers in Copperas Cove, Texas, did last Thursday. Namely, they fulfilled a bet: If their fourth- and fifth-grade students...

US Civil War Didn&#39;t End at Appomattox
 US Civil War Didn't 
 End at Appomattox 
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May 16, 2015 3:04 PM CDT

US Civil War Didn't End at Appomattox

The Battle of Palmito Ranch really brought it to an end

(Newser) - It's common knowledge that the four bloody, thunderous years of the American Civil War came to a solemn end when Southern Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox—but it's not true. The final land battle of the war wasn't fought...

Storm Wrecks Texas Town, Hurts 26

Severe weather stretches across state

(Newser) - About two dozen people were injured and some homes were destroyed after a severe storm struck the small town of Van in northeast Texas, an emergency management official says. The storm, which the National Weather Service said likely produced a tornado, hit the east side of Van Zandt County and...

Texas High School Reports Chlamydia Outbreak
Chlamydia Outbreak
Stuns Texas High School
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May 9, 2015 7:30 AM CDT

Chlamydia Outbreak Stuns Texas High School

School's only sex-ed offers lessons in abstinence

(Newser) - School officials have declared an outbreak of chlamydia at a high school in Crane County, Texas, where the only sex-ed course is legally required to emphasize abstinence. School district officials sent out letters to parents last week warning that 20 of Crane High School's 300 students have come down...

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