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For Tom DeLay, It Was About Power, Not Money
For Tom DeLay, It Was About Power, Not Money
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Nov 26, 2010 1:41 PM CST

For Tom DeLay, It Was About Power, Not Money

Analysis: In that, he's unusual among politicians with rap sheets

(Newser) - Tom DeLay is unusual among politicians with legal trouble because he wasn't going after money—just power. Texas Tribune managing editor Ross Ramsey lays it out an analysis for the New York Times : In step one, DeLay's creative campaign donations helped elect Republican legislators to the Texas House, giving the...

DeLay Verdict May Change Campaign Finance

Prosecutors expected to target corporate fundraising

(Newser) - Prosecutors—and politicians—around the country are paying close attention to Tom DeLay's conviction on money laundering charges . The former House majority leader was found guilty of funneling corporate cash to fellow Republicans, thereby violating Texas laws that ban companies from contributing to candidates' campaigns, and legal experts expect the...

Tom DeLay Guilty of Money Laundering

Former House majority leader faces life in prison

(Newser) - Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay—once one of the most powerful and feared Republicans in Congress—was convicted today on charges he illegally funneled corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002. Jurors deliberated for 19 hours before returning guilty verdicts against DeLay on charges of money laundering and conspiracy...

Cops: Priest Tried to Hire Hit Man to Kill Teen Accuser

Neighbor offered $5K to kill boy, say investigators

(Newser) - What's more damaging to the Catholic Church's image than a priest accused of sexual assault? How about a priest accused of sexual assault who allegedly tries to hire a hit man to kill his teen accuser? Investigators say 52-year-old Texas priest John Fiala offered a neighbor $5,000 to kill...

DNA Test Suggests Texas Executed Wrong Man

Then-Gov. George Bush's staff failed to tell him Jones was asking for test

(Newser) - A DNA test has cast doubt on the guilt of a man who was executed in Texas 10 years ago—an execution that went forward after then-Gov. George W. Bush's staff failed to tell him the condemned man was asking for genetic analysis of a single strand of hair. That...

Texas Boater Shot Dead by Mexican Pirates

Thieves prowling border lake claim first US fatality

(Newser) - Police are hunting for the body of a boater on a Texas lake who was shot dead by Mexican pirates. Tiffany Hartley, 29, said her husband, David, was shot in the back of the head as the couple fled the pirates on their Jet Skis on Lake Falcon, which straddles...

Texas Board: Textbooks Have Pro-Islam Bias

Education officials want publishers to fix 'anti-Christian' tone

(Newser) - The Texas Board of Education issued a warning to textbook publishers today: It wants future social studies books to fix what it sees as a pro-Islam and anti-Christian bias, reports the Dallas Morning News . "What we're trying to do is prohibit and send a clear message to the publishers...

Skateboarder Saves Koran From Torching
 Skateboarder 
 Saves Koran 
 From Torching 
Dude, You Have No Koran
Sep 14, 2010 6:34 AM CDT

Skateboarder Saves Koran From Torching

'I snuck up behind him and snatched it'

(Newser) - Sometimes all it takes to stop a debate over torching a Koran is a dude on a skateboard. Texas boarder Jacob Isom has become the latest YouTube folk hero after he rolled up and snatched a kerosene-soaked Koran before it could be set aflame in a local park by the...

Polygamist Sect Leader Jeffs Battles Extradition

Warren Jeffs refuses to sign waiver sending him to Texas

(Newser) - Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs refused to sign a waiver allowing his extradition to Texas at a brief court hearing in Utah yesterday. Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, faces bigamy and sexual assault charges in Texas for his alleged involvement with underage girls...

Hermine Lashes Texas, Mexico
 Hermine Lashes Texas, Mexico 
Sep 7, 2010 5:35 AM CDT

Hermine Lashes Texas, Mexico

Flood warnings issued as tropical storm moves north

(Newser) - Flood warnings have been issued as Tropical Storm Hermine today made landfall in northeastern Mexico, where heavy rains triggered landslides that cut off small communities and destroyed dozens of dwellings, the AP reports. The storm crossed the Rio Grande and roared into the border region, reeling from Hurricane Alex earlier...

Texas Court: Gay Couples Can't Divorce

Legally marry elsewhere? No divorce here

(Newser) - First it accidentally banned straight marriage: Now Texas has officially banned gay divorce. A state appeals court ruled yesterday that gay couples who legally marry in other states cannot get a divorce in Texas. The ruling follows a judge's October 2009 decision to allow two Dallas men who were married...

Texas Man Planned Police HQ Bloodbath

Attacker ignited trailer full of explosives, opened fire yesterday

(Newser) - Police are trying to figure out the motive behind a Dallas-area man's massive assault on a police station with guns and explosives yesterday. Patrick Gray Sharp, 29, set fire to a trailer full of explosives outside McKinney police headquarters and then fired more than 100 rounds at the building. The...

Don't Worry: Texas Will Get Warren Jeffs

State has a much stronger track record convicting polygamists

(Newser) - The Utah Supreme Court stunned prosecutors when it tossed out the only successful conviction against Warren Jeffs, the leader of the polygamist FLDS church. The ruling will make it extremely difficult to retry Jeffs in Utah, where the laws already make the prosecution of child-marriage cases difficult, Time reports. But...

Texas Beautician Busted in Spy Probe

She's accused of smuggling high-tech scopes

(Newser) - A beautician who splits her time between Russia and Texas has emerged as America's latest sexy spy since she was busted for trying to smuggle high-tech night vision scopes to Moscow, according to the FBI. Federal officials acting on a tip confiscated the scopes from Anna Fermanova, 24, at New...

Warren Jeffs Gets New Trial in Rape Case

Jury in polygamist leader's trial got bad instructions: court

(Newser) - Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, who has been serving 10 years to life for being an accessory to rape , was granted a new trial today, the Deseret News reports. The Utah Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the jury instructions delivered during Jeffs' 2007 trial were faulty. "We regret the...

Mom Strangles Autistic Kids
 Mom Strangles Autistic Kids 
Jul 23, 2010 1:21 AM CDT

Mom Strangles Autistic Kids

I want 'normal' children, she tells dispatcher

(Newser) - A Texas mom called a 911 operator to confess that she killed her two young autistic children because she wanted "normal" kids. "I don't want my kids to be like that," said Saiqa Akhter, 30, who has been charged with capital murder in the killing of her...

Transgendered Widow Battles for Benefits

Angry parents say son was upset he was 'tricked'

(Newser) - Nikki Araguz lost her firefighter husband, Thomas, in the line of duty two weeks ago, and now she could lose his benefits—because she was born male. The Texas widow faces a lawsuit from her husband's parents, who charge that her transgender status makes her ineligible to receive benefits, and...

Man Gets 15 Years for Assault With HIV

 Man Gets 15 Years for 
 Assault With HIV 
The weapon: his penis
Jul 16, 2010 9:00 AM CDT

Man Gets 15 Years for Assault With HIV

Megachurch elder had unprotected sex without telling partner he was positive

(Newser) - A Texas man charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon—his penis—pleaded guilty yesterday, unexpectedly ending his trial. Nathaniel Tumbwe, who has said he is an African prince and a doctor, had unprotected sex with a fellow elder at a Dallas megachurch in 2008, knowing he was HIV...

Texas Mayor Kills Daughter, Self

Pathologist rules Jayne Peters responsible for murder-suicide

(Newser) - The mayor of a Dallas suburb killed her teen daughter before turning the gun on herself, according to the county medical examiner. Police found the bodies of Jayne Peters, 55, and her 19-year-old daughter Corrine at their home after being sent to investigate the Coppell mayor's absence from a council...

Man Charged With Beating Son, 6, to Death for Not Sleeping

Boy suffered seizure after 8 hours of abuse

(Newser) - Alex Duncan forced his 6-year-old son to kneel with his arms raised for 8 hours, "chest boxing" him repeatedly whenever he slipped, until the boy suffered a seizure and died, say Houston police who've charged Duncan with murder. Tekerrious "TK" Jackson's death—witnessed by the father's girlfriend, who...

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