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Hundreds Hurt, Dozens Feared Dead After Fertilizer Plant Explosion--West, Texas
Society & Culture  (tags: americans, children, death, Explosion, Fire, Fertilizer factory, West, Texas )

Kit
- 30 days ago - theatlanticwire.com
A raging fire, followed by a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in North Texas has devastated a small community. The plant is located in West, Texas, a small town of about 2,800 people, 18 miles north of Waco - 80 miles south of Dallas.
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Women Sue for Humiliating Vaginal Search From State Troopers   video
Society & Culture  (tags: roadside cavity search, women, overzealous police, cigaretts, Texas )

Dandelion
- 122 days ago - youtube.com
Women (in Texas) must submit to cavity search for smoking cigarettes and might have tossed their butts out the window. Littering is one thing, it should not lead up to a full body and cavity search on the side of the road.
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The People's Choice! Only, Not Really -- Jim Hightower
Society & Culture  (tags: celebrity, corruption, culture, dishonesty, government, media, politics, religion, Senate, society, Texas )

Kit
- 281 days ago - truth-out.org
Ted Cruz is America's latest tea party darling, having just pulled off a political contortion in Texas that few would've thought humanly possible: He got to the right of Gov. Rick Perry!
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Protest the Jailing of Texas Honor Student Too Exhausted to Attend Class ACTION
Society & Culture  (tags: diane tran, ethics, human rights, government, Texas )

Nancy
- 351 days ago - forcechange.com
Protest the Jailing of Texas Honors Student Too Exhausted to Attend Class. Diane Tran, a 17-year-old who excels in her honors classes, stepped up to take care of her two siblings by working two jobs after her parents skipped town.
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Occupiers in Conservative Texas City Have Support of Mayor, Some Tea Partiers
Society & Culture  (tags: activists, americans, culture, education, freedoms, goodnews, government, media, politics, rights, society, Texas )

Kit
- 459 days ago - truth-out.org
Although protesters have been driven from their peaceful occupations of almost every location across the nation, including Wall Street, Los Angeles, UC Davis and Oakland, they have managed to hang on at a busy intersection across the street from Texas-->
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How An Anti-Gay Law in El Paso Punishes Gay and Straight Citizens ! PLEASE SIGN PETITION ! !
Society & Culture  (tags: humans, gayrights, LGBT, laws, Texas, protection, rights, environment )

Cher
- 853 days ago - gayrights.change.org
This past election cycle, a group of social conservatives got together to try and make life just that much harder for the LGBT community
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*Action Alet: It's Time to Close Prisons in Texas, **Please Sign Petition**
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, americans, crime, education, freedoms, government, humans, interesting, law, news, police, politics, prisons, rights, society, Texas )

Kit
- 867 days ago - change.org
The state has made great strides in recent years to offer community alternatives to long sentences. But with a budget crisis looming, state prison officials are saying they won't consider closing a single prison.
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ACTION ALERT: Stop Breed Specific Legislation in Texas ! PLEASE SIGN PETITION !
Society & Culture  (tags: texas, stop breed specific legalisation, pit bulls, maglined, unfiairness, dogs welfare )

Simone
- 901 days ago - ipetitions.com
There are no bad dogs, only bad owners. The government should not be allowed to tell us what breed of dog we are allowed to own, and it is not fair to crucify an entire breed because of a few bad incidents, all caused by irresponsible and abusive owners.
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Texas Christian U. and Kappa Sigma Fraternity Investigating Butt-Branding By Frat Brothers
Society & Culture  (tags: society, Texas, university, Frat brothers, abuse, crime, safety, risks, investigation )

Dee
- 1205 days ago - nydailynews.com
Officials at Texas Christian University and Kappa Sigma fraternity are investigating an early January ski trip in which a fraternity member incurred second- and third-degree burns after he was branded on his buttocks.
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Loophole Lets Mentally Ill Texas Juveniles Go Free
Society & Culture  (tags: violence, murder, crime, juvenile system, texas )

Lone
- 1244 days ago - sacbee.com
TYLER, Texas -- A 16-year-old former juvenile detainee is accused of stabbing a high school teacher to death with a butcher knife. Another teen was convicted of killing a roofer during a 30-minute robbery spree.
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A Ranch Fit for a King (of Texas)
Society & Culture  (tags: Kings ranch, Texas, GoodNews, interesting )

Lone
- 1280 days ago - cbsnews.com
If the Old West survives anywhere, it's here, on the sprawling King Ranch in south Texas. At 825,000 acres, it is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
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Phone Number in Texas Polygamy Case Linked to Colorado Woman
Society & Culture  (tags: US, cult, phone call, call-tip, polygamy case, polygamist sect, Texas, Colorado, court, court document )

Summer Lu
- 1850 days ago - abcnews.go.com
A court document says one phone number used to report alleged abuse at a polygamist retreat in Texas had been used previously by a 33-year-old Colorado woman.
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Over 400 Children Taken From Texas Polygamist Ranch
Society & Culture  (tags: US, Texas, children, mormon sect, polygamist, Warren Jeffe, child abuse )

Summer Lu
- 1865 days ago - reuters.com
401 children now removed from a remote ranch in west Texas belonging to a breakaway Mormon sect linked to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs. "An unknown number of men remain on the compound and are not free to leave."
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534 Women, Kids Leave Polygamist Ranch
Society & Culture  (tags: child abuse, child neglect, polygamy, Texas, polygamist ranch )

Nancy
- 1866 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
401 children have been placed in state custody because a judge deemed them in imminent danger of physical abuse...133 women left the Yearning for Zion Ranch of their own volition along with the children...State troopers were holding an unknown number of men
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Man Sodomises Son in Revenge - USA
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, child, family, law, sodomy, rape, texas, usa )

Chrissy
- 1952 days ago - news.com.au
A FATHER in the US sodomised his 18-year-old stepson to avenge the teenager's alleged rape of the man's eight-year-old daughter. Police in Fort Worth, Texas, said the father, 32, caught his stepson assaulting his daughter. A subsequent hospital examinatio
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