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2/22/2012
A Deer Park police officer has been suspended after he was caught in stealing from the department's refrigerator, according to the police chief.
When things began disappearing from the fridge at the Deer Park police station, the complaints ended up on Chief Gregory Grigg's desk.
"I know there were officers that had items stolen over a long period of time. I heard about it probably last May," said Grigg.
http://www.click2houston.com/news/Police-officer-accused-of-stealing-out-of-department-s-refrigerator/-/1735978/8829550/-/sqyqmv/-/
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2/22/2012
Taylor Patrick still has tremors, flashbacks and nightmares. In those dreams, he is kicked and punched by his fellow students.
In a lawsuit filed last week in district court against the Leander school district, Patrick said he was bullied for years in middle and high school. The 20-year-old has Asperger's syndrome, a developmental disorder that affects his ability to socialize or communicate effectively. Because of his disability, he was frequently teased, said his mother, Leah Patrick.
The Patricks are suing the district for not protecting Taylor Patrick for what they said was years of bullying, beginning in middle school.
District officials said they are barred by privacy laws from discussing specific student discipline matters but said they immediately investigate and address reports of bullying.
Campus officials note that Leander High has since earned a No Place for Hate distinction, an Anti-Defamation League initiative that helps create inclusive school environments.
http://www.statesman.com/news/education/mom-of-former-special-education-student-sues-leander-2191340.html
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2/22/2012
The Obama administration will propose lowering the top income-tax rate for corporations to 28% from 35% but would raise overall tax revenue by eliminating dozens of popular deductions in an effort to restructure the corporate tax code.
The proposal, which will be announced Wednesday, would lower the "effective" tax rate on manufacturers to "no more than 25%," according to a senior administration official, down from the current average rate of about 32%. It raises taxes on oil and gas companies that would lose many large deductions and subsidies.
The plan would require U.S. companies operating overseas to pay—for the first ...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204131004577237771704513042.html
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2/22/2012
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have trained local officers around the country to act as their agencies' immigration officers. Working either in jails or in the field, the officers can check the immigration status of suspects and place immigration holds on them.
The program, known as 287(g), reached its peak under President George W. Bush, when 60 local agencies signed contracts with ICE to implement it. But that trend slowed significantly under President Obama— only eight agencies have signed up since he took office, and none has done so since August 2010.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-02-17/immigration-enforcement-program/53134284/1
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2/22/2012
Harold C. Simmons, a billionaire corporate raider from Texas, pulled out his checkbook on Jan. 13 and gave $100,000 to a super PAC backing Mitt Romney, then donated $5 million more to another PAC stacked with Romney confidants.
But 11 days later, Simmons doled out $500,000 to a super PAC devoted to Newt Gingrich, who had just trounced Romney in the Republican presidential primary in South Carolina.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/super-pac-donors-revealed-who-are-the-power-players-in-the-gop-primary/2012/02/21/gIQAPU3BSR_story.html
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2/22/2012
A visit by international nuclear inspectors to Iran ended in failure Tuesday. Tehran not only blocked access to a site the inspectors believe could have been used for tests on how to produce a nuclear weapon, they reported, but it also refused to agree to a process for resolving questions about other “possible military dimensions” to its nuclear program.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/world/middleeast/iran-says-un-weapons-inspectors-wont-visit-nuclear-sites.html
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2/22/2012
Abigail Noel Fisher was a Sugar Land teenager when she first sued the University of Texas at Austin, claiming the school denied her admission because she is white.
Four years later, Fisher is a senior at Louisiana State University and her lawsuit is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it has the potential to end race-based admissions policies at colleges nationwide.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear the case during its term that starts in October. It will bring the issue of affirmative action in higher education to the high court's docket for the first time since its 2003 ruling upholding the use of race in admissions.
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/High-court-to-hear-UT-affirmative-action-case-3347406.php
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2/21/2012
Republicans haven’t quite thrown away what they see as a winnable presidential election, at least not yet. But they’re trying their best.
In GOP circles, there is more than a whiff of panic in the air. Unemployment is still painfully high, Americans remain dissatisfied with the country’s direction, even the most favorable polls show President Obama’s approval at barely 50 percent — and yet there is a sense that the Republicans’ odds of winning back the White House grow longer day by day.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rick-santorum-could-take-republicans-down-with-him/2012/02/20/gIQA8Af8PR_story.html
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2/21/2012
But on the ground level, Democrats’ newfound optimism is heavily salted with caution. The confidence is tempered by the knowledge that the political environment can change in an instant, especially when the resurgence owes to a fragile economic recovery — and the fact that three wave elections in a row haven’t sated the pitchfork politics of a nation that hates its capital.
“I’m not putting a lot of stock in snapshots,” said Sen. Bob Casey, a first-term Democrat who is on the ballot this year in Pennsylvania. “I think any incumbent’s going to have a challenge this year. It’s still a challenging environment. I know some data shows that things have improved, but I know that a couple of months ago it was otherwise.”
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), whose home state is a perennial political battleground, says Democrats should keep their heads down and work on the things they can control.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73042.html#ixzz1n1c8WnVM
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2/21/2012
DNA testing has helped to exonerate wrongfully convicted prisoners. Now, it’s helping to release men from having to pay child support for children they don’t believe are theirs. But there is a deadline looming to file.
Trey Andrews, from Wylie, knows all about it. He’s one of the first to be exonerated.
Andrews is a hyperbaric oxygen therapy technician. He helps people heal their wounds.
Last May, he told us about the sore spot in his own life, $450 a month child support payments.
“For a child I don’t ever get to see and haven’t seen for about 10 years that I’m 95 percent sure is not even my child,” Andrews said.
Andrews, who was 18 when he and the woman met, said the child was born when he was in a military boot camp. The couple didn’t stay together long, and she took the child to another state. But he still had to pay child support.
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/02/20/dna-test-deadline-nears-for-texas-dads/
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