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Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys
After lengthy and wrenching debate, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have voted to open their ranks to openly gay boys for the first time, but heated reactions from the left and right made clear that the BSA's controversies are far from over. The Scouts' longstanding ban on ...
Texas officer on leave after cat shot with arrow
A South Texas police officer has been put on administrative leave after being charged with shooting an arrow into a neighbor's cat. Police in Boerne (BER'-nee) say Officer Lance Deleon was not on duty when the cat named Bobby was wounded. Police Chief Jim Kohler says the cat was shot ...
Suspect in Port Allen slaying arrested in Texas
West Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies say an Addis man accused of fatally shooting a 36-year-old Plaquemine man during an alleged drug deal was arrested Wednesday in Texas. Col. Richie Johnson tells The Advocate (http://bit.ly/18nhRUE ) the U.S. Marshals Service arrested 19-year-old Roosevelt D. Jones in Garland, Texas, and booked ...
Summer travel forecast: Better, but no blowout
The forecast for summer travel, 2013: Partly sunny. Airlines, hotels and campgrounds are commanding higher rates and seeing more customers than a few summers ago, and luxury hotels are selling out. Local businessmen and state officials are optimistic. But for a travel industry still stinging from the Great Recession, the ...
Jury to receive Villalobos bribery case
A South Texas jury is to begin deliberations in the bribery trial of a former South Texas district attorney charged with helping a crooked judge. Closing arguments are set for Friday in federal court in Brownsville in the trial of former Cameron County District Attorney Armando Villalobos (vee-yah-LOH'-bohs). The defense ...
Cowboys DT charged in deadly wreck due in court
Prosecutors will seek to revoke the bond of a Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle awaiting trial on an intoxicated manslaughter charge. A court hearing is scheduled for Friday morning for Josh Brent. He's charged in the Dec. 8 crash that killed Jerry Brown Jr., a practice squad player who was a ...
Colonial member Palmer has 1st-round lead with 62
Ryan Palmer has a definite home-course advantage at the Colonial. Palmer and his longtime caddie James Edmondson are both full-fledged members of the club, and play there quite often. Edmondson is even the reigning Colonial club champion, having won his third such title just last year. Making good use of ...
Hurricane center: Beware of the storm surge
During a hurricane, the storm surge poses the greatest threat to life and land, yet many people don't even know what it means. Simply put, storm surge is the abnormal rise of sea water. Predicting it is far more complicated and explaining it is tricky, too, as forecasters at the ...
Jose Canseco denies sexual assault allegation
Former baseball slugger Jose Canseco denied a woman's claim that he sexually assaulted her, calling the allegations in Nevada "laughable" before playing in an independent league game in Texas on Thursday. The 48-year-old former rookie of the year with the Oakland A's said he was prepared to take a polygraph ...
Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys
The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders — a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and lead to mass defections of members and donors. Of the roughly 1,400 voting members of the BSA's National Council ...
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