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Time.com: Lawmaker: Probe Texas Shooting

U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has called for a congressional inquiry into the state's most populous county, saying recent events show that its legal system "has been tarnished."

Nabbed killer back in Texas

A Texas death row inmate who escaped last week from a Houston jail and was taken into custody Sunday night outside a liquor store in Shreveport, Louisiana, is back in Texas, a court official told CNN late Monday.

Officials take blame for killer's escape

Officials at a Houston jail took responsibility Friday for the escape of a convicted murderer who had recently been sentenced to die, a sheriff's department spokesman said Friday.

Fortune: A number that says it all, the great pulchritude plot, the hammering of Carl Icahn, and other matters. ONLY IN AMERICA (Cont'd)

SAN SABA, TEXAS -- Were it not for a stream of state officials taking tours, the San Saba County Detention Center would be a quiet place these days. Three months after the finishing touches were pu...

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