Richards lying in state at Texas Capitol
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Former President Clinton tearfully escorted a flag-draped casket Saturday carrying former Gov. Ann Richards into the state Capitol, where she will spend the next two days lying in state before her funeral and burial.
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A former state lawmaker made drunken boasts about his legislative maneuvers on behalf of an oil field services company but did not swap official acts for bribes, his attorney said in closing arguments Monday.
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AUSTIN, May 26 -- Hours after lawmakers who tried to overtake the speaker's podium seeking to oust him were physically restrained, House Speaker Tom Craddick (R) charged through a rowdy floor session Saturday without ceding his coveted post.
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Fashion photographer Richard Avedon lay in critical but stable condition Thursday after suffering a brain hemorrhage last weekend while on assignment in Texas, a spokeswoman for The New Yorker magazine said.
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AUSTIN, Texas  - Friends and family buried Ann   Richards in a private ceremony on Monday and then joined in a   memorial service where New York Sen. Hillary Clinton led   mourners praising the life and recalling the humor of the   former Texas governor.
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Connecticut governor, M. Jodi Rell, is recovering from a mastectomy and reconstructive surgery at Danbury Hospital. She was diagnosed with breast cancer after having had a routine mammogram last week.
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How many of Texas' 254 counties on Nov. 7 voted for Richard "Kinky" Friedman, an iconoclastic musician and author who waged an independent campaign for governor? (Friedman finished fourth overall, with 13 percent of the vote, in a race won by Republican incumbent Rick Perry).  0 2 4 6
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Sen. Tim Johnson, speaking slowly and slurring some words more than eight months after experiencing a life-threatening brain hemorrhage, announced Tuesday to state residents: "I am back."
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Keith Richards has returned to the United States after being treated for a head injury in New Zealand, his publicist said Monday.
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HARTFORD, Conn. -- Gov. M. Jodi Rell was recuperating at Danbury Hospital on Tuesday, a day after undergoing breast cancer surgery.
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NEW YORK - Fashion photographer Richard Avedon lay in critical but stable condition Thursday after suffering a brain hemorrhage last weekend while on assignment in Texas, a spokeswoman for The New Yorker magazine said.    Avedon, 81, was hospitalized in San Antonio, where he shooting for the magazine when he was stricken, said spokeswoman Perri Dorset...
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By Sam Hananel, Associated Press  WASHINGTON -- On a recent weeknight, Kansas Rep. Jerry Moran spoke to nearly 10,000 of his constituents at once -- from the comfort of his Capitol Hill office.
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In his first public statement since suffering a brain hemorrhage in December, Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) said yesterday:  "I am . . . focused on my recovery, and I look forward to returning to the Senate." His office  released photos of the senator as he recuperated at an undisclosed rehabilitation center on Sunday. Johnson's illness illustrates fragility of the Democrats' one-seat advantage in the Senate. Should Johnson, 60, be unable to serve, South Dakota's Republican governor would appoint hi
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Even with the prospect of prison looming, former Gov. John G. Rowland remained a politician, emphasizing the positive.
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The Texas congressman rallies his online supporters to keep giving money, and to stage a march on the nation's capital to show they mean business. He has only 16 of the 1,191 delegates needed to win the Republican presidential nod.
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By Christy Hoppe, The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 13--AUSTIN -- UBS, one of two large financial firms consulting with the governor's office over the possible sale of the Texas lottery, hired Gov. Rick Perry's son to work in its Dallas office about two weeks ago.
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Visiting U.S. lawmakers were told by Cuban officials that the ailing Fidel Castro is not terminally ill and will return to public life, but some of the legislators said they saw in the assurances of Castro's health a growing political vacuum on the Communist island.