Dying Texas Man Casts His Vote
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In the 10 days after Welch Flippin decided to stop dialysis and began succumbing to kidney failure, the 85-year-old Texas farmer and World War II veteran had something on his mind. Something, he told his son, he just had to do. He wanted to vote.
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"It's sad to say that my vote has come down to this ... I just want to see an honest candidate," admits Mike Bodnia of Edina, Minnesota. That's why he's choosing Sen. John McCain in his state's upcoming primary, though he doesn't agree with McCain on every issue.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man was put to death  by lethal injection on Wednesday for murdering two teen-agers  while high on drugs in 1995.
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There's the poor, 32-year-old mother of seven who says it would cost her at least $50 to vote in person. There's also the 92-year-old woman who's voted for decades in the same polling place, but now can't vote there because she let her driver's license expire when her eyesight began to fail.
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A man diagnosed with terminal lung cancer who was planning to host his own living wake has died.
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HOUSTON, Texas  - Texas Gov. Rick Perry granted a  rare stay of execution to a Houston woman just hours before she  was scheduled to die on Wednesday night by lethal injection for  the 1987 murder of her husband and two children.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A prisoner convicted of  killing a man during a 1994 robbery was put to death on  Wednesday in the first of two scheduled executions this week in  Texas.
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Governor commutes sentence of man who was scheduled to die via lethal injection this evening.
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Action film star and presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr., who refused to concede May's election, died early Tuesday after suffering a stroke. He was 65.
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One leading candidate has been debilitated by what he said was an attempt to poison him.
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He died after a prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 80.
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In the past few months, Sarasota resident Mary Pierson has taken some of the most important tests of her life. Tests that determined she was a possible match for her husband, Mark, who needs a kidney transplant.
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The widower of a motor neurone disease sufferer  who fought for assisted suicide is to remarry.
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By Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.
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President Bush is about to come face-to-face with the one man who has his voting record beat.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas Time may be running out for a woman on death row in Texas. Frances Newton is scheduled to get a lethal injection tomorrow evening for the 1987 shooting deaths of her husband and two small children.
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The deciding votes in this critical battleground state could be cast long before President Bush and Sen. John Kerry make their final pleas to voters.