Mystery of Missing Inmate and Woman Ends- April 24, 2005 AUSTIN, April 6 -- Randolph Franklin Dial used to portray himself as the hero of his own novel, writing friends that he served in Vietnam as a member of Delta Force or that he was a CIA, Secret Service or FBI agent. He told others he was a hit man with Mafia connections.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32519-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/t... WASHINGTON IN BRIEF- April 24, 2005 Senate Confirms First Judge of Second Term The Senate confirmed the first of President Bush's second-term judicial nominees yesterday as senators continued to argue over Democrats blocking the White House's most wanted candidates.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44826-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Escaped Killer's Ex-Teacher Says She Feared Aiding Abductee- April 24, 2005 A woman who has known escaped killer Randolph Dial since she taught him in high school knew that he was hiding in East Texas with the prison warden's wife he had abducted in 1994. But she said she was too afraid to help.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61214-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Player's Father Held in Shooting of Coach- April 24, 2005 AUSTIN, April 7 -- The disgruntled father of a Canton High School football player shot the school's athletic director in the campus field house Thursday and was captured several hours later, authorities said.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34399-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/t... DeLay's Ability to Raise Funds Seems Unhurt- April 24, 2005 In the first three months of this year, DeLay's personal campaign committee took in $438,235, including $100,000 he borrowed personally for his campaign.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59522-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Senator Links Violence to 'Political' Decisions- April 24, 2005 Sen. John Cornyn said yesterday that recent examples of courthouse violence may be linked to public anger over judges who make politically charged decisions without being held accountable.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26236-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/t... DeLay Apologizes for Comments- April 24, 2005 House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) apologized yesterday for heated comments he made about possible retribution against federal judges for their handling of the Terri Schiavo case, but declined to say whether he favors impeaching those judges.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51284-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Texas Governor Isn't Turning the Other Cheek in Campaign- April 24, 2005 The 46-second video shows Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) hugging -- twice -- with pair of cheek rubs thrown in for good measure.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22018-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/t... Rep. Barton Faces Energy Challenge- April 24, 2005 Rep. Joe Barton has evolved over the past 20 years from a maverick conservative willing to cast lonely, defiant votes into a central political figure who cuts deals and raises millions of dollars for his colleagues and who marshaled a small army of lobbyists to secure for himself a powerful chairmanship.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51236-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... In Texas, Fire Ants Public Enemy No. 1- April 24, 2005 LOCKHART, Tex. -- On a sunny, cloudless day Charles L. Barr walked the wilds of Central Texas in search of public enemy No. 1: the red imported fire ant.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61286-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... |