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Do the region's animal laws need more teeth?
By jessicapriest in On the Docket
I'm working on a story this week about a retired couple that traps beloved pets in their backyard that they say are ruining their vegetable garden. They take them to the Victoria County Animal Control, but said they've also dropped ...
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Need to get the pro/con idea wheel spinning
By jessicapriest in On the Docket
I still have a few more hours to get my Wednesday blog post in. I've been mulling some ideas around in my head, but haven't had a chance to write them down yet. Here goes nothing. ... The other day, ...
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Census offers clearer picture of life in the Crossroads
By jessicapriest in On the Docket
Almost everyday I call my dad as I head to work just to chat. He promptly tells me what the weather is like as if he weren't in Houston, as if we were thousands of miles apart. Then, he complains ...
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Mulitple bills filed after alleged prosecutorial misconduct
By jessicapriest in On the Docket
Wow. It's 2013. When did that happen and why aren't we driving hover cars like the Jetsons? Now that I've acknowledged in a roundabout way that I've unfortunately neglected this blog for a long time, I thought I'd give you ...
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Small town grapples with parody Twitter accounts, draws national attention
By jessicapriest in On the Docket
It's the end of the year and, for news organizations, that means top 10 lists galore. I've lived in Texas all my life and spent four years attending college in Huntsville, what's known as the prison capital of the Lone ...
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By jessicapriest in On the Docket
Last week, I got to sit in on my first federal trial in Victoria, and it was about, of all things, bald eagles. I got some reader response from my reports about Sam Mathew, a Missouri City man charged with ...
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Should sitting in a pew be a punishment?
By jessicapriest in On the Docket
Updated at 6 p.m.: An Oklahoma judge thought Jesus was the answer for a 17-year-old convicted of driving under the influence manslaughter. Now, the American Civil Liberties Union is calling for the judge to get a punishment of his own ...
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Justices to hear DNA testing debate
By jessicapriest in On the Docket
Watch any crime show and you'll see detectives cleverly offer whoever they're interrogating a drink. The law savvy politely (and, some, not-so-politely) decline, but others leave their DNA on the brim of a cup, ripe for analysis. Supreme Court justices ...
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Should death row inmates be allowed to donate their organs?
By jessicapriest in On the Docket
The Texas Tribune asked today whether death row inmates should be allowed to donate their organs. What an interesting question - to say the least. On one hand, a policy allowing this could speed up the process for at least ...
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By jessicapriest in On the Docket
I think it's a bit unfair to sum up anyone with one word, but that's exactly what the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Washington Post asked some 1,008 adults to do from Aug. 31 ...