Year: 2012

National News

Fitzhugh: Win Not Likely In Gubernatorial Bid

House Minority Leader Craig Fitzhugh is mulling a gubernatorial bid in 2014, but the Ripley Democrat says it's not because…

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National News

New Polls Suggest Elementary School Shootings May Be Changing Public Opinion

During the 1990s, national polling indicated that a majority of Americans supported stricter gun laws. But public opinion has shifted…

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International News

Russian Soccer Fans Demand All-White, Non-Gay Team

Fans of two-time defending Russian champion Zenit St. Petersburg are calling for non-white and gay players to be excluded from…

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International News

Cameroonian Jailed For Texting ‘I’m In Love With You’ To Another Man

A Cameroon appeals court upheld a sentence against a man convicted of homosexuality for texting his male friend to say,…

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National News

Transgender College Hoops Player Keeps Head High

People had plenty to say about 6-foot-6-inch, 220-pound Gabrielle Ludwig, who joined the Lady Saints as a mid-season walk-on and…

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News

Pflugerville ISD Upholds Domestic-Partner Benefits

The Pflugerville school board has upheld rules extending insurance benefits to domestic partners effective Jan. 1.

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National News

Kagan Praises Scalia For Work On Supreme Court

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan says her colleague Antonin Scalia deserves a lot of credit for getting the high court…

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International News

Hawking Calls For Pardon For Code-Breaker Turing

Stephen Hawking and other eminent scientists called Friday for the British government to pardon computer pioneer Alan Turing, who helped…

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Arts & Entertainment

Alan Cumming Picks Five Unconventional Family Films

Who better than the film's star, Alan Cumming, to ponder the most memorably unusual families in film history?

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National News

GOP Senator Key In NY Gay Marriage OK Concedes

A Republican who cast the deciding vote to legalize gay marriage in New York has conceded he lost his re-election…

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