Austin, 

20080221
• Hillary Clinton - Barack Obama - Texas - Austin - 2008 Election - "The CNN Democratic presidential debate in Texas." ... "This is the transcript of the debate between [2008 Election] Democratic presidential candidates [Senators] Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on February 21, 2008 at the University of Texas in Austin." -CNN

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20070426
• Women's - Abortion - Health - Politics - Law - Enforcement - Austin - Texas - "Explosive found at Austin [Texas] women's clinic." ... "A package left at a women's clinic that performs abortions contained an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or death, investigators said today." -AP via -Chron

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20051106
• Texas - Austin - Gay - Religion - Law - "Prop 2 brings KKK to Austin, to the dismay of both sides: Some question the Klan's motives in entering debate on gay marriage." ... "Twelve members of the Ku Klux Klan clamored against gay marriage at a pre-election rally Saturday, struggling to regain relevance in a society that recoils from its racist past." ... ""We're asking Texans to support Proposition 2 because God supports it, not because the KKK supports it," said Steven Edwards, calling himself the Texas Grand Dragon of the American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan." -By Polly Ross Hughes -AP -HoustonChronicle.com 

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20051101
• Texas - Austin - Tom DeLay - Law - "DeLay Succeeds in Having Judge Removed." ... "Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay won the first skirmish in his conspiracy and money laundering case today when a Texas judge was removed from presiding over the trial after DeLay's attorneys showed he has been a significant financial contributor to Democratic causes." ... "District Judge Robert Perkins of Travis County, Texas, was removed at the close of a hearing in the state capital in Austin when a separate Texas district judge, brought out of retirement, ruled that Perkins' history of making 34 donations in the last five years to Democratic candidates and organizations suggested he would not be impartial in hearing the trial of the Republican member of Congress." -By Richard A. Serrano -LAtimes 

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20051020
• Texas - Austin - Tom DeLay - Politics - "DeLay's co-defendants denounce prosecutor as ruthless, vindictive." ... "Tom DeLay's co-defendants broke months of silence Thursday with a show of solidarity and accusations of a smear campaign by an Austin prosecutor [Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle], a volley launched just as DeLay was booked on a campaign-finance charge." ... "Earle has charged the DeLay aides with violating the state ban on corporate campaign money, alleging they tried to circumvent the ban by sending $190,000 from TRMPAC to the Republican National Committee with a list of Texas legislative candidates who should get an equal sum. Two weeks later, seven candidates got checks from a national GOP account totaling $190,000." -By Todd J. Gillman -DallasNews.com via -MercuryNews 

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• Texas - Austin - Tom DeLay - Politics - "DeLay Booked in Houston on Charges." ... "Rep. Tom DeLay turned himself in Thursday at the sheriff's office and was fingerprinted, photographed and released on $10,000 bail on conspiracy and money-laundering charges." ... "Accompanied by his attorney, Dick DeGuerin, the former House majority leader showed up about midday, appeared before a judge and was gone in less than 30 minutes, sheriff's Lt. John Martin said." ... "The Texas Republican is scheduled to make his first court appearance on Friday in Austin." -By Michael Graczyk -AP via -SFGate.com 

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20050928
• Tom DeLay - Austin - Texas - 2002 Election - Political - Business - "DeLay indicted, steps down as majority leader." ... "Rep. Tom DeLay said Wednesday that he will step aside as House majority leader after a Texas grand jury indicted him on a conspiracy charge." ... "A grand jury in Austin charged DeLay, 58, and two associates already facing criminal charges with a single count of criminal conspiracy, accusing them of improperly funneling corporate donations to a DeLay-founded political action committee to Republican candidates for the Texas Legislature in 2002." -CNN 

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• Tom DeLay - Austin - Texas - Business - Politics - 2002 Election - "DeLay Indicted in Texas Campaign Finance Probe." ... "A Texas grand jury today indicted House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and two political associates, charging them with a conspiracy to violate Texas campaign finance laws. DeLay said he was temporarily stepping down from his post as the No. 2 Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives." ... "The indictment names John Colyandro and James Ellis as DeLay's co-conspirators, Travis Dist. Atty. Ronald Earle announced in Austin." ... "Specifically, Earle's office said, DeLay is charged with conspiring with Ellis and Colyandro "to violate the Texas Election Code by contributing corporate money to certain candidates for the Texas legislature."" ... "The 2002 legislative election at the center of the arrangement led to a historic realignment of the Texas House, just before it took up a redistricting measure that would eventually realign U.S. House districts in Texas under a map favorable to Republicans." -By James Gerstenzang -LAtimes 

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20050526
• -  -  - Tom DeLay -Austin - 2002 Election - "New ethics cloud over leading U.S. Republican DeLay." ... "Ethics questions swirling around U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom DeLay mounted on Thursday when a Texas judge ruled that a committee the powerful Republican had formed violated state law by failing to disclose $600,000 in mostly corporate donations." ... "State District Judge Joe Hart in Austin [Texas] made the ruling in a lawsuit filed by five Democratic candidates defeated in 2002 by Republicans who received money from Texans for a Republican Majority, a political action committee founded by DeLay to help Republicans capture the Texas Legislature." (1, 2) -By Mark Babineck -Reuters via-WashingtonPost 

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20050503
• Mother's-Day - Homes - Florida - Georgia - Austin - TX - IL - Des-Moines - IA - Connecticut - Oklahoma - WA - Nebraska - Phoenix - AZ - Virginia - CA - Utah - North Carolina - "Women helping build homes." ... "Women Build is a partnership of Habitat for Humanity and the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores. It is an annual event that gives women a chance to help needy families. Female crews have built 650 Habitat houses in the United States." ... "[Along with Pensacola, Florida] Other cities with Mother's Day Women Build projects are Atlanta [Georgia]; Austin, Texas; Chicago [Illinois]; Des Moines, Iowa; Hartford, Conn. [Connecticut]; Oklahoma City [Oklahoma]; Olympia, Wash. [Washington]; Omaha, Neb. [Nebraska]; Phoenix [Arizona]; Richmond, Va [Virginia].; San Francisco [California]; Salt Lake City [Utah]; Tacoma, Wash. [Washington]; and Winston-Salem, N.C. [North Carolina]" -By Bill Kaczor -APvia -NJ.com

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• Habitat.org/wb

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