Features

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  Ronald Taylor Is One of Perhaps Hundreds of Innocent People Harris County Has Sent to Prison

  Our local justice system would prefer to leave them there

  By Randall Patterson

  Thursday, October 09

  Ronald Gene Taylor's long night began one morning 15 years ago when he was awakened by the sound of police kicking in the neighbor's... More >>
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  Soldier Suicides

  Surviving our War on Terror calls for more than an ability to dodge bullets and IEDs

  By Megan Feldman

  Thursday, October 02

  They buried the first brother the day before Thanksgiving. As mourners trickled out of Lubbock's Resthaven Memorial Park in the gray chill,... More >>
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  Rex "Wrecks" Bell Is Just Playing

  The Galveston singer-songwriter spent a lot of years on the periphery of music greatness and right in the middle of its excesses

  By John Nova Lomax

  Thursday, September 25

  Foreword: Much of the reporting of this feature took place before Hurricane Ike. On the eve of the storm, Rex Bell sent the following e-mail out... More >>
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  Language Barrier at Child Protective Services

  For the first year, Baby Raymond lived happily with his family. Then the agency took him away and even though his Chinese-American family fought to get him back, they couldn't find the right words

  By Craig Malisow

  Thursday, September 18

  And the Lord said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing... More >>
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  Gangsters in Bacliff

  The unincorporated town is up to its elbows in youth gangs, poverty and crime

  By John Nova Lomax

  Thursday, September 11

  At the stroke of midnight and into the predawn this past May 20, the little unincorporated Galveston County town of Bacliff was roiling with... More >>