HOUSTON (AP) — “Affluenza,” the affliction cited by a psychologist to argue that a North Texas teenager from a wealthy family should not be sent to prison for killing four pedestrians while driving drunk, is not a recognized diagnosis and should not be used to justify bad behavior, experts said Thursday. A judge’s decision to […]
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Jack Johnson’s Family Wants Obama Pardon
HOUSTON (AP) — Relatives and hometown supporters of the nation’s first Black heavyweight boxing champion are turning to YouTube to convince President Barack Obama to posthumously pardon him of a 1913 conviction for accompanying a White woman across state lines. Jack Johnson, nicknamed the “Galveston Giant” after his Texas hometown, was at the center of […]
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Spokesman: George H.W. Bush in Intensive Care
HOUSTON (AP) — A spokesman says former President George H.W. Bush is in the intensive care unit at a Houston hospital. Bush’s spokesman, Jim McGrath, said late Wednesday that the former president was admitted to the ICU on Sunday at Methodist Hospital, “following a series of setbacks including a persistent fever.” McGrath says Bush is […]
