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A photo provided by the Harris County Sheriff’s Office shows Carlton Berry. Authorities have charged 22-year-old Berry with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. They say Berry and another man were involved in an argument that escalated into gunfire at Lone Star College, a Houston-area community college. (AP Photo/Harris County Sheriff’s Office)

Sheriff: Second suspect possible in Lone Star College attack

Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) - Carlton Berry, 22, is charged with two felony counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon...
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Family members of Lonestar College shooting victim wait for word on his condition.

Lone Star College shooting: Victim's sister speaks

Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press
HOUSTON - A shooting on a Texas community college campus wounded three people Tuesday and sent students fleeing for safety as officials placed the campus on lock down, officials said...
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In this frame grab provided by KPRC Houston, an unidentified person is transported by emergency personnel at Lone Star College Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, in Houston, where law enforcement officials say the community college is on lockdown amid reports of a shooter on campus. (AP Photo/Courtesy KPRC TV)

Texas official: 3 wounded in Lone Star College shooting

Juan A. Lozano and Michael Graczyk, Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) - A shooting on a Texas community college campus wounded at least two people Tuesday and sent students fleeing for safety as officials placed the campus on lockdown, officials said...
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School tells 5-year-old he must cut hair before returning to school.

5-year-old boy turned away from school for long hair

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VIDEO - Ursula Martin said when she tried to enroll her son at Roberts Road Elementary, 24920 Zube Road in Hockley, officials there told her that her son's hair is too long and would need to be cut...
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Now 56 years old he is still awaiting a re-trial after 30 years. (AP Photo/Michael Graczyk)

Man’s murder conviction overturned, sits in prison 30 years

Michael Graczyk, Associated Press
GATESVILLE, Texas (AP) - Jerry Hartfield was still a young man when an uncle visited him in prison to tell him that his murder conviction had been overturned and he would get a new trial...
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Comedian Katt Williams poses at the 'Comic Relief 2006' show at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace November 18, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The benefit was held to help families in the Gulf Coast affected by Hurricane Katrina. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

'Katt Williams is definitely not retiring,' reps say

Marquise Francis
theGRIO REPORT - Just four days after announcing his retirement from stand up comedy on a street corner in Seattle, comedian Katt Williams is changing his tune, according to TMZ...
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In this July 30, 1987, file photo, Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Texas rest his head on hand during the Iran-Contra hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington. Brooks, a Democrat who spent 42 years representing his Southeast Texas district, has died at age 89. (AP Photo/Lana Harris, File)

Co-author of 1964 Civil Rights Act dead at 89

Michael Graczyk, Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) - Jack Brooks, who spent 42 years in Congress representing his Southeast Texas district and was in the Dallas motorcade in 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, has died. He was 89...
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A notice found on a bulletin board at Rock Springs Apartments reads, "We ask you to please contact the office immediately every time you see teenagers or adolescents of Afro-American race or any other suspicious people in the property." (Photo by Robert Stanton/Houston Chronicle)

Apartment notice warns against 'adolescents of Afro-American race'

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT - A notice warning residents about black youth was posted at a southwest Houston apartment complex yesterday to the outrage of some of the city's community members.
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Can Texas close the racial achievement gap in their schools?

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT - Texas education commissioner Michael Williams is considering a new rating system that takes the achievement gap into account when measuring schools' performances each year...
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Dozens of white supremacist gang members charged

Michael Graczyk, Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) - Four top leaders of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood of Texas are among nearly three dozen alleged gang members charged in a sweeping indictment unsealed Friday...
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