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The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Austin City Council to change recently adopted ballot language for a proposed camping ban ordinance, ruling that voters would be misled unless the wording were changed. According to the 6-3 ruling, the change should be rather simple to make: Delete one word — "anyone" — that was used twice in the ballot language for Proposition B. The City Council promptly followed the courts order, voting unanimously Tuesday to drop the offending word. The i...

The Texas Supreme Court in Austin. (Courthouse News photo / Kelsey Jukam) AUSTIN, Texas (CN) — Facebook urged the Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday to dismiss lawsuits from three women who say they were pulled into the sex trade by pimps who contacted them on the company’s social media platforms. The world’s largest social media network with 2.8 billion active users, Facebook has vastly expanded its footprint since Mark Zuckerberg started it in 2004 as a way for him and his fellow Harvard ...

Freedomways, the African American journal of politics and culture that for nearly a quarter century chronicled the civil rights and Black freedom movements beginning in the early 1960s, started in 1961, a year that was a kind of transitional one for the civil rights movement. The sit-ins that had begun in early 1960, and the continuing demonstrations and emerging fervor, had made national headlines, but the movement hadn’t yet achieved the national stature that it would a couple of years late...

3 Read / Add Comments HERO: A Paramus police lieutenant saved the life of a missing 42-year-old borough man with special needs when he found him lying shoeless and gloveless in the snow in a nearby park. Temperatures were in the teens when what became an intensive search for the Spring Valley Road man began around 6 a.m. Theyd only reached the low 20s when Detective Lt. John Devine, who was among those searching for him, found the man in nearby Van Saun Park seve...

February 06, 2021 1:14 AMLegal - By CINCINNATI—By all logic, the case of the State of Kentucky versus L.D. Management Company, which owns the Lions Den adult store location in Upton, Kentucky, should have ended when U.S. District Judge Justin R. Walker issued his ruling in the case last April, since the issue was pretty clear: Kentucky was trying to trample Lions Dens free speech rights by ordering the store to take down the billboard it had erected on the side of a tractor-trailer sitting ...

Tom Dunnes Music & Me: Fr Ted, Ian Gillan and other tales from my secret soccer past  An alternative football scene in the 1990s gave some of us from the Irish music world a chance to rub shoulders, and kick shins, with our celebrity brethren from the UK. It was a lot of fun, and occasionally got a little spicy  Alternative Ireland: BACK, L-R,  Dermot Morgan. Nicky English, Jerry Fehily (Hot House Flowers), Barney Rock (?), Billy McGrath, unknown, Oliver Walshe; FRONT,  Shay Healy, Ray Tre...

Tales of the Hardin and Riley cattle operations The large California cattle partnership expanded into Central and Eastern Oregon James Hardin was born in Kentucky in 1830. He came west with his family by ox team in 1853 and settled in Sonoma County, California. He soon started raising cattle and expanded his operations during the next 40 years. Before the transcontinental railroad was completed, he had crossed the plains six times with herds of cattle. He opened a general mercantile ...

Alan Kelly is feeling fortunate - and its not just because he landed a new job. The 62-year-old Dubliner was recently named the chief executive of Metamo, a 50:50 joint venture between 16 of Irelands largest credit unions and fintech company Fexco. While the role is one reason Kelly feels grateful, he has also been blessed with a bout of good fortune that began in September 2019. Back then, he sold his hotel business, The Maples House Hotel in Glasnevin, just months before the Covid-19 pandemic...

Without comment, the Lone Star State’s highest civil court found that America’s foremost conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones, and his flagship media outlet, InfoWars, are subject to liability in four separate defamation lawsuits filed over the past two-plus years. Those lawsuits were filed by parents of children who were killed during the Sandy Hook massacre and by a man Jones and his network falsely identified as the perpetrator of the Parkland massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School...

By Tal Axelrod - 01/22/21 03:03 PM EST   The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to dismiss four defamation lawsuits against him from parents whose children were killed in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. The rulings, which came without comment from the justices, upheld decisions by two lower courts allowing the lawsuits to proceed. The parents sued Jones in Travis County, where his popular, far-right website...