Christopher Duntsch’s surgical outcomes were so outlandishly poor that Texas prosecuted him for harming patients. Why did it take so long for the systems that are supposed to police problem doctors to stop him from operating?
Larry Hagman, who created one of American television’s most supreme villains in the conniving, amoral oilman J.R. Ewing of Dallas, has died.
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The 80-year-old actor, who starred as JR in long-running US series <i>Dallas</i>, will go ahead with filming TNT’s revival of the soap.
Three-times world surfing champion Andy Irons was found dead on
T Boone Pickens is famous for thinking big. He founded his Texan oil company, Mesa Petroleum, in 1956 with just 500 in the bank. After a string of audacious takeovers he turned it into an independent empire that challenged the big oil companies, and today he is worth -billion. Now this straight-talking Southerner is launching the biggest and most audacious project of his career.
Authorities have now removed 401 children from a remote ranch in west Texas belonging to a breakaway Mormon sect linked to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, Texas authorities said on Monday. Patrick Crimmins, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, said 401 children have been taken from the compound.
A 114-year-old woman, considered the oldest person in Texas, has died at a Dallas retirement home. Arbella Perkins Ewings celebrated her birthday on March 13 with a proclamation from mayor Tom Leppert and speeches by friends and family. She blew out all 114 candles on her birthday cake.
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/ 10 November 2007
Comic-book hero Captain America may not be back from the dead, but he is back — sort of. After Marvel Comics unexpectedly killed off the champion of liberty and the American way earlier this year, he appears in a comic made exclusively for United States soldiers. He is seen on a videotape made before his death.
The video-game industry’s annual showcase is saying goodbye to scantily clad booth babes, extravagant, multimillion-dollar exhibits, blaring lights and pounding music. Celebrity appearances from the likes of Paris Hilton or Snoop Dogg are a thing of the past, too.
The upcoming violent video game Manhunt II faces an uncertain future after being banned by at least two countries and facing a ratings controversy in the United States. But the game’s publisher, Take-Two Interactive Software, said it is determined to bring the title to market.
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/ 31 January 2007
Texas executed a man by lethal injection on Tuesday for strangling his wife and her mother. Christopher Swift, a 31-year-old labourer, was the third inmate put to death since January 1 in Texas, which has the highest execution rate in the United States.
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/ 13 January 2007
Each day, millions of people around the world gaze at their computer screens to explore a dangerous fantasy world of treasure-filled dungeons and flame-breathing dragons. It’s the <i>World of Warcraft</i>, the most successful online game to date, and it is a world about to get a whole lot bigger.
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/ 19 December 2006
Nasa planned to undock the space shuttle Discovery from the International Space Station on Tuesday after an eventful mission that included a crucial rewiring and the retraction of a stubborn solar array. The undocking will be the first step in the shuttle Discovery‘s journey home, which is slated for Friday, a day later than originally planned.
Few icons are as American as the cowboy hat: grandiose, utilitarian and a trademark of the West. The king is still Stetson, the original cowboy hat, created almost 150 years ago. Philadelphia’s John B Stetson headed west in the 1860s for health reasons. He fashioned himself a big hat to protect him from rain, sun and wind which he dubbed the ”Boss of the Plains”.
Pension fund trustees from seven states and New York City demanded to meet with Exxon Mobil’s independent directors to discuss what they called the oil company’s failure to consider how concern over global warming could affect energy companies.
Three people were killed and at least six injured when tornadoes moved through north Texas, a county official said on Wednesday. At least one tornado touched down late on Tuesday near Anna, about 60km north of Dallas. Tornadoes were also reported in the Texas Panhandle town of Childress and in south-eastern Oklahoma.
An ordinary fruit sticker that mysteriously ended up on a bill could spur currency collectors to bid up to 1 000 times the bill’s face value at an auction on Friday. The flawed bill bears a red, green and yellow Del Monte sticker next to Andrew Jackson’s portrait.
The Nobel laureate and gentle giant Jack Kilby, who has died of cancer aged 81, was acknowledged as the inventor of the microchip. He had just joined Texas Instruments in 1958 when he came up with what is called the monolithic idea — to put all the elements of an electronic circuit on a single silicon chip.
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/ 17 November 2004
A homecoming tradition in which boys dress like girls and vice versa in a tiny Texas school district won’t be held on Wednesday after a parent complained about what she regarded as the event’s homosexual overtones. ”It’s like experimenting with drugs,” the parent said. ”You just keep playing with it and it becomes customary.”
Breaking his silence amid ”the despair that is killing” him, a sobbing Craig Martin, who suffered abuse at the hands of a priest at age 11, captivated a grief-stricken audience at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.