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Breakaway Mormon Sect Builds Temple in West Texas

By Jordan Smith

Austin Chronicle | August 31, 2005

Residents of Eldorado, Texas, wonder how the practice of polygamy and allegations of criminal wrongdoing against the sect's elusive leader will affect their town.

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Tags: prophet Warren Jeffs, The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

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Playing Games with Painnew

Texas bill would ban abortion after "fetal pain"

Austin Chronicle | Jordan Smith | 04-16-2013 | The War on Women

Tags: Jodie Laubenberg, Laubenberg Bill, Texas House Bill 2364

Your Word Is Your Bondnew

Travis County moves toward broader pretrial release of the accused. Commercial bondsmen say it will never work.

Austin Chronicle | JORDAN SMITH | 10-17-2012 | Crime & Justice

Tags: bonds

Death Row Inmate Hoping for Supreme Interventionnew

The Court of Criminal Appeals last week denied a stay of execution for Robert Wayne Harris, convicted in 2000 of killing two people during a shooting spree at the Mi-T-Fine Car Wash in Irving. Unless the federal courts intervene, on Sept. 20 he'll be the eighth man executed in Texas this year.

Austin Chronicle | Jordan Smith | 09-18-2012 | Crime & Justice

Tags: Death Penalty, Death Row

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