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• Texans mourn Lady Bird Johnson

  By Marilyn Tennissen | Wednesday, Jul 11, 2007 @ 4:00pm

  Lady Bird Johnson, former first lady, in the Texas Hill Country. The Lone Star State mourned the passage of a woman close to its heart July 11 with the death of the Lady Bird Johnson, the former U.S. first lady with the green thumb. She was 94.

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• Texas jury hits Chavez-owned gas pumper for emissions breaches

  By Rob Luke | Thursday, Jun 28, 2007 @ 9:34am

  Ronald J. Tenpas AUSTIN -- A Texas federal court has sustained two major breaches of the Clean Air Act against petroleum refiner and retailer CITGO, owned by the Venezuelan government.

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• Texas AG says drugmakers ripped "tens of millions" off Medicaid

  By Rob Luke | Thursday, Jun 21, 2007 @ 9:13am

  Greg Abbott AUSTIN -- Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has apparently decided that it's Big Generic Pharma's turn for some legal heat.

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• Oil refineries accused of poisoning neighbors want children removed from suit

  By David Yates | Thursday, Jun 21, 2007 @ 2:35am

  Justices on the Ninth Court of Appeals will entertain oral arguments

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• Abbott sues pharmaceutical companies for Medicaid fraud

  By Marilyn Tennissen | Wednesday, Jun 20, 2007 @ 9:20am

  Greg Abbott AUSTIN � Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed a suit against three major pharmaceutical companies on charges the companies defrauded the Medicaid system.

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• Texas Attorney General: First-In-The-Nation Crackdown on Sex Offenders Using MySpace.com Yields Multiple Arrests

  By The SE Texas Record | Thursday, Jun 14, 2007 @ 6:00am

  Reginald Collins of Houston was one of seven previously convicted sex offenders with online profiles on MySpace.com arrested in an operation by the Texas attorney general. HOUSTON � Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott revealed the results of the nation's first large-scale crackdown on registered sex offenders using the popular social networking site, MySpace.com.

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• Lee files suit against Pate over campaign signs

  By Marilyn Tennissen | Monday, Jun 11, 2007 @ 2:00pm

  Beaumont Councilman W.L. Pate He has already filed an informal complaint with the state election commission, and now local activist Allen Lee has filed a lawsuit against one of his opponents in the May 12 Beaumont city council election.

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• Attorney general targets financer over contested debt collecting

  By Rob Luke | Wednesday, Jun 6, 2007 @ 8:00pm

  Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott HOUSTON -- Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has filed action against an Illinois finance company already in legal hot water in its home state over disputed accounts.

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• Texas AG's trash trawlers bag checks for sixth ID-protection suit

  By The SE Texas Record | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 @ 10:00am

  Greg Abbott announces action against Check 'n Go AUSTIN -- It's a rare fisherman who shifts from where the fish are biting, no matter how bad it might smell there.

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• Settlement with American National Insurance Co. to benefit 17,000 Texas consumers

  By The SE Texas Record | Thursday, May 24, 2007 @ 4:00am

  Press release from the office of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott

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• Abbott hooks 'Horns to commit to 'fairer' student-lending rules

  By Rob Luke | Wednesday, May 23, 2007 @ 6:00am

  Greg Abbott It looks like there'll be no more party-favored preferred lender lists at the University of Texas.

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• MySpace will surrender data about sex offenders to Texas attorney general

  By The SE Texas Record | Tuesday, May 22, 2007 @ 3:00am

  Press release from the office of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott

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• Lawyer disputes attorney general's read on co-op bosses' payments

  By Rob Luke | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 @ 9:00am

  Jan Soifer The state of Texas won't intervene in the latest dispute between the nation's largest electricity cooperative and some of its 200,000 customers, according to Attorney General Greg Abbott's office.

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• Texas AG's bin bombers bag him fifth ID-protection lawsuit

  By Rob Luke | Thursday, May 10, 2007 @ 6:00pm

  AUSTIN -- The Texas Attorney General's identity-protecting dumpster divers aren't fussy about where they fish for evidence of Texas businesses breaking identity-protection laws.

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• Attorney general cans "Coke" over drug, health marketing claims

  By Rob Luke | Thursday, May 3, 2007 @ 7:00am

  Greg Abbott AUSTIN -- Richard Blumenthal apparently isn't the only state attorney general that has worries about a new drink called "Cocaine" running all around his brain.

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• Attorney general's gumshoes nab 70-year-old in county probe

  By Rob Luke | Thursday, Apr 26, 2007 @ 12:00pm

  Greg Abbott For the pilfering public employees of Texas, age is apparently no refuge from Attorney General Greg Abbott's investigations.

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• Orwig stepping down as U.S. Attorney, says move not related to national issue

  By Marilyn Tennissen | Saturday, Apr 7, 2007 @ 7:00am

  Matthew Orwig, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, is leaving his post at the end of May to join a law firm opening a branch in Dallas.

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• Attorney General Abbott stops illegal contact lens dispensers

  By Marilyn Tennissen | Thursday, Apr 5, 2007 @ 5:00am

  SAN ANTONIO �Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott stopped two local contact lens dispensers from illegally selling contact lenses without prescriptions.

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• Attorney general's dumpster-diving snares third big score

  By Rob Luke | Wednesday, Apr 4, 2007 @ 6:00am

  Abbott AUSTIN -- Companies in Texas should soon start to get the message that attorney general Greg Abbott is growing a little edgy about identity theft.

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• Business, bureaucrats hope lawmakers trump Abbott's SSN rule

  By Rob Luke | Wednesday, Mar 28, 2007 @ 9:55am

  Attorney General Greg Abbott AUSTIN -- Texas's public-record keepers might soon be off the hook from a controversial identity-theft ruling issued last month by Attorney General Greg Abbott.

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