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In 2023, the Corpus Christi Police Department (CCPD), with two detectives on its cold case squad, began reviewing 100 ...

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The latest version of the bill includes a previously nixed provision to allow Texans to donate crypto to the fund.

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Ken and Angela Paxton have ties to a jet-setting lobbyist-turned-CEO caught in a tangled web of alleged fraud involving a powerful business clan and a commercial shipping giant.