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The Damon Allen Act bars a person from being released on a no-cash bond if charged with certain crimes.

A team of researchers from the San Antonio-based Southwest Research Institute combined computer models of asteroid evolution with observations of known asteroids to determine where the dinosaur-killing asteroid might have come from.

AVID BIANCULLI reviews "Dead Man''s Walk" the TV adaptation of Larry McMurtry''s novel which will be shown on ABC on Sunday night. INT. 1: LARRY MC MURTRY is considered one of Texas'' most prominent fiction writers even though he has not lived in that state for nearly two decades. Over his career, he has written 19 novels...including the 1986 Pulitzer Prize winning book "Lonesome Dove". His newest "Dead Man''s Walk" (Simon & Schuster 1995) takes readers to the early days of his "Lonesome Dove" heroes Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call. "Dead Man''s Walk" premieres this Sunday on ABC. (REBROADCAST from 11/22/95)INT. 2: Biographer LAURENCE BERGREEN. Saturday May 11 is the 108th anniversary of Irving Berlin''s birthday. Bergreen''s biography of Berlin, entitled "As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin" , was first published in 1990 and re-issued in paperback (Da Capo Press) in 1996. (REBROADCAST from 6/26/90)REV. : LISA SCHWARTZBAUM reviews "Twoster"

Voter turnout was low in Bexar County, and across Texas. But the folks who showed up to the polls had a specific amendment they fought for — or against.

The evacuation was prompted after a plane tied to a planned flyover of nearby Nationals Park entered restricted airspace. The Capitol Police had not been given advance notice of the approved flight.

Gov. Greg Abbott's rule imposing safety inspections at the border did "nothing to stop the flow of illegal immigration or illegal drugs," Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller told NPR.

Scientists have recorded a song coming from a volcano. They think the musical notes may someday be useful for predicting dangerous eruptions. (Story aired on All Things Considered on June 6, 2022.)

A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a remote, mountainous region of China Monday. There do not appear to be any survivors. Investigators are on their way to the scene.

His beats on songs including Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" served as a crucial foundation for the burgeoning Memphis soul sound of the 1970s.

Hailing from Anchorage, Alaska, Christopherson is a thoughtful songwriter with a powerful sense of perspective.