Kentucky latest state to prohibit alcohol vaporizers
By ROGER ALFORD Associated Press Writer
      FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The state that claims to produce the world's best bourbon has banned at least one way to consume it: vaporized for easy inhalation. Gov. Steve Beshear signed a bill on Tuesday prohibiting the sale, purchase or use of alcohol vaporizers, which are devices that resemble asthm...
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Trooper wins discrimination lawsuit against Texas DPS
      AUSTIN (AP) - A black state trooper who claimed his race partly led to his removal from Gov. Rick Perry's protective detail has been awarded more than $600,000 by a jury in a lawsuit against the Texas Department of Public Safety.
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Bush revises strategy on greenhouse gases
By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writers
      WASHINGTON (AP) _ Revising his stance on global warming, President Bush will propose a new target for stopping the growth of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.
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TEXAS NEWS BRIEFS
      SAN ANGELO (AP) - When police officers armed with weapons and protective gear descended on a West Texas ranch owned by a polygamist church, its members responded by going to their knees in prayer. Images released Tuesday show police entering the Yearning for Zion ranch on April 3 wearing body ar...
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World's beaches strewn with trash
By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writer
      WASHINGTON (AP) _ The world's beaches and shores are anything but pristine. Volunteers scoured 33,000 miles of shoreline worldwide and found 6 million pounds of debris from cigarette butts and food wrappers to abandoned fishing lines and plastic bags that threaten seabirds and marine mammals.
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Tow truck driver takes car with sleeping boy inside
      DALLAS (AP) - A tow truck driver unknowingly hauled away a car with a 7-year-old asleep inside before returning the vehicle minutes later and speeding away, police said. The panicked parents of the missing boy watched the driver hurriedly unhook their car and take off as they met with authoritie...
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