DALLAS — The temperature might be 75 during the first Super Bowl week in Dallas-Fort Worth. It could be 25. Or both. So while Super Bowl travelers are packing everything from T-shirts to wool overcoats for the area’s fickle winter ...

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WASHINGTON — Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is taking over as chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. He succeeds Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, who was the chairman of the political arm of the nation’s Democratic governors during 2010. O’Malley was the ...

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HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to hear an appeal from a woman on death row for the murder of a mentally impaired man 12 years ago in Harris County. Suzanne Basso, 56, does not have an execution ...

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HOUSTON — The official in charge of identifying and dealing with the risks of BP’s offshore Gulf marine operations acknowledged Monday that he rarely had contact with a key manager at the owner of the rig that exploded April 20, ...

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