Sex offenders must turn lights out on holiday LUBBOCK -- Authorities in three West Texas counties have strict orders for sex offenders this Halloween: Go home, turn out your lights, close your blinds and don't answer your door......
Attorneys' pay faulted in death penalty cases ....Fred Sutherland, an assistant staff attorney for the district courts in Harris County, said the lead attorney is paid $100 per hour for up to $12,000 and the second-chair lawyer is paid $80 per hour for a maximum of $9,600 to prepare for trial......
Bill White hopes brains and big bucks will get him elected .....Even in perfect health, the 49-year-old plaintiffs' lawyer-turned- federal bureaucrat-turned-corporate Wedge Group CEO is not a physically imposing man, as he has since been reminded ad nauseam in media coverage of the campaign. A Houston Press holiday spoof gifted him with a case of Château Charisma and free passes to a tanning salon. The Houston Chronicle noted his "big ears," a dart he has since turned to his advantage in self-deprecating humor on the campaign trail......
