News Bits!
- City counsel members from Farmers Branch, a suburb of Dallas, unanimously approved fines for landlords who rent to illegal immigrants, making English the city's official language and allowing local authorities to screen suspects in police custody to check their immigration status.
- Mexico's largest airline, Aeroméxico, will launch the only nonstop international service from Austin, with four weekly flights starting Dec. 15.
- Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has made the first step in the race to becoming the next president of the U.S.
- We had no idea Emmitt Smith, former Dallas Cowboy, could dance.
- Williamson County prosecutors dropped the murder charge against Michael Keith Moore for the death of Rachel Cooke.
- A lawyers' group has asked Germany to sue former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld over alleged prisoner abuse in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay.
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