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Conservatives can sleep soundly knowing the fight for gay marriage is not returning to Texas shores—at least not entirely. The only Democratic candidate for Texas Attorney General, Barbara Radnofsky, says Texans were so eager to ban gay marriages in 2005 that they banned marriages altogether. Don't understand how? Read on.

A judge in Dallas and state Attorney General Greg Abbott are publicly butting heads over a potentially precedent-setting gay divorce case.

Today, along with the attorneys general of 32 other states, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court. The brief asks the court to clarify whether the right to bear arms, guaranteed by the Second Amendment, extends to non-federal enclaves like states and cities. Abbott filed the request on behalf of a Chicago resident who has been prohibited by city ordinances from obtaining a handgun.

Texas AG Abbott filing against GM bankruptcy. Supreme Court won't take on the border fence case involving Texas counties. Hiring freeze: AISD no longer hiring teachers. Elsa Murano forced to resign as president of A&M? Elgin man arrested after robbing a topless dancer. APD launches web-based crime alerts.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is suing Darque Tan owner Robbie Segler and his affiliates for false marketing claims stating that searing your flesh with carcinogenic light bulbs is actually good for you and can reduce your risks of some cancers. In a follow up to a story that originally broke in May, Darque Tan’s marketing material in both print and online video ads suggests that their tanning beds increase Vitamin D levels in the body, thereby reducing customers’ risks of contracting cancer. The state is arguing that those claims violate the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the Texas Health and Safety Code which prohibits tanning salons from saying that their tanning devices provide any benefits of the health or medical variety. The FDA has not approved tanning beds as a way to reduce cancer risks or absorb more Vitamin D. Any advertising claims that state otherwise are considered false and in violation of the law.

Abbott's office has seemed to focus the investigation on highly Democratic areas of the state and has "prosecuted 26 cases – all against Democrats, and almost all involving blacks or Hispanics," yesterday's article points out. People who mailed ballots for disabled or elderly people have been fined, and only 8 of the cases have involved real suspect activity such as voting for a dead relative, an attempt to double-vote, and registering non-existent people at actual addresses.