#Texas
# texas - Wednesday 16 September, 2015
This is how a Texas school explained why a boy was arrested for making a clock
The school used the opportunity to remind parents that their children shouldn’t bring ‘prohibited items’ to school.
Outrage after 14-year-old taken from school in handcuffs - for bringing a clock to class
He says that police officers said the clock, “looked like a movie bomb”.
# texas - Wednesday 2 September, 2015
Man accidentally shoots himself dead while posing for a selfie with a gun
Police say he was “handling a gun he believed to be unloaded.”
WATCH: Doctors save man's hand - by inserting it into his belly
“Kind of like a hoodie…”
Prosecutor says video shows police shooting man while his hands are in the air
In the video Gilbert Flores is seen outside a house with his arms raised before shots are fired and he falls.
# texas - Monday 10 August, 2015
The 5 at 5: Monday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
Man charged after eight members of Texas family shot dead
Daniel Conley is due to appear in court later today.
# texas - Sunday 9 August, 2015
Video emerges of Christian Taylor shortly before he was shot dead
Today marks the first anniversary of Michael Brown’s death.
# texas - Saturday 1 August, 2015
Here's how to find your iPhone if it falls from a plane
More a case of “when” rather than “if”, really.
# texas - Thursday 23 July, 2015
Woman who died in Texas jail cell told police of previous suicide attempt
The woman’s family disputes this claim and their lawyer said social activists like Bland “don’t take their own life”.
# texas - Wednesday 22 July, 2015
The Texas woman who died in a jail cell was threatened with a Taser by police
Questions remain over whether or not the arrest video was edited.
# texas - Thursday 16 July, 2015
'She would never do that to herself': Questions raised after woman found dead in jail cell
Sandra Bland has pulled over for a traffic offence but was arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer.
# texas - Tuesday 7 July, 2015
2 Irish lads were interviewed live on US TV in their GAA jerseys and it was gas
“I’d just like to say that I’m leaving my lucky Tipp jersey in Texas.”
# texas - Monday 6 July, 2015
Man shouts "f*ck those alligators", jumps into water, gets eaten by alligators
“He said “blank” the alligators and thereupon jumped into the water.”
# texas - Monday 29 June, 2015
Texas is fighting back against US marriage equality
The state’s attorney general said Texans ‘must speak with one voice against this lawlessness’.
# texas - Saturday 27 June, 2015
There's something a little spooky about this empty, 46-bedroom mansion
It would set you back €3.12 million.
# texas - Saturday 20 June, 2015
US presidential hopeful calls Charleston massacre an accident
The Republican governor said drugs, and not gun control, may be the real issue here.
# texas - Tuesday 16 June, 2015
Airport staff took a little boy's lost teddy on a wonderful adventure of its own
Hobbes didn’t get a holiday – but he got something better.
# texas - Sunday 14 June, 2015
'You need a permit': Girls raising Father's Day funds told to shut down their lemonade stand
“I was a little confused,” 8-year-old Andria Green said.
# texas - Saturday 13 June, 2015
Dallas: Suspect in attack on police HQ killed, bombs found in van
A man opened fire on the Dallas police HQ from a number of positions – before leading officers on a chase away from the city.
# texas - Friday 12 June, 2015
Police shut down these little girls' lemonade stand, because joy is illegal
Who would call the cops on a pair of little girls? Who?
# texas - Thursday 11 June, 2015
Elderly man and his dog die after becoming 'trapped inside' Corvette
The car’s locking mechanism malfunctioned.
# texas - Tuesday 9 June, 2015
Carl Frampton is heading to Texas to fight a Mexican in the defence of his world title
The fight will take place in July.
This waitress' kind gesture to grieving parents has melted everyone's heart
Sometimes, the kindness overrides everything.
# texas - Sunday 7 June, 2015
WATCH: Texas cop throws black girl in a bikini to the ground, threatens teens with gun
The officer has been placed on “administrative leave” after a wave of outrage across America.
# texas - Friday 5 June, 2015
This man has just had the world's first skull transplant
For good measure, Jim Boysen also got a new kidney and pancreas.
# texas - Thursday 21 May, 2015
Waco bikers hid guns in sacks of tortilla chips and down a toilet
A video from the scene shows bikers running into the bathroom and the kitchen during the shootout.
# texas - Monday 18 May, 2015
Police charge 170 after 'gruesome' shootout between biker gangs
Nine people died and 18 were wounded in the incident.
# texas - Wednesday 6 May, 2015
This school won't teach sex ed, now 20 of its students have chlamydia
The high school handbook instructs the promotion of abstinence over any other behaviour.
# texas - Tuesday 5 May, 2015
Islamic State militants say they've struck the US for the first time
The group says the US will see ‘the soldiers of the Islamic State do terrible things’.
# texas - Monday 4 May, 2015
WATCH: Meeting descends into laughter as mayor leaves mic on in the toilet
‘When nature calls, even the mayor has to go.’
Two men shot dead at US Mohammed cartoon event
The convention was attended by controversial Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders.
# texas - Thursday 16 April, 2015
Texas executes sixth inmate this year after restocking lethal injection drug
Manuel Garza was sentenced to death for killing a police officer in February 2001 with the officer’s own gun.
# texas - Friday 3 April, 2015
This US state trooper's bosses really aren't happy about this photo
The officer was reprimanded for associating with a known criminal.
# texas - Monday 23 March, 2015
Irish Traveller held in US over $1 million insurance fraud murder
Anita Fox, a 72-year-old housekeeper, was stabbed seven times while at work.
# texas - Thursday 26 February, 2015
Enda Kenny is going to perform at a music festival in Texas*
*No word on whether or not he’ll actually sing.
# texas - Monday 23 February, 2015
Conjoined twins successfully separated after 24 hour surgery
Knatalye Hope and Adeline Faith Mata underwent the surgery in Texas Children’s Hospital.
# texas - Wednesday 14 January, 2015
Here's What Happened Today: Wednesday
The furious storm, Vincent Browne’s constituency debates and the ‘survivor’s edition’ of Charlie Hebdo all had people talking today.
Bus carrying 12 prisoners falls from Texas overpass onto train tracks
The Department of Public Safety could not give details on the number of deaths but said it was a fatal incident.
# texas - Wednesday 17 December, 2014
Video shows terrifying scenes inside airplane forced to make emergency landing
Passengers can be heard screaming and praying.