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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott Announces 13-year Prison Sentence Against Internet Sexual Predator

Cyber Crimes prosecutions obtain guilty verdict, plea, lengthy sentence

January 24, 2005 -- AUSTIN - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today announced a 13-year prison sentence against a Round Rock man who was convicted of attempting to meet a child for sex via the Internet. In separate child predator cases, Attorney General Abbott’s Cyber Crimes Unit also obtained a plea from a San Antonio airman stationed at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, and a conviction against a Tarrant County man.    » read more »

Texas Governor Perry Requests USDA Disaster Relief Assistance for Colorado, Wilbarger Counties

Jan. 24, 2005 -- AUSTIN - Gov. Rick Perry has requested that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency provide disaster relief assistance for Colorado and Wilbarger counties, where farms and ranches experienced damage due to a series of severe storms that swept across Texas in November. Sustained flooding also has contributed to the damage in these counties.    » read more »

Texas Attorney General Abbott Stops Fraudulent Immigration Consultant Who Claimed To Be A Former Judge

Carlos Carvajal duped consumers in Collin, Hood counties

January 21, 2005 -- AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has halted a fraudulent immigration consultant who charged several Collin and Hood county families hundreds of dollars for unauthorized legal advice and representation in immigration matters. Consumers claim the defendant, Carlos Carvajal, also falsely represented himself as a former immigration judge, and maintained he had connections with the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.    » read more »

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott Announces George Alarick Jones Scheduled For Execution

January 21, 2005 -- (AUSTIN)–Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott provides the following information about 30-year-old George Alarick Jones, who is scheduled for execution after 6 p.m. January 27, 2005, for the 1993 Dallas robbery-murder of 22-year-old Forrest Hall.    » read more »

Attorney General Abbott Protects Consumers, Children From Unsolicited Pornographic Online Pop-up Ads

New Jersey, Georgia companies to stop deceptive billings, services to consumers

January 20, 2005 -- AUSTIN - Just days after suing one of the world’s worst email spammers, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today filed an agreed judgment to protect consumers from being billed for unsolicited online pornography and other material.    » read more »

Flu Hits 'Widespread' Level in Texas

January 12, 2005 -- Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) officials reported today that influenza activity in the state last week rose to the widespread classification for the first time this flu season.    » read more »

DSHS Rabies Vaccine Airdrop Under Way in Fort Stockton

January 16, 2005 -- What: Texas Department of State Health Services Oral Rabies Vaccination Program airdrop of rabies vaccine to immunize gray foxes    » read more »

Texas to Spread Flu Prevention Messages Through Outreach Tour

New Survey: Nearly half of people polled don't wash their hands adequately to reduce the spread of flu and cold germs

January 19, 2005 -- Forty-seven percent of Americans don't wash their hands long enough to reduce the spread of cold and flu germs, according to a new poll released today.    » read more »

Attorney General Abbott Files First Texas Lawsuit For Violation Of E-mail Spam Laws

UT Austin student targeted in probe ranked as one of the world's worst spammers

January 13, 2005 -- HOUSTON - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today filed the state’s first lawsuit against one of the world’s largest spam operations in an effort to crack down on the massive flow of illegal e-mail into Texas consumers’ in-boxes.    » read more »