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FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2014 file photo, Texas Sen. Wendy Davis smiles as she heads to speak to reporters after an education roundtable meeting in Arlington, Texas. Davis is expected to face Republican Greg Abbott in the Texas governor’s race. Battleground Texas, a major Democratic effort aimed at turning one of the reddest states blue, will face its first test in the Democratic primary on March 4. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Surprises, runoffs likely in Texas primary races

By PAUL J. WEBER - Associated Press

File - In the Feb. 12, 2014 file photo, Victor Holmes, left, and partner Mark Phariss, right, arrive at the U.S. Federal Courthouse, in San Antonio, where a federal judge is expected to hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging Texas' ban on same-sex marriage. Republican attorneys general across the U.S. are fighting court rebukes of same-sex marriage bans in their states. But Texas' Greg Abbott is doing so against extraordinary personal ties: Phariss, one of the gay men challenging the law here is an old friend. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Gay marriage fight pits Texas AG vs. gay friend

By PAUL J. WEBER - Associated Press

What’s next in Texas’ gay marriage battle

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Gay couples from left, Cleopatra De Leon and Nicole Dimetman, and Mark Phariss and Victor Holmes, give a news conference in San Antonio on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014 after U.S. Federal Judge Orlando Garcia declared a same-sex marriage ban in deeply conservative Texas unconstitutional. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Jerry Lara)

Texas files notice to appeal gay marriage ruling

By CHRIS TOMLINSON - Associated Press

Abbott: Nugent ‘rightly apologized’ for Obama slur

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FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2014 file photo Texas gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott, left, visits with supporters during a stop in Denton, Texas, to promote early voting with Rocker Ted Nugent, wearing cowboy hat, center. Abbott, the leading Republican candidate to succeed Gov. Rick Perry, remained silent about Nugent Friday, Feb. 21, after taking heat this week for inviting the brash gun-rights guitarist to appear with him at campaign events. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Ron Baselice)

Nugent backlash reveals rare misstep for Texas GOP

By PAUL J. WEBER - Associated Press

** FILE ** Rocker Ted Nugent introduces Texas gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott during a stop, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, in Denton, Texas, to promote early voting. Wendy Davis is the Democratic opponent. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Ron Baselice)

Rand Paul calls on Ted Nugent to apologize for Obama jab

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Perry condemns Nugent’s ‘subhuman mongrel’ remark

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PRUDEN: Will Nugent’s loose lips sink Abbott’s campaign ship in Texas?

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this file photo, rock musician Ted Nugent, left, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, right, speak during an appearance on national television in Crawford, Texas, Saturday, June 4, 2005. Hours after Gov. Rick Perry kicked off his second full term in office on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007, rocker Ted Nugent helped him celebrate at a black-tie gala, but not all attendees were pleased by the performance. Using machine guns as props, Nugent appeared onstage as the final act of the inaugural ball wearing a cut-off T-shirt emblazoned with the Confederate flag and shouting offensive remarks about non-English speakers, according to people who were in attendance. (AP Photo)

Rick Perry slams Ted Nugent for calling Obama a ‘subhuman mongrel’

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Longtime rocker Ted Nugent speaks to a crowd of Greg Abbott supporters during a campaign stop in Wichita Falls, Texas on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. Abbott welcomed salty-tongued rocker Ted Nugent to his campaign for Texas governor on Tuesday but claimed ignorance about inflammatory remarks his polarizing surrogate has made on immigration and women. (AP Photo/Wichita Falls Times Record News, Torin Halsey)

Ted Nugent, pre-campaign trail: Obama’s a ‘subhuman mongrel’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Recent editorials from Texas newspapers

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Gay marriage battle could linger for next Texas AG

By PAUL J. WEBER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2014 file photo, Texas Sen. Wendy Davis speaks at an education roundtable meeting in Arlington, Texas. Davis, who has said she would support expanding gun rights, now says that includes allowing concealed handgun license holders to openly carry their weapons in public. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

APNewsBreak: Wendy Davis supports open carry law

By JIM VERTUNO - Associated Press

Republican AG, comptroller hopefuls square off

By WILL WEISSERT - Associated Press

Texas AG asks court to rethink cyberstalking law

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Judge sinks ‘Can Ban’ on Hill Country rivers

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Democratic candidate for Texas governor Wendy Davis takes part in a interview, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, in Austin, Texas. Davis promised to veto a state income tax to pay for public schools and to expand where people may carry their handguns in the interview. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Wendy Davis tied to video that mocks wheelchair-bound Greg Abbott

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

This handout image provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Edgar Tamayo. Attorneys for the Mexican national on Texas death row for the slaying of a Houston police officer hoped a civil suit, challenging what they argued is an unfair and secretive clemency process in the nation’s most active capital punishment state would block the inmate’s scheduled execution this week. Tamayo, 46, was set for lethal injection Wednesday evening, Jan. 22, 2014, in Huntsville. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)

Mexican national’s lawyers want execution halted

By MICHAEL GRACZYK - Associated Press

Texas school finance case heads back to court

By WILL WEISSERT - Associated Press