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At least he can bathe himself and get hygiene products, but Greg Burleson is banned from getting extra food through his commissary privilege and his mattress has been taken away for three months, he is banned from having visitors and making phone calls for eight months. His personal items were taken away from him. Burleson was convicted in the first rigged Bunkervile Standoff trial last year and sentenced to 68 years and three months in prison. Evidence proving his innocence uncovered in the third trial of key defendants including Bundy family members led to dismissal of those charges because of...

Texas students sue to carry purses decorated with Confederate flag By Martha DellerMcClatchy Newspapers(MCT)DALLAS - Two Burleson High School students filed a federal lawsuit Friday against the Burleson school district over a year-old incident in which school officials denied them the right to carry Confederate battle flag purses to school.Attorneys for the Southern Legal Resource Center prepared the lawsuit on behalf of Aubrie Michelle McAllum and Ashley Paige Thomas, who contend their constitutional rights were violated in January 2006 when school officials prevented them from carrying their new purses to school.The teens were not punished for carrying the purses,...

11 49 am School district teaches students to fight back 10/6/2006 2:52 PM By: Associated Press BURLESON, Texas -- With school defense in mind, the Burleson school district is training students and teachers to fight back with everything from books to scissors. Officials say the “critical incident response'' training for teachers and students instructs them to disrupt attackers by barraging them with classrooms supplies. Dallas-Fort Worth television station KTVT reports that about 600 teachers in the Burleson Independent School District have been trained in response tactics. The district recently received a $95,000 federal grant to continue the training. Lisa Crane,...

In the beginning ... No, not that beginning. In the beginning, 14 Burleson and Crowley ninth-graders prayed in a schoolyard. That was in 1990. Now, 2 million teen-agers and children join in the annual youth prayer named See You at the Pole. Now, Terry McConnell is a Fort Worth firefighter. In 1990, he was in the original Baptist youth group that prayed late one Saturday night on the steps of what was then Burleson Junior High School. On Wednesday morning, he was at school again. This time, he was taking his two sons to pray for the first time at...

DETROIT- A Texas man was charged with interfering with a Northwest Airlines crew during a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Robert L. Starks, 38, was arrested when the plane landed Monday in Detroit. The oil worker from Burleson, Texas, became boisterous two hours into the eight-hour flight, cursed passengers and the flight crew and tried to enter the cockpit, according to an affidavit by FBI agents Angela Ryan and Terry Booth. The captain considered diverting the flight to Iceland, but changed his mind when Starks fell asleep, according to the affidavit. The agents said Starks admitted to using alcohol and...

Man guilty in '01 rape Jury takes 25 minutes to return verdict 12/05/2002 By JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News FORT WORTH - A Tarrant County jury took 25 minutes Wednesday morning to convict a Cleburne man of sexually assaulting a mother while four children slept nearby. The jury of eight women and four men found Manuel Salamanca Jr., 31, a former hospital lab worker, guilty in the Aug. 9, 2001, attack. A sentencing hearing, which included testimony from three other rape victims, began Wednesday in the 213th District Court. Jurors on Thursday are expected to decide on...