TEXAS POLYGAMIST: Warren Jeffs polygamist leader hospitalized!

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By MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press / Aug 29, 12:38 PM EDT.

HOUSTON (AP) - Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has been hospitalized after not eating or drinking enough since his recent conviction on child sexual assault charges, a prison official said Monday.

The 55-year-old head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is in critical but stable condition, Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons told The Associated Press. It is uncertain how long he will be hospitalized.

Jeffs attorney Emily Detoto told the AP that he was taken to East Texas Medical Center in Tyler on Sunday night. She says he "hasn't been feeling well" but wouldn't elaborate.

A hospital spokeswoman said she could not release any information about whether Jeffs was a patient.

Jeffs was convicted earlier this month of sexually assaulting underage followers he took as spiritual brides.

He had been in a Huntsville prison after a jury decided he should spend life in prison, then was moved last week to the Powledge Unit outside Palestine, about 100 miles southeast of Dallas.

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MEDIAEVAL TEXAS?: Warren Jeffs gets life in prison for sex with underage girls!

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BY LINDSAY WHITEHURST, The Salt Lake Tribune / First published 1 hour ago.

Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs is escorted into the Tom Green County Courthouse, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011, in San Angelo, Texas. Jeffs was found guilty on two counts of sexual assault of a child and could face up to 119 years in prison. The jury is set to hear the closing arguments in the penalty phase of the trial Tuesday. (AP Photo/San Angelo Standard-Times, Patrick Dove).

Jurors deliberated for just under 30 minutes before ordering Jeffs to serve life in prison on one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child and 20 years in prison on one count of sexual assault of a child. They also determined Jeffs must pay a $10,000 fine.

In a closing statement given Tuesday morning, prosecutor Eric Nichols told the jury the 55-year-old Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints leader was a man who "perverted a religion to his own ends" and treated women and children not as human beings but as "property for sexual gratification and child bearing."

"Evidence is this case shows this is not the prosecution of a people, this is a prosecution to protect a people," Nichols said.

Following the sentencing, Nichols said "this justice has been long in coming."

"Rarely in the state of Texas justice system have we ever encountered a person such as Warren Jeffs whose crimes span decades...and involve hundreds of victims," he said.

Reacting to the sentence, former FLDS spokesman Willie Jessop said "everyone in the church has to take responsibility."

"We built this golden calf," he said of Jeffs. "Now we have to decide do we love god or do we love this golden calf."

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Texas town recycling urine due to drought!

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August 7, 2011 / ANI, London / DC.

A town in Texas that is facing a massive drought is set to recycle urine into drinking water.

“When you talk about toilet-to-(water) tank it makes a lot of people nervous and grossed out,” Discovery News quoted Terri Telchik, who works in the city manager’s office in Big Spring, Texas, as saying.

Water for the town’s 27,000 residents comes through the Colorado River Municipal Water District, which has broken ground on a plant to capture treated wastewater for recycling.

“We’re taking treated effluent (wastewater), normally discharged into a creek, and blending it with (traditionally supplied potable) water,” district manager John Grant said.

In essence, the system speeds up what would naturally occur with the flow of discharged water through wetlands, with more pristine results, Grant added.

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Gunman kills self, 5 others at Texas roller skating rink

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AP / The Hindu / GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS, July 24, 2011.

A gunman opened fire at a child’s birthday celebration at a Texas roller skating rink, killing five people, wounding four others and then killing himself as the private party turned to panic and some fled screaming in their skates, police and witnesses say.

Authorities ascribed the gunman’s rampage to an apparent domestic dispute and said no young children or rink employees were killed during the shooting that erupted about 7 p.m. at Forum Roller World in Grand Prairie, about 30 km west of Dallas. Some people at nearby businesses said they watched as adults and children spilled from the rink in horror.

“They just looked terrified,” Cody Poston, a witness, told WFAA-TV, outside the rink that was festooned with birthday decorations. “There are several people crying. The kids were just kind of oblivious.”

Authorities did not immediately release the victims’ names or ages or say how the gunman may have been related to those who died.

Police said the gunman began arguing with a woman in Forum Roller World’s front area where the party was being held, although the rink was not open to the public because the family had rented it for several hours for the private party.

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