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Reports on the allegations by former executive Maureen Castaneda that Enron employees were shedding documents at the company's Houston, Texas offices. Action taken by the company in response to the claim; Role of evidence of document destruction in Congressional and criminal inquiries; Description of the shredding by Castaneda on television.

Announces the closure of Abitibi-Consolidated Inc.'s paper mills in Lufkin, Texas and Port-Alfred, Quebec.

Relates that `The Fort Worth Star-Telegram' in Fort Worth, Texas transferred Todd Camp, the openly gay editor of a weekly children's section. The paper's apology for failing to oversee Camp's contributions to `The Texas Triangle,' a weekly homosexual newspaper; The reader complaint which preceded Camp's transfer; Actions by the American Family Association, which has actively opposed homosexual rights.

Cites the reasons of U.S. Representative Dick Armey for promoting a legislation that would force the Belo Corp., parent company of the 'Dallas Morning News,' to divest one of its media properties in Texas.

Reports that Cox Newspapers of Atlanta, Georgia purchased six weekly newspapers in central Texas from Westward Communications.

Reports that Dallas-based Kimberly-Clark Corporation says that it will eliminate 6,000 jobs and sell as many as 12 plants in plans to reap the benefits of its $9.4 billion acquisition of the Scott Paper Company. What the Kimberly Corporation does; How the cut will affect Kimberly's work force; Kimberly plants to be sold. INSET: For sale..

HOUSTON -- Arson investigators have been called in to scrutinize a fire that destroyed the warehouse where all of Harris County's voting machines were stored. The blaze left county officials scrambling to find enough equipment to hold an election in the nation's third-most-populous county. Election officials have come up with emergency plans to buy new electronic voting machines, borrow hundreds from other counties and use paper ballots as well. Still, the destruction of nearly 10,000 voting machines in the fire last month has raised fears here that voters will face long lines or other disruptions at polling stations. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A legal dispute that had riveted the chess world and hobbled the United States Chess Federation, the game's governing body, has been settled -- mostly. Papers filed on Friday in Federal District Court in Lubbock, Tex., stipulate that two former federation board members, the federation and some of its other members are dismissing almost all of their claims and counterclaims. The dispute began with accusations over Internet postings and evolved into a series of lawsuits in several states. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The chief judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, who was accused of judicial misconduct and incompetence last month for refusing to keep court offices open to receive a last-minute death-penalty appeal, denied the charges in papers filed Tuesday. The action against the judge, Sharon Keller, was initiated by the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct. It could result in her removal from office after a hearing. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Roger Clemens asked a United States judge to let a Texas jury decide if his former trainer slandered him with accusations that he used performance-enhancing drugs. In court papers filed after hours Thursday in Houston, Clemens urged United States District Judge Keith Ellison to reject the trainer Brian McNamee's motion to either throw out the defamation case or try it in New York. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents the author's comment about U.S. President George W. Bush's plans to build a presidential library at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. The author views that the university should accept the papers and build the library and school. Bush is one of the most controversial presidents, however, in one of the most difficult of times.

Reports on conflicting political loyalties in President George W. Bush's hometown of Crawford, Texas. Response to W. Leon Smith, editor in chief of The Lone Star Iconoclast, and Mayor Robert Campbell, both of whom have endorsed Senator Kerry; Arrival of canceled subscriptions and hate mail at the newspaper; Response to a September 29, 2004 editorial called "Kerry Will Restore American Dignity"; Hopes of the mayor to get the Bush presidential papers for the Baylor University library nearby; Strong support for Bush in the 2000 election and among businesses, banks, and many of the townspeople.

This paper reports about the 24 year sentence given to ex-executive of Dynergy Inc. located in Houston, Texas. A federal judge Sim Lake, has sentenced a former middle level executive at Dynergy Inc. to more than 24 years in prison on March 25, 2004 for his role in secretive project to disguise the company's financial difficulties. The executive Jim Olis, a former tax planning official at Dynergy Inc., risked the imprisonment after deciding to go to trial on charges of helping to device a plan in 2001 called Project Alpha. That plan disguised a $300 million loan to Dynergy Inc.

Reports on the preservation of the lives of inmates resulting from court inaction in Texas. Failure of resolving the legal issues involved in death penalty; Submission of the appeal papers to a panel of the Fifth Circuit; Assessment of court judgments.

States that terrorist Osama bin Laden pictures have become the paper target of choice at the DFW Gun Range in Dallas, Texas.

Reports that Texas has turned to the courts to block a faction of the Ku Klux Klan called the United Knights of the Ku Klux Klan from joining a statewide anti-litter program. What the clean-up involves; What the group will be entitled to if accepted; Information on papers filed by Attorney General Dan Morales against the Klan.