AUSTIN, Texas - U.S. Senate hopeful and Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst had many of his state's brightest political stars in his corner.
Gov. Rick Perry, baseball icon Nolan Ryan, and a virtual directory of statewide offices: comptroller, land commissioner, agricultural commissioner, a railroad commissioner and a parade of state senators all backed Dewhurst.
Tea party darling Ted Cruz countered with outside firepower, especially former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
In the end, the big names from faraway places generated a fervor Texas' home-turf big guns could not. Texans overwhelmingly chose Cruz as the Republican nominee to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
But the race wasn't so much a question of outsiders trouncing Texan political muscle as it was voters' angry rebuke of politics as usual - even the homegrown kind.
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State lawmakers are hoping to keep children safer in the car by making it easier for prosecutors to file criminal charges against a driver who does not have a child properly strapped into a car or booster.
State lawmakers are hoping to keep children safer in the car by making it easier for prosecutors to file criminal charges against a driver who does not have a child properly strapped into a car or booster.
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