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The first week of suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial in the Senate ended with his former lead law enforcement officer testifying an Austin developer alleged to have bribed Paxton constructed a “conspiracy theory” that federal officials altered a search warrant for his property, the Austin American- Statesman reported.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND HARRIET HALL Benjamin Franklin Hall, eighth child of John Cunningham and Mary Moore Hall, was born May 16, 1829 in Green County, Georgia. In 1830 the family moved to Troupe County, Georgia where they remained for several years. John C’s occupation was farming. Texas was a new State and there was a movement toward Texas at this time, James, and W. H. (Bee), two of the older boys had come to Texas and in correspondence with the family had recommended Cass County.

One of the world’s oldest and most hallowed freshwater fishing records has likely been crushed by a monster alligator gar caught and released recently at Sam Rayburn Reservoir by Art Weston of Union, Kentucky.