The Eldorado Success newspaper

AUSTIN – Five additional states have announced that they will join the original 13 states’ legal challenge to the newly enacted federal health care legislation. Indiana, North Dakota, Mississippi, Nevada and Arizona will join Texas and 12 other states’ legal action, which was filed on March 23 in federal court.

“No public policy goal – no matter how important or well-intentioned – can be allowed to trample the protections and rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution,” Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said.

AUSTIN- One of the final reporting steps that Texas oil and gas operators must take to complete an oil, natural gas or service well is now available online through the Commission’s website at www.rrc.state.tx.us, the three Texas Railroad Commissioners announced today.

“In our continuing efforts to streamline and make the agency more efficient at helping Texas remain the nation’s leading oil and natural gas producer, I am proud to announce that operators can now file their completion reports online with the Railroad Commission,” said Chairman Victor Carrillo.

ROCKWALL – A Garland man has pled guilty to stuffing a lead weight into a bass during a fishing tournament last fall, the outcome of an investigation by a Dallas-based Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game warden.

Forty-five-year-old Robby Rose , a competitive bass fisherman, entered a guilty plea in 382nd State District Court April 13 to the state jail felony offense of attempted theft over $20,000 but less than $100,000.  Judge Brett Hall sentenced Rose to five years probation, 15 days in jail and loss of his fishing license for the duration of his probation.