Nomaan Merchant

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FILE - In this April 11, 2014, file photo, U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall mingles with fellow military veterans at a weekly "Band of Brothers" happy hour he attends nearly every week in his hometown of Rockwall, Texas. The 91-year-old Texas Republican talks about wanting to fix Obamacare and fight the regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency that are killing jobs. But his vision for the future isn't what is at issue in the Tuesday, May 27 runoff as Hall seeks renomination to the House seat he first won in 1980. The main topic is Hall himself and whether the oldest man serving in Congress should be elected to an 18th term. (AP Photo/Will Weissert, File)

91-year-old congressman stoic in GOP runoff defeat

Nomaan Merchant · May 28, 2014 3:17 am

On Friday, Oct. 18, 2013, Joyce Jackson holds a drawing made by her son Bobby Gerald Bennett, in Dallas. Jackson says Bennett, who is a schizophrenic, wanted to take the drawing with him out of the house leading to an argument that caused her to call police Monday. Surveillance video from a neighbor's camera shows Bennett standing as two officers approach him. Seconds later, Officer Cardan Spencer fires at Bennet who now remains in a hospital intensive care unit. Dallas police have opened a criminal investigation and placed the officer on administrative leave indefinitely. (AP Photo/Nomaan Merchant)

Dallas cop indicted for shooting mentally ill man

Nomaan Merchant · May 6, 2014 4:00 am

FCC: Thousands of hotels don’t offer direct 911

Nomaan Merchant · March 25, 2014 7:53 am

Boy Scouts salute.

Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys

Nomaan Merchant, David Crary · May 23, 2013 4:00 am

Texas town grieves for dead first-responders

Nomaan Merchant, Paul Weber · April 19, 2013 4:00 am

Mourners attend a service at St. Mary's Church of the Assumption Thursday, April 18, 2013, a day after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. The massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. Wednesday night killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Official: 12 bodies recovered after Texas blast

Nomaan Merchant, Christopher Sherman · April 19, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - This undated file photo taken from the Kaufman County, Texas, website shows Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland. McLelland and his wife were found killed in their house, Saturday, March 30, 2013, two months after one of his assistants was gunned down near their office, authorities said. (AP Photo/Kaufman County, File)

Gov. Perry speaks at memorial for slain DA, wife

Nomaan Merchant · April 4, 2013 4:00 am

In this Saturday, March 30, 2013 photo, authorities block off Blarney Stone Road in Forney, Texas, where Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and wife Cynthia McLelland were found dead in their home near Forney, Texas. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Ian C. Bates) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; TV OUT; INTERNET USE BY AP MEMBERS ONLY; NO SALES

Texas district attorney, wife found dead at home

Nomaan Merchant · March 31, 2013 4:00 am

This photo provided by the Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Department shows Kenneth Chaffin. Two heavily armed teenage friends from Oklahoma drove hundreds of miles in a stolen pickup to a small town near Dallas where they were fatally shot during an apparent home invasion, a sheriff's official said Thursday, March 21, 2013. Chaffin, 17, and Dillon King, 18, both of Bethel Acres in Pottawatomie County, Okla., died Wednesday afternoon after exchanging gunfire with the owner of the property in Maypearl, Texas, Pottawatomie County Undersheriff J.T. Palmer said. They may have died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds, Palmer said. (AP Photo/Pottawatomie County Sheriif's Department)

Charges unlikely for man who shot at Okla. teens

Nomaan Merchant · March 21, 2013 4:00 am

Texas official: Bruises found on dead Russian boy

Nomaan Merchant, Betsy Blaney · February 19, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2013, photo Eagle Scout Will Oliver, from left, former Scoutmaster Greg Bourke, former den leader Jennifer Tyrrell and Eric Andresen, right, a parent of a gay scout deliver boxes filled with a petition to the statue in front of the Boy Scouts of America headquarters in Irving, Texas. The Boy Scouts of America's policy excluding gay members and leaders could be up for a vote as soon as Wednesday, when the organization's national executive board meets behind closed doors under intense pressure from several sides. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

Scouts delay decision on admitting gays until May

Nomaan Merchant, David Crary · February 6, 2013 5:00 am

Judge rules against Texas in women’s care dispute

Nomaan Merchant · December 21, 2012 6:40 pm