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<title>FEMA Wants Texans to Register for Federal Disaster Assistance </title>
<description><![CDATA[AUSTIN, Texas – Homeowners and renters who sustained property damage as a result of the recent fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas are urged to register with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as they may be eligible for disaster assistance.
The April 19 emergency disaster declaration for the state of Texas has been expanded to allow eligible individuals and households affected by the explosion in McLennan County access to Individual Assistance grants.]]></description>
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<title>Free Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Training</title>
<description><![CDATA[Set for May 24, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. – This is a nuts and bolts training and refresher regarding Chapter 7 consumer bankruptcy filings in the Southern District Bankruptcy Court in Texas. ]]></description>
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<title>FREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR VICTIMS OF WEST, TX EXPLOSION </title>
<description><![CDATA[Attorneys from Lone Star Legal Aid’s Waco office are standing by to assist anyone who has been impacted by the explosion at the West Fertilizer Plant with FREE legal advice. ]]></description>
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<title>LONE STAR LEGAL AID TAPPED BY DOJ FOR MODEL PROGRAM</title>
<description><![CDATA[Houston, Texas – October 3, 2012 – Lone Star Legal Aid (LSLA) is one of six nonprofits in the nation selected by the U.S. Department of Justice to develop a model program for crime victims.  The grant is part of an initiative by the DOJ’s Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) to expand legal assistance and restorative services available to victims of violent and non-violent crime in Texas and nationwide. ]]></description>
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<title>LONE STAR LEGAL AID SELECTED TO LEAD NATIONWIDE DISASTER RESPONSE PROJECT</title>
<description><![CDATA[Houston, Texas – September 27, 2012 – The lessons that Lone Star Legal Aid learned from responding to Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Ike—and a myriad of other natural disasters as well as the BP oil spill—will now be used to help improve disaster response and recovery services nationwide.  Lone Star Legal Aid (LSLA) has just been selected to lead a revamp of the National Disaster Legal Aid website, which provides critical guidance on legal issues to disaster victims as well as to volunteers and attorneys assisting with recovery efforts. ]]></description>
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<title>Lone Star Legal Aid Shares in Award Related to Assistance to Gulf Coast Oil Spill Victims</title>
<description><![CDATA[Lone Star Legal Aid Shares in Award Related to Assistance to Gulf Coast Oil Spill Victims ]]></description>
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<title>LSLA participates in Back to School Fair</title>
<description><![CDATA[LSLA participates in Back to School Fair 
Galveston Convention Center
5600 Seawall Boulevard  
Galveston, TX 77551
Friday, August 17
9 am-4 pm
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<title>Project Full Plate</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Learn about SNAP Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program]]></description>
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<title>LONE STAR LEGAL AID RECEIVES GRANT FROM TEXAS BAR FOUNDATION FOR FORECLOSURE PREVENTION AND HOME PROTECTION</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Houston, Texas – December 8, 2 2011 – Lone Star Legal Aid (LSLA) has received a special grant from the Texas Bar Foundation to further the firm’s efforts to help Harris and Fort Bend County homeowners avoid foreclosure and preserve their homes.]]></description>
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<title>DOJ has begun Investigating Lone Star Legal Aid’s Civil Rights Complaint Against Texas Courts for Denying Access to DV Victim Based on Language</title>
<description><![CDATA[ (Paris, TX) Veterans Day festivities may have now ended, but Lone Star Legal Aid continues our mission to honor veterans and service members by partnering with private attorneys to increase legal services for low-income veterans and service members. It is an unfortunate reality that countless Texas military veterans and their dependents have serious legal problems, and, like other low-income Texans, cannot afford to hire an attorney. To help Texas lawyers serve an often-overlooked population, Lone Star Legal Aid&#8218;s Paris Branch office is conducting a half-day continuing legal education (CLE) event for Texas attorneys. The CLE will take place December 2, 2011 from 1:00-5:00 at the Lamar County Court House located at 119 North Main in Paris.]]></description>
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<title>In Texas, Extending the Miseries of Hurricane Ike</title>
<description><![CDATA[ ANAHUAC, Tex. — The hurricane that swept through this East Texas town battered Shirley August’s house. Pieces of plywood cover the blown-out windows. Window screens, twisted by the winds, resemble abstract art. The shack in the backyard, her father’s old shoe-repair shop, appears ready to topple with one strong shove.]]></description>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/us/extending-the-miseries-from-hurricane-ike.html</link>
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<title>Texas Disaster Assistance Tops $8.6 Million in Three Weeks</title>
<description><![CDATA[ AUSTIN, Texas. -- Just three weeks after a major disaster declaration for the Texas wildfires, state and federal assistance has topped $8.6 million. The aid includes grants to eligible homeowners and renters and low-interest disaster loans for those whose jobs were affected by the wildfires.]]></description>
<link>http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=58502</link>
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