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Posted 03/10/2010 3:22 AM

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) Vicksburg police were looking for a Texan on charges related to a store robbery and shootout.

Police Lt. Bobby Stewart tells the Vicksburg Post that a warrant was issued for 26-year-old Jaime Flores of Houston on three counts of armed robbery and one of aggravated assault.

Stewart says Flores and another man allegedly robbed the store last Thursday before being chased down and one of them killed by the store owner. The body… Click to Read More

Tagged As: Vicksburg Shooting

Posted 03/10/2010 3:00 AM

SULPHUR, La. (AP) Native American dancers from Texas and Slidell will join the Kossa Indian dancers of Sulphur for their 28th Winter Ceremonials this weekend and next.

Program director David Kandik said Kwahadi dancers from Amarillo, Texas, Sahawe from Uvalde, Texas, and the Aabikta from Slidell will join the Kossa dancers at their home theater the Kossa Plaza Museum.

Kandik said the dancers perform at home four times a year.

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Tagged As: Indian Dancers

Posted 03/10/2010 1:05 AM

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Texas' state education board is set to take a vote on a new social studies curriculum that could reverberate in classrooms nationwide.

A three-day meeting beginning Wednesday is the first since primary elections that could push the panel's far-right leanings toward the center. Terms of conservatives who are leaving expire in January.

The board's decisions affect the textbook content around the country because Texas is one of p… Click to Read More

Tagged As: Texas Schools-Social Studies

Posted 03/09/2010 9:54 PM

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Results of the Cash 5 drawing Tuesday night:

Winning numbers drawn: 1-21-25-30-35.

Number matching five of five: 0.

Matching four of five: 56. Prize: $623

Matching three of five: 2,236. Prize: $11

Matching two of five: 22,374. Prize: $2

Next Cash 5 drawing: Wednesday night.

Tagged As: Cash Five Texas

Posted 03/09/2010 6:37 PM

ITALY, Texas (AP) The Texas Department of Public Safety says an off-duty state trooper who was shot at the home of another off-duty trooper is in stable condition.

DPS spokeswoman Lisa Block says that the preliminary investigation indicates that the other trooper was not involved in the shooting Tuesday.

She says Trooper Clint Schumacher, shot at the home in the North Texas town of Italy, was first transported to a Waxahachie hospital, but later… Click to Read More

Tagged As: Trooper Shot

Posted 03/09/2010 6:09 PM

McALLEN, Texas (AP) A former employee at a state facility for the developmentally disabled in Corpus Christi was identified in videos abusing residents on the first day of testimony in his trial.

Twenty-two-year-old Guadalupe Delarosa Jr. faces three counts of injury to the disabled. He and five others were charged after videos of staged fights at the Corpus Christi State School were recovered from another staff member's cell phone last year.

Th… Click to Read More

Tagged As: State School-Fight Club

Posted 03/09/2010 4:24 PM

DALLAS (AP) A federal appeals court has refused an appeal from a Houston man sent to death row for the shooting death of his 19-month-old son.

The rejection Tuesday from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals moves Timothy Wayne Adams a step closer to execution for the February 2002 slaying of his namesake son, Timothy Wayne Adams Jr.

In a brief order Tuesday, the New Orleans-based court says Adams failed to show his constitutional rights were vi… Click to Read More

Tagged As: Texas Execution-Appeal

Posted 03/09/2010 3:20 PM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) A Texas man has pleaded guilty to a felony charge of interference with a flight crew on a plane traveling from Kansas City to Portland.

Federal prosecutors said 34-year-old Jesse Todd Thompson of Lubbock, Texas, was a passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight last September when a flight attendant refused to serve him more alcohol because he appeared intoxicated.

Prosecutors said the flight attendant moved several male passeng… Click to Read More

Tagged As: Flight Crew-Interference

Posted 03/09/2010 4:01 PM

ROSATI, Mo. (AP) A man wanted on a felony warrant in Texas was shot and killed by state troopers in south-central Missouri after reportedly firing on officers along Interstate 44.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol said the shooting happened about 11 a.m. Tuesday between Cuba and St. James after authorities received information about a man sought in Texas.

The patrol says Cuba police and Crawford County deputies located the suspect in Cuba but he… Click to Read More

Tagged As: Troopers-Shooting

Posted 03/09/2010 12:52 PM

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Forecasters say a wetter-than-usual winter and a jet stream dipping deep into Tornado Alley could lead to an active spring for tornadoes.

The 2010 tornado season has had a slow start with one twister reported in California in February. A strong twister ripped through Hammon in western Oklahoma Monday night, destroying five homes.

Greg Carbin of the Storm Prediction Center in Norman said Tuesday there will be an uptick … Click to Read More

Tagged As: Tornado Forecast