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Posted 03/13/2010 12:37 PM

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) A parishioner accused of stabbing a south Texas Roman Catholic priest nearly 20 times has been sentenced to 12 years in prison as part of a plea deal.

David Rodriguez was sentenced Friday on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon about a week before he was to stand trial in San Patricio County.

The Rev. Shaji Varghese didn't know Rodriguez was being sentenced when he showed up at the court Friday to drop o… Click to Read More

Tagged As: Priest Stabbed

Posted 03/13/2010 12:42 PM

LONDON (AP) Two former astronauts say they are disappointed with the U.S. government's decision to cancel NASA's moon landing program.

Eugene Cernan, part of the 1972 Apollo 17 mission, said he's disheartened he's the last man to have walked on the moon and "I thought we'd (have) gone back long before now."

Cernan said the U.S. has a responsibility to maintain leadership in space exploration, and he hopes people will be back on the moon "sooner … Click to Read More

Tagged As: Britain-US Astronauts

Posted 03/13/2010 10:55 AM

DALLAS (AP) Census forms are going out soon, and federal workers face their usual Texas challenge of accounting for immigrants who would rather not be noticed.

It's a problem with every decade's census in the nation's second most populous state, which shares a 2,000-mile frontier with Mexico. It's not exclusively a border issue though.

In fact, U.S. Census Bureau officials also are targeting areas away from the border where large pockets of "har… Click to Read More

Tagged As: Census-Texas

Posted 03/13/2010 10:37 AM

REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) The border city of Reynosa, Mexico, has escaped the worst of its country's bloody drug war for years. But now the bodies are piling up and once-busy streets are empty after dark.

The crumbling of an alliance between two Mexican drug gangs has plunged the 200-mile stretch of border into violence. A U.S. anti-drug official tells The Associated Press it is also raising fears of a new front in the drug war.

In Mexican border cit… Click to Read More

Tagged As: Drug War-New Front

Posted 03/13/2010 10:22 PM

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

Winning numbers drawn: 8-13-23-26-35.

Number matching five of five: 2. Prize: $12,221

Winning ticket purchased in: Sugar Land, Humble

Matching four of five: 97. Prize: $114

Matching three of five: 2,580. Prize: $10

Matching two of five: 25,527. Prize: $2

Next Cash 5 drawing: … Click to Read More

Tagged As: Cash Five Texas

Posted 03/12/2010 7:21 PM

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) A former pastor of Louisville's Highview Baptist Church who was a strong backer of the conservative shift at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has died. The Rev. William L. Hancock was 73.

The Courier-Journal reports Hancock died Wednesday in Fort Worth, Texas, where his family said he was active in a Southern Baptist church after leaving Louisville.

The newspaper said Hancock confessed an extramarital affair and resigne… Click to Read More

Tagged As: Obit-Hancock

Posted 03/12/2010 5:00 PM

McALLEN, Texas (AP) Gov. Rick Perry says state and federal authorities are trying to get answers regarding a Mexican military helicopter that crossed the Texas-Mexico border late Wednesday afternoon.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection had confirmed that a Mexican military helicopter crossed the border near Falcon Dam in Zapata County before returning to Mexico without landing.

Calls for comment to the Mexican Navy were not returned. The Mexican … Click to Read More

Tagged As: Border Incursion

Posted 03/12/2010 3:46 PM

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Gov. Rick Perry has appointed former Texas Secretary of State Phil Wilson to the committee that oversees the state's $3 billion cancer research fund.

Wilson was named Friday to the oversight committee of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. The fund was established by Texas voters in 2007 and is the nation's second largest pot of cancer research funding behind the National Cancer Institute.

The fund for cance… Click to Read More

Tagged As: Texas-Cancer Research

Posted 03/12/2010 2:55 PM

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Three watchdog groups are asking the Texas Supreme Court to overturn a lower court's ruling involving a public records request.

Public Citizen, the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas and Texans for Public Justice filed a "fried of the court" brief Friday in the case involving the pharmacy benefits group Caremark, a coalition of labor unions and the state.

The watchdog groups said they disagree with lower court rulings … Click to Read More

Tagged As: FOI-Requester Lawsuit

Posted 03/12/2010 2:38 PM

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) The Texas Supreme Court has thrown out a $15.8 million civil trial judgment involving a wreck that killed four members of a family in northern Texas.

The court ruled unanimously Friday that lawyers improperly introduced evidence that a gravel truck driver blamed for the 2002 accident in Wise County was an illegal immigrant.

The justices said that was an attempt to inflame jurors' passions against the driver and his employer, T… Click to Read More

Tagged As: Truck Lawsuit