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Funeral Wednesday for slain US missionaries
LEWISVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Funeral services for an American missionary couple murdered in Mexico have been set for Wednesday at their home church in suburban Dallas.John Casias and his wife, Wanda, were found dead Tuesday at their home in a village ou ...

Police clear out Occupy Austin camp

AUSTIN -- Occupy Austin's nearly 4-month-long campout in front of City Hall has been ended with police clearing out the demonstrators.
At least seven people were arrested and protesters were ousted Friday night, a day after a new city policy took ...

Horses aid in veteran therapy
By DAVID TARRANT
The Dallas Morning News
KELLER -- Just blocks from suburban sprawl sits an oasis of rolling green pastures and grazing horses, where seldom is heard a discouraging word.
Or so it must seem to the war veterans who arrive here for ...

Agents put in overtime on border, but arrests down

Border Patrol agents have racked up daily overtime at a cost of about $1.4 billion in the past six years while the number of arrests of illegal border crossers has fallen to the lowest level in nearly 40 years, an Associated Press analysis of agenc ...

District map dispute has state in limbo

SAN ANTONIO -- The once-a-decade fight over political boundaries in Texas has been so frenetic that a Democrat who bolted for the GOP saw his state House district redrawn solidly blue, opted against re-election, then got new hope from the U.S. Supr ...

Dallas teen lied about identity

DALLAS -- A Dallas teenager who was deported to South America under a false name never expressed concern during jailhouse phone calls that she was being misidentified as an illegal immigrant from Colombia.
The more than two dozen recorded telephon ...

Rain washes away D-FW drought

HOUSTON -- The rain that started trickling into Texas in the fall may finally be making a dent in Dallas, but the rest of the massive state is still a long way off from being out of a historic drought, and climate experts are warning against any pr ...

Texas Democrats newly skeptical over April primary

SAN ANTONIO -- Democrats suing the state over Republican-drawn voting maps expressed new doubts Wednesday that Texas could salvage an April primary as the deadline for reaching a temporary compromise creeps closer.
The Texas attorney general's off ...

Reactions heated on Planned Parenthood-Komen rift

NEW YORK -- Planned Parenthood said Wednesday that it received more than $400,000 from 6,000 donors in the 24 hours after news broke that its affiliates would be losing grants for breast screenings from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer ...

Oil and gas industry says 'fracking' a nasty slur

NEW YORK -- A different kind of F-word is stirring a linguistic and political debate as controversial as what it defines.
The word is "fracking" -- as in hydraulic fracturing, a technique long used by the oil and gas industry to free oil and gas f ...

Surviving the drought in style
LUBBOCK -- Texans watched disaster unfold slowly last year as a historic drought took a withering toll across the region.Trees died by the millions, lawns and landscaping wilted, lakes shrank and wildlife struggled. Water bills shot up. All of this, ...

Obama's surprising response
By AMAN BATHEJA
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
FORT WORTH -- Jennifer Wedel was all ready Monday afternoon to challenge President Barack Obama on an issue that hits her where she lives: her engineer husband's unemployment.
"When you're given the opportu ...

Texas town running out of water

AUSTIN -- A Central Texas village that's become the state's first community to run out of water due to a punishing drought will have water trucked in by the Lower Colorado River Authority, officials said Monday.
Agency spokeswoman Clara Tuma said ...

Texas redistricting talks reportedly stalled

SAN ANTONIO -- Negotiations between minority groups and Texas officials in a lengthy clash over new political districts appeared stalled Monday as both sides prepared to argue in Washington over whether the Republican-drawn maps violate the federal ...

Veterinarians look to pets to advance cancer research
Houston Chronicle
HOUSTON -- Leading Texas veterinarians are mobilizing to enlist pets in the testing of experimental cancer therapies, a potential benefit to not just dogs and cats but people.
The veterinarians recently set up a registry they hope ...

Ranchers and farmers pitch in to help Gulf Coast

TIVOLI -- For decades, farmers and fishermen along the Gulf of Mexico watched as their sensitive ecosystem's waters slowly got dirtier and islands eroded, all while the country largely ignored the destruction.
It took BP PLC's well blowing out in ...