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Regulators to require inspections after jet engine explosion
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — U.S. airline regulators said Wednesday that they will order inspections on engine fan blades like the one involved in fatal failure that killed a woman in a plane that made an emergency landing in Philadelphia. The Federal A...
Jury hears Bill Cosby's graphic testimony about accuser
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Jurors on Tuesday got a sense of Bill Cosby's view of consent from graphic deposition testimony in which the comedian described reaching an area "somewhere between permission and rejection" during what he claims was a prior s...
FBI: Probe shows no evidence of attack in border agent death
DALLAS (AP) — FBI officials said the investigation into the November death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent has yielded no evidence that there was a "scuffle, altercation or attack" more than two months after President Donald Trump and others used t...
Cautious Texas among last states to OK medical marijuana
MANCHACA, Texas (AP) — When California rings in the new year with the sale of recreational pot for the first time, Texas will be tiptoeing into its own marijuana milestone: a medical cannabis program so restrictive that doubts swirl over who will eve...
AP source: Authorities believe border agent may have fallen
DALLAS (AP) — Investigators believe a border patrol agent who died in West Texas after suffering extensive injuries to his head and body may have fallen down a 14-foot (4-meter) culvert, and his partner, who radioed for help, has no memory of what h...
Texas church shooting victims honored, funeral held
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — Two white hearses carrying the bodies of a couple killed in last weekend's Texas church shooting were followed by a long procession of vehicles Saturday evening that avoided passing the church where more than two d...
Body found is missing Texas toddler; father says she choked
DALLAS (AP) — The father of a missing toddler whose body was found in a culvert under a road in suburban Dallas now says the girl choked to death on milk in the family's garage after earlier claiming she wandered off in the middle of the night w...
Police: Texas Tech student questioned hours before shooting
DALLAS (AP) — Lubbock police officers questioned a Texas Tech University student about a stolen gun hours before he shot and killed a campus police officer, authorities said Thursday. Hollis Daniels III was driving a car that matched the d...
Relatively low Harvey death toll is 'astounding' to experts
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Harvey has so far killed at least 70 people who drowned in floods, got crushed by trees and died during power outages — a surprisingly low toll that experts say reflects heeded warnings, swift action by first responders and vol...
Texas drivers rush to fill gas tanks as pump prices rise
DALLAS (AP) — Drivers lined up at gas pumps in parts of Texas Thursday as more stations ran out of gas and prices rose steeply in response to Hurricane Harvey's impact on Gulf Coast refineries. At least two major pipelines — one that ships gasoline a...
Gas prices surge higher as drivers rush to fill their tanks
ATLANTA (AP) — Gasoline prices rose several cents overnight amid continuing fears of shortages in Texas and other states in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey's strike on the Gulf Coast. The national average for a gallon of regular gas rose in one d...
Ghoulish online game urges young people to end their lives
DALLAS (AP) — The family of a Texas teen who hanged himself says their son was involved in a ghoulish online game that calls on participants to complete a series of tasks before taking their own lives, and some schools are warning parents about t...
A year after slayings, Dallas police train in 'mindfulness'
DALLAS (AP) — Only hours after the ambush that killed five Dallas law enforcement officers, mental health experts began thinking ahead, searching for ways to ease the long-term effects of the attack on the men and women who patrol the nation's ninth-...
Texas police officer faces murder charge in teen's death
DALLAS (AP) — A white Texas police officer has been charged with murder in the shooting of a black teenager for which the officer was fired, according to an arrest warrant issued Friday. The warrant for Roy Oliver, a former officer in the Dallas s...
Texas DA says she was required to release shooting video
DALLAS (AP) — A North Texas district attorney denied a claim Wednesday that her office unlawfully released a video showing a police officer shooting a black man as he walked away. Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney Sharen Wilson responded t...
Texas court grants appeal after 35 years without conviction
DALLAS (AP) — A Texas inmate who was imprisoned for 35 years while waiting for a new trial after a court overturned his murder conviction should be set free, an appellate court ruled. Jerry Hartfield was finally convicted again in 2015 in the 1976 k...
White policeman suspended but not fired after video incident
DALLAS (AP) — A white Texas policeman was suspended without pay for 10 days, but will not be fired, after an incident in which he was caught on video wrestling a black woman and her daughter to the ground, Fort Worth Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald a...
Indictment: Ex-judge exchanged nude photos for tossed cases
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A former Arkansas judge accused of giving lighter sentences to defendants in exchange for nude photos and sexual acts was arrested Monday on federal fraud and bribery charges. Former Cross County District Court Judge Joseph B...
Dallas police squelch critics, questions about sniper attack
DALLAS (AP, Aug. 28, 2016) – The day after five Dallas officers were killed by a sniper, the city's police chief described the men as "guardians" of democracy, praising them for protecting the freedom to protest at a large demonstration against p...