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Mexico: Rivera's plane hit with 'terrible' impact
The plane carrying Mexican-American music superstar Jenni Rivera plunged almost vertically from more than 28,000 feet and hit the ground in a ...
Mexico tests DNA from Jenni Rivera plane crash
Mexican authorities were performing DNA tests Tuesday on remains believed to belong to Mexican-American music superstar Jenni Rivera and six other ...
NTSB: singer Rivera dead in Mexican plane crash
U.S. authorities confirmed Monday that Jenni Rivera, a U.S.-born singer whose soulful voice and openness about her personal troubles made her a ...
Texas asks FBI to investigate helicopter shooting
Texas state police said Friday they have asked for a federal investigation of a chase in which a trooper fired on a fleeing pickup truck from a ...
Texas trooper in chopper shooting returns to work
The Texas trooper who fired on a fleeing pickup truck from a helicopter near the U.S.-Mexico border, killing two illegal immigrants hiding in the bed, ...
Diplomat: Texas agents should have seen people
Texas law enforcement agents were close enough to a pickup truck to see it was carrying people, not drugs, before one opened fire, killing two ...
2 dead after flying trooper fires at vehicle
Three people were found wounded, two fatally, in a vehicle that was fired upon by a Texas state trooper in a helicopter. The incident happened ...
Beckett sues pipeline builder over ocelot habitat
Not even the legal equivalent of a fastball under the chin could stop a Texas pipeline builder from clearing acres of brush that Los Angeles Dodgers ...
A star Rockets rookie faces his fear of flying
Royce White couldn't wait any longer. Last weekend, just before the Houston Rockets opened training camp, he called his agent and told him he had a ...
APNewsBreak: US, Mexico disagree over border fence
An agency that monitors the U.S.-Mexico boundary is agreeing to a U.S. proposal to build border fence segments in a South Texas flood plain, a move ...
Official: Tire likely caused deadly Texas crash
A pickup truck's front tire that apparently had come apart was likely the cause of a weekend crash on a rural South Texas highway that claimed its ...
Authorities trying to ID 14 killed in Texas crash
With little more than photographs and fingerprints, authorities were trying to identify 14 suspected illegal immigrants who were killed when a pickup ...
Despite a few jitters, Batman fans pack theaters
The three 18-year-olds, friends since middle school, are about to go off separately to college this fall. But on Sunday, these avid fans of the Batman ...
Relative says dad, sons shot ICE agent out of fear
A father and two sons shot at a federal immigration agent parked outside their home along the Texas border this week because they were afraid someone ...
Texas man charged in death of mom of slain boys
A Texas man accused of fatally shooting two boys, including his 1-year-old son, in a hotel room also was charged Thursday in their mother's killing.
2 boys shot in Texas hotel; mom believed killed
Hours after a man fatally shot one of his girlfriend's sons and critically injured another in a South Texas hotel room as police tried to check on the ...
Cartel money laundering cases tough but critical
When it comes to arresting drug traffickers and dismantling organized crime, the investigation into a U.S. horse racing operation allegedly laundering ...
Mexico drug war's latest toll: 49 headless bodies
Police found 49 mutilated bodies scattered in a pool of blood near the border with the U.S., a region where Mexico's two dominant drug cartels are ...