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Texans give extensions to Smith, Kubiak
The Houston Texans announced contract extensions Thursday for general manager Rick Smith and coach Gary Kubiak, rewarding them for taking the team to ...
US Anti-Doping Agency charges Armstrong
Lance Armstrong is facing more doping allegations just a few months after he thought he had finally put them to rest. Although federal investigators ...
Texas man in stand-your-ground case could get life
A retired Houston-area firefighter faces up to life in prison after a jury convicted him of murder for gunning down his unarmed neighbor during a ...
NASA chief views history-making SpaceX capsule
Marred by just a few scorch marks from its re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere, the world's first commercial supply spacecraft to visit the ...
Texas jury convicts man in stand-your-ground case
A retired Houston-area firefighter was convicted of murder Wednesday for gunning down his unarmed neighbor during a dispute over a noisy house party, ...
Okla. horse ranch in cartel case raised suspicions
If associates of a reputed Mexican drug cartel leader had wanted to lay low while laundering money at an American horse ranch, they seemed to do ...
100-year-old Battleship Texas springs massive leak
Children shimmy up the barrels of massive cannons on the upper decks of the 100-year-old Battleship Texas, focused on firing at an imaginary enemy and ...
Chavez-Lee prepared for middleweight title fight
The promoters for the middleweight title fight between WBC champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and challenger Andy Lee in El Paso, Texas, are certain that ...
California's prison population eclipsed by Texas
Everything is bigger in Texas, the saying goes, and that is now also true of its prison system. California used to have the nation's largest state ...
JetBlue passengers sue airline over pilot scare
Ten passengers filed a lawsuit Wednesday against JetBlue Airways, claiming they feared for their lives when a pilot had to be physically restrained ...
Control over ex-tycoon Stanford's assets at issue
As former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford's criminal case gets ready to wind down with his sentencing Thursday for a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, the ...
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 ...
JetBlue pilot's unraveling baffles friends
No one recalls JetBlue Airways captain Clayton Osbon coming unhinged before. Not the airline that let him fly for 12 years, the neighbors in his ...
JetBlue suspends captain who disrupted flight
A JetBlue captain who yelled about a bomb and urged passengers to pray on a Las Vegas-bound flight has been suspended, the airline said Wednesday.