A new Chevrolet Impala was hit by a new Chevrolet Silverado with license plates of Oklahoma.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The annual Texas sales tax break weekend will be Aug. 21-23 as students prepare to return to school and other shoppers also benefit. More...
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The FBI is offering $10,000 for help finding the gun of a Border Patrol agent who was slain last week in a rugged area outside San Diego. More...
TYLER, Texas (AP) - A traffic stop in the Tyler area led to the arrest of two brothers and the seizure of $60,000 in alleged drug money. More...
POST OFFICE MULLS CLOSING HUNDREDS OF OFFICES
WASHINGTON - A pillar of U.S. communities since the nation's founding, the post office is facing the prospect of closings or consolidation of services at hundreds of locations amid a sharp decline in business due to e-mail. More...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Low lake levels in parts of droughtstricken Texas could eventually contribute to better fishing areas. Experts say exposed ground means more vegetation is growing on land that will hopefully be covered by water in a few years. More...
PHOENIX (AP) - The Homeland Security Department wants Sheriff Joe Arpaio to stop arresting illegal immigrants who haven't committed crimes other than crossing the U.S.-Mexico. The thing is, Arpaio doesn't much care. More...
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - Technology, developed in the four years since Hurricane Katrina, didn't necessarily come out of the hurricane but will help with evacuation, power outages and recovery if there is another big storm. More...
By MARTHA MENDOZA Associated Press Writer
MEXICO CITY (AP) A powerful earthquake Monday shook fishing villages along Mexico's Gulf of California and prompted alarm as far away as Phoenix, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The U.S. More...
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Fort Worth police used a Taser device and shot a man who allegedly repeatedly stabbed a female UPS driver at an apartment complex. More...
HOUSTON (AP) - The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the United States grew by 5 this week to 948. Of the rigs running nationwide, 677 were exploring for natural gas and 261 for oil, Houston-based Baker Hughes Inc. More...
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican police say assailants gunned down five men and a woman in a pool hall in the border city of Ciudad Juarez. Two more shooting victims have been hospitalized in serious condition. More...
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A UPS package handler in San Antonio is accused of stealing about $30,000 worth of shipped jewelry by stuffing the bling into his shoes. More...
MEXICO CITY (AP) - President Felipe Calderon says Mexico will start issuing nationwide identity cards for its citizens starting this year, and by 2012 everyone will have one. The cards will carry the bearer's photograph. More...
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) - A judge in Mexico has ordered that a man suspected in the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in California be held during the investigation. More...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The number of Texas school districts rated by the state as academically unacceptable has increased to 87, the highest level ever, according to the Texas Education Agency, which attributed the change to tougher dropout reporting More...