Texas faces rising cost for illegal immigrant care

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The cost of keeping illegal immigrants in prison and providing them with medical care exceeded $250 million last year in Texas, according to state health and corrections officials. Read More

August 19, 2010 - 3:54pm Add Comment

Man defends his house from burglars

On August 19, 2010, at approximately 12:13 p.m., Longview Officers were called to 505 East Grand Avenue for a “Shots Fired” call. Read More

August 19, 2010 - 3:51pm Add Comment

Dallas chase ends on airport landing field

DALLAS (AP) - The driver of a pickup truck sought in a Dallas carjacking led police on a chase of about an hour that ended beside a runway at Dallas Love Field. Read More

August 19, 2010 - 3:36pm Add Comment

Texas based Dell 2Q net income rises 16 percent

ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) - PC maker Dell says its net income improved 16 percent in the most recent quarter. Read More

August 19, 2010 - 3:28pm Add Comment

Unguarded border bridges could be route into US

ACALA, Texas – On each side of a towering West Texas stretch of the $2.4 billion border fence designed to block people from illegally entering the country, there are two metal footbridges, clear paths into the United States from Mexico. Read More

August 19, 2010 - 1:47pm Add Comment

Jail break in Wichita Falls

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) - Four inmates have broken out of the Wichita County Jail Annex. A statement from Sheriff David Duke says the four men were discovered missing around 7 a.m. Thursday during a routine count of prisoners. Read More

August 19, 2010 - 12:13pm Add Comment

Egg recall tied to salmonella grows to 380 million

ATLANTA (AP) -- Hundreds of people have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to eggs in four states and possibly more, health officials said Wednesday as a company dramatically expanded a recall to 380 million eggs. Read More

August 19, 2010 - 11:47am Add Comment

Tyler says he'll be an 'Idol' judge

NEW YORK (AP) -- A source close to Steven Tyler says the Aerosmith frontman told the source he will be a judge on Fox's "American Idol" next season. Read More

August 19, 2010 - 10:37am Add Comment

Goodbye Iraq: Last US combat brigade heads home

KHABARI CROSSING, Kuwait – A line of heavily armored American military vehicles, their headlights twinkling in the pre-dawn desert, lumbered past the barbed wire and metal gates marking the border between Iraq and Kuwait early Thursday an Read More

August 19, 2010 - 10:33am Add Comment

Mosque debate divides Democrats, especially in NY

NEW YORK – As vulnerable congressional Democrats weigh how to respond to President Barack Obama's statements on Muslims' right to build a mosque near ground zero, those in New York and closest to the controversy are staying silent Read More

August 19, 2010 - 10:27am Add Comment

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