- Woman fatally shot outside Texas daycare
BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) — A 38-year-old Nederland man has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a woman in the parking lot of the Southeast Texas daycare where she worked.
- Undercover police fatally shoot knife-wielding man
HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston man is dead after undercover police officers say they shot him when he began attacking them with a box cutter.
- Texas deputy arrested on drug charge
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge in McAllen has ordered a South Texas sheriff's deputy held without bond for his alleged role in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
- SEC bars Dallas man from practicing before agency
DALLAS (AP) — A former official with the Securities and Exchange Commission has been barred from representing clients before the agency for a year due to federal conflict of interest violations.
- Feds to monitor primary voting in 3 Texas counties
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department will monitor Tuesday's primary elections in three Houston-area counties to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act.
- Customs officer in Texas arrested for gun buys
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A U.S. customs officer has been arrested in South Texas on federal charges of illegally buying guns for another person.
P&G to add latches to make detergent packs safer
DALLAS (AP) — The maker of Tide Pods will create a new double-latch lid to deter children from accessing and eating the brightly colored detergent packets, a company spokesman said Friday.
Sandusky charity to shut down, transfer programs
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The charity for troubled youths started by Jerry Sandusky more than three decades ago — and through which the retired Penn State assistant football coach met the boys he is charged with sexually abusing — said Friday it is seeking court approval to shut down and transfer its programs to a Texas-based youth ministry that serves abused and neglected children.
Texas farmers use business wile to weather drought
ELKHART, Texas (AP) — Linda Galayda hauled water and flagged down truck drivers to ask about their hay. She sold calves and young cows and made her son leave their East Texas family ranch for a job in San Antonio.
AWOL Muslim soldier guilty in Fort Hood bomb plot
WACO, Texas (AP) — Walking around a gun store one day last summer, the young man never took off his sunglasses as he asked questions about items he piled on the counter — behavior that struck the manager as odd.
- Texas farmers use business wile to weather drought
ELKHART, Texas (AP) — Linda Galayda hauled water and flagged down truck drivers to ask about their hay. She sold calves and young cows and made her son leave their East Texas family ranch for a job in San Antonio.
- P&G to add latches to make detergent packs safer
DALLAS (AP) — The maker of Tide Pods will create a new double-latch lid to deter children from accessing and eating the brightly colored detergent packets, a company spokesman said Friday.
- Calumet Specialty Products plans Indy expansion
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A company that makes oils, gels and other substances for use in food, lubricants and personal care products plans to expand its Indianapolis headquarters, creating up to 48 new jobs by 2015.
- Drilling foes want to buy Wyoming Range leases
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Opponents of natural gas drilling in the Wyoming Range want to buy an energy company's drilling leases, but both sides appear to be waiting for the other to make the first move.
- Ex-Red Sox pitcher's RI gaming firm lays off staff
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's faltering video game company, which received a $75 million loan guarantee to move to Rhode Island in 2010, laid off its entire staff on Thursday.
- Lockheed Martin brings in replacement workers
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Lockheed Martin is putting temporary workers on its Fort Worth aircraft assembly plant to replace striking Machinists' union members.
- US forecasters: 9 to 15 storms in hurricane season
MIAMI (AP) — U.S. forecasters predicted Thursday that this year's Atlantic hurricane season would produce a normal number of about nine to 15 tropical storms, with as many as four to eight of those becoming hurricanes.
- Gulf fishermen reel from seafood troubles
LAFITTE, La. (AP) — Gloom infects the hard-working shrimp and crab docks of this gritty fishing town as the second full year of fishing since BP's catastrophic oil spill kicks into high gear.
- Regulator says ND's oil production could double
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota could double its oil production by 2015 to more than 1 million barrels daily, putting it on par with Texas "if everything goes our way," the state's top oil regulator told industry and government officials Wednesday.
- Astrodome spared? Group suggests overhaul, reuse
HOUSTON (AP) — The Astrodome, a now-empty showplace that has hosted everyone from Elvis Presley to Hurricane Katrina evacuees, should be turned into a multipurpose facility that could spark fresh interest in the city of Houston, a group of consultants recommended Wednesday.
- Ex-QB Brian Johnson still directing Utes offense
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — As a kid, Brian Johnson was so inquisitive he read the warning label inside his football helmet and nearly quit the game.
- AP Source: Bobcats to interview Sloan on Friday
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A person familiar with the situation says the Charlotte Bobcats will interview Hall of Famer Jerry Sloan on Friday for their vacant head coaching position.
- Reno-Tahoe bid for 2022 Winter Games still alive
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Organizers of the Reno-Tahoe Winter Games Coalition say a new revenue-sharing agreement between the International and U.S. Olympic committees was critical to keeping alive their dream of hosting the Winter Games in 2022.
- Robert Gesink take Tour of California lead
MOUNT BALDY, Calif. (AP) — Dutchman Robert Gesink won the difficult seventh stage of the Tour of California on Saturday to take a 46-second lead in the overall standings into the largely ceremonial final leg.
