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Broker gets 17-year sentence in Texas fraud scheme involving Ty Detmer

Last updated Friday, November 4, 2011 - 1:29pm

AUSTIN, Texas -- The former CEO of a Texas-based investment firm was sentenced to 17 years in prison Friday for a scheme that used former NFL players to bilk hundreds of investors out of more than $50 million.

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Sheriff says Mexican investigator was decapitated

April Castro, Olga Rodriguez, The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 10:03am

AUSTIN, Texas -- A Mexican police commander investigating the reported shooting of an American tourist on a border lake plagued by pirates has been decapitated and his head was found in a suitcase, a Texas sheriff says.

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Mexican police investigating shooting found dead

April Castro, Olga Rodriguez, The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 2:45pm

AUSTIN, Texas -- A Mexican police commander investigating the disappearance of an American tourist on a border lake plagued by pirates was killed, U.S. and Mexican officials said Tuesday.

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Search for man missing on lake thwarted by gangs

April Castro, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, October 7, 2010 - 3:29pm

ZAPATA, Texas -- U.S. officials say the search for an American tourist reportedly shot dead on a border lake by Mexican pirates has been hampered by threats of an ambush from drug gangs.

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Tiffany Hartley, center next to driver, and family members, are escorted by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department with a wreath to the site her husband, David Hartley, was shot last week, on Falcon Lake, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010 in Zapata, Texas. Hartman was shot by Mexican pirates on Falcon Lake last week as they were returning to the United States on Jet Skis.

Search on for tourist reported shot on border lake

April Castro, The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, October 8, 2010 - 7:15am

ZAPATA, Texas — An air and water search is on for the American tourist reportedly shot dead on a border lake by Mexican pirates, authorities there said Thursday, two days after Texas Gov. Rick Perry called for a more action.

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Sandra Bullock's divorce cites discord as grounds

April Castro The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, May 3, 2010 - 9:42am

AUSTIN, Texas -- Sandra Bullock has filed for divorce from her husband, Jesse James, citing discord and conflict of personalities without "any reasonable expectations of reconciliation."

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(JERRY LARSON/The Associated Press) A swat team enters the main gate at Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday. A soldier opened fire at a U.S. Army base in Fort Hood, unleashing a stream of gunfire that left 12 people dead and 31 wounded. Authorities killed the gunman, and apprehended two other soldiers suspected in what appears to be the worst mass shooting at a U.S. military base.

Army: 12 dead, 31 hurt in attacks at Fort Hood

Anne Gearan, April Castro The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, November 6, 2009 - 3:35pm

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FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) â€” An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post Thursday, authorities said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the United States.

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