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2/22/2012
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says U.S. Border Patrol agents shouldn't be demoralized by the recent reviews of deportation cases.
Federal prosecutors have been reviewing thousands of deportation cases in recent months to focus on illegal immigrants who have committed crimes or have previously been deported. That has left many illegal immigrants living in the U.S. in legal limbo.
During a stop Tuesday at a Border Patrol station near the Rio Grande in Texas, Napolitano said recently apprehended illegal immigrants remain a priority. But the former Arizona governor says existing cases must be prioritized to make best use of resources.
National Border Patrol Council President George McCubbin III says agents are concerned about using more discretion in deportation cases. He says it's simply a step toward amnesty.
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2/22/2012
Three Texas men whom federal officials say were linked to a gun used in a U.S. agent's death in Mexico have been sentenced after pleading guilty to weapons charges.
Ranferi Osorio, Kelvin Leon Morrison and Luis Carbajal (KAHR'-bah-hahl) were sentenced Tuesday for their November guilty pleas. U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay of Dallas sentenced Osorio to 10 years in prison, Morrison to 2{ years in prison, and Carbajal to two years of probation.
According to federal complaints filed previously, investigators said the men met a confidential informant near Dallas in November and gave him 40 guns to take into Mexico.
Authorities later learned that a gun purchased in October 2010 by another member of the ring was used in a February 2011 attack on two U.S. agents, killing one.
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2/22/2012
Authorities say two people have died in the West Texas crash of a small plane that disappeared on a flight to Oklahoma.
Lynn Lunsford with the Federal Aviation Administration says the wreckage was found Tuesday morning and law enforcement confirms two deaths.
The Texas Department of Public Safety says the wreckage of the single-engine Piper Comanche was discovered on a ranch about six miles northwest of Albany.
Shackelford County Sheriff Edward Miller identified the dead as pilot Dale "Scooter'' Phillips Jr. and passenger Amy Clay.
The FAA says the plane was flying from Abilene to Norman, Okla., on Monday night when the aircraft went off radar and radio contact was lost near Albany, about 150 miles west of Dallas.
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2/22/2012
A Texas man has been found guilty of kidnapping his former neighbor and raping her on a deer-skinning device and a bed where she was chained nightly for almost two weeks.
Jurors deliberated 50 minutes before reaching a verdict in Jeffrey Allan Maxwell's case. The 59-year-old was charged with aggravated kidnapping and two counts of aggravated sexual assault.
Maxwell faces up to life in prison. Jurors will hear more evidence during the trial's punishment phase.
The woman testified last week that Maxwell abducted her March 1 from her rural home. Then he drove 100 miles away to his Corsicana house, 50 miles south of Dallas.
She was rescued 12 days later when authorities went to question Maxwell about her disappearance.
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2/21/2012
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is praising George H.W. Bush as she speaks at the former president's government school at conservative-leaning Texas A&M University.
The California liberal was greeted warmly Monday evening as she appeared before about 600 people in what's billed as a conversation moderated by the George H.W. Bush School of Government's acting dean, Andrew Card.
Pelosi said Bush's name is synonymous with civility and that's something lacking today.
Card was deputy chief of staff during the Republican Bush's White House years. The former president and his wife, Barbara, were in the front row at the event in College Station. Bush invited Pelosi to participate.
Card also served as chief of staff when Bush's son was president and Pelosi famously derided George W. Bush as a total failure.
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2/21/2012
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is finishing a North Dakota campaign trip Monday with visits to Jamestown and Bismarck.
Paul is speaking at legislative district conventions to attract support for next month's North Dakota Republican presidential caucuses.
The Bismarck convention Monday night will include Republican activists from the city's five legislative districts.
The Southeast Texas congressman made appearances Sunday in Williston and Dickinson. He drew about 800 people to Williston's high school auditorium.
In North Dakota's Republican presidential caucuses in 2008, Paul finished third behind Mitt Romney and John McCain. Paul got 21 percent of almost 9,800 votes cast.
This year's Republican national convention is being held in Tampa Bay in August. North Dakota will have 28 of the convention's almost 2,300 delegates.
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2/21/2012
A San Antonio police officer is hospitalized after a pickup truck hit him as he worked an accident scene on Interstate 410 on the northwest side of the city.
Police reports show Officer Jonathan Esquivel was placing traffic cones to protect an officer working the accident scene when he was hit Sunday night. According to the reports, the driver of the truck had taken his eyes off the rode briefly and hit the 28-year-old officer when he swerved to avoid hitting the stopped vehicles.
The truck's driver was not charged. Police spokeswoman Sandy Gutierrez says Esquivel was in critical but stable condition in University Hospital on Monday.
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2/21/2012
Authorities were searching early Tuesday for a small airplane that disappeared from radar and radio contact the night before.
Lynn Lunsford, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said a single-engine Piper Comanche that departed from Abilene, Texas, and was en route to Norman, Okla., lost contact about 7:30 p.m. Monday night when the craft was somewhere near Albany, Texas, about 150 miles west of Dallas.
Lunsford said officials were still trying to determine who was on the airplane. He said the FAA was working with local authorities to determine what happened to the craft.
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2/17/2012
A mother and her two children have died after their mobile home in Waco caught on fire.
Firefighters who were called to the mobile home Thursday night found it ablaze with the woman and children trapped inside.
Neighbor Denise Miller says she could hear the mother crying for help inside.
A neighbor was able to pull one child out of a window. That child remains hospitalized in Dallas. Three firefighters also suffered second-degree burns.
The cause of the fire was not immediately clear. The victims' names were not released.
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2/17/2012
Revelers are expected to flock to the Mardi Gras celebrations on Texas' Gulf Coast, rain or shine.
Despite expected rain and thunderstorms Friday that could cause flooding, vendors and longtime visitors in Port Arthur say bad weather doesn't make much of a difference on attendance and sales.
Rhonda Gaspard and her husband have come from Sulphur, La., for more than 15 years to sell Mardi Gras beads, hats and masks. Gaspard says that no one wants to miss out.
Gaspard and others expect large crowds after the parades on Friday and Saturday.
Port Arthur native Jeanette Spencer calls Mardi Gras a "family affair'' that is the town's biggest event each year.
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