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State: Teen killed restaurateur with arrow
— VICTORIA, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors say a teenager killed the 76-year-old founder of a popular San Antonio restaurant with an arrow before setting the house ablaze and going on a spending spree with her credit cards.
Joe Estrada Jr. sat quietly Monday while his capital murder trial began for the 2008 murder of Viola Barrios, the matriarch of the popular Los Barrios and La Hacienda de los Barrios restaurants. Estrada was her next-door neighbor.
Estrada was 18 when he was arrested hours after Barrios was found dead in her home, with a bronze arrow tip lodged in her skull. He pleaded not guilty.
Estrada’s attorneys postponed their opening statement to the jury. The trial was moved about 120 miles away to Victoria because of intense media coverage.
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Dallas-area man sentenced in drilling scheme
PLANO, Texas (AP) — A Dallas-area man has been sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison and ordered to repay nearly $18 million after pleading guilty to fraud in an oil and natural gas drilling scheme.
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12 Texans plead guilty in unemployment fraud case
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Workforce Commission says 12 people have pleaded guilty to fraudulently receiving unemployment benefits.
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Mexico violence factors in spring break plans
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) — Marquette University senior Kelly Magennis wasn’t even up prepping for the start of the biggest spring break week on Texas’ South Padre Island when the first text message arrived from her mom forbidding her from crossing into Mexico.
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Car slams into Dallas transit bus; 3 hurt
DALLAS (AP) — Three people were hurt, including one who’s been hospitalized, after a car slammed into the side of a Dallas transit bus, sending it careening into a column fronting a new office building.
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Investigators seek motive in 3 slayings in Mexico
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — The two families climbed into white SUVs and almost simultaneously left the children’s birthday party put on by the U.S. consulate. One headed deeper into one of the world’s most dangerous cities, the other toward a bridge to El Paso, one of America’s safest.
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Response before Texas shooting questioned again
COLDSPRING, Texas (AP) — Dispatch records and audio recordings appear to conflict with a southeast Texas sheriff captain’s claim that deputies were too busy to respond to a call from a home where four people were later found shot to death.
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19 hurt when Houston transit train, bus collide
HOUSTON (AP) — A transit train and bus collided in downtown Houston on Monday, sending 19 people to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said.
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Galveston gets more time to clean, clear after Ike
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Galveston is getting more time to use federal dollars to pay for clearing and cleaning the Hurricane Ike-recovering island.
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DEA agent talks of standoff with Mexican drug lord
HOUSTON (AP) — A federal agent is publicly discussing for the first time his standoff a decade ago with a drug kingpin who once headed one of Mexico’s most violent cartels.
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Illegal immigrants in Texas get in-state tuition
DALLAS (AP) — More than 12,000 illegal immigrants, non-permanent residents or non-U.S. citizens paid in-state tuition or received other such financial aid at public colleges and universities across Texas during late 2009, the Dallas Morning News reported Monday.
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