Press group: 8 reporters kidnapped in Mexican city
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Eight journalists were kidnapped in a northern Mexican border city over a period of two weeks in a wave of abductions unprecedented in the Western Hemisphere, the Inter-American Press Association reported....

Mavericks beat Nets for 13th straight victory
DALLAS (AP) -- Top scorer Dirk Nowitzki was struggling, and the Dallas Mavericks needed points from other sources....

Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal
WASHINGTON (AP) -- They flew planes during World War II but weren't considered real military pilots. No flags were draped over their coffins when they died on duty. And when their service ended, they had to pay their own bus fare home....

Tugboat's calls to tanker unanswered before crash
PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) -- Radio calls from a tugboat to an 800-foot tanker that made an emergency anchor drop and pulled a distress alarm went unanswered in the moments before the two vessels collided, causing the worst oil spill in Texas in 15 years, the tugboat's captain testified....

Texas officials sued over whooping crane deaths
DALLAS (AP) -- A conservation group has sued Texas environmental regulators over a record die-off of endangered whooping cranes....

Twins lead Bronte past Gruver, 47-32, in 1A semis
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Twins Dakota and Kerwin Rawls combined for 35 points to lead Bronte to a 47-32 victory against Gruver in the Class 1A Division I semifinals Thursday....

BP to pay $7 billion for exploration rights
LONDON (AP) -- Oil company BP PLC said Thursday it will pay $7 billion to acquire exploration rights from US-based Devon Energy Corp. that will strengthen BP's dominant position in the Gulf of Mexico and give it access to a promising region off Brazil....

Ind. man who killed 2 set to die in Texas
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- An Indiana man condemned for killing a San Antonio sheriff's officer as part of a month-long cross-country crime spree that also left another man slain is headed for the Texas death chamber....

Builder offers to buy homes in Texas landslide
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- The builder of a San Antonio development partially evacuated after a landslide in January has offered to buy back 27 homes....

Man acquitted in death of Rice basketball player
BRYAN, Texas (AP) -- A former Marine was acquitted Wednesday in the stabbing death of a Rice University basketball player during a 2007 fight outside a College Station bar....