Texas manager tested positive for cocaine in 2009
SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) -- Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington admitted he made a "huge mistake" when he used cocaine and failed a Major League Baseball drug test last season....

Country music impresario Johnnie High dead at 80
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- Johnnie High, the north Texas country music showman who gave such performers as LeAnn Rimes and Boxcar Willie their early exposure, has died at the age of 80....

Influential Big Star member Alex Chilton dies
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, who topped the charts as a teen and later became a cult hero with Big Star, died Wednesday. He was 59....

Fear grips Mexican border families amid violence
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) -- Elodia Ortiz drops her children at school in the morning, picks them up in the afternoon and makes an occasional trip to the supermarket. Anything else, she says, is too dangerous....

Fumes suspected in assisted living center death
MIDLAND, Texas (AP) -- A woman is dead and six other people were sickened by what investigators suspect was carbon monoxide poisoning at a Midland assisted living center....

Killer of 3 in Texas loses bid for execution delay
LIVINGSTON, Texas (AP) -- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals refused on Wednesday to halt next week's execution of a man convicted of a triple slaying in the Texas Panhandle more than 16 years ago....

Slain El Paso couple praised by relatives
EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- A Saturday funeral is scheduled in El Paso for an employee of the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and her husband....

Texan accused of disabling 100 cars over Internet
DALLAS (AP) -- A man fired from a Texas auto dealership used an Internet service to remotely disable ignitions and set off car horns of more than 100 vehicles sold at his old workplace, police said Wednesday....

Former state senator wants Texas seat back
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Former state Sen. David Sibley wants to retake the Texas Senate seat he held for 11 years....

Texan accused of disabling 100 cars over Internet
DALLAS (AP) -- Police say a man fired from a Texas auto dealership used an Internet service to remotely disable ignitions and set off car horns of more than 100 vehicles sold at his workplace....