Armstrong solid; Cancellara wins Tour's 1st stage
MONACO (AP) -- Lance Armstrong put in a solid performance in his comeback at the Tour de France on Saturday, finishing the first stage ahead of 170 riders many years younger and a respectable 10th behind winner Fabian Cancellara....

George W. Bush to spend 4th of July in rural Okla.
WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) -- Former President George W. Bush, who has turned up in a handful of out-of-the-way places since leaving office, was set to spend part of Independence Day speaking at a remodeled rodeo arena in rural northwestern Oklahoma....

Soldier who fought in pink boxers home for the 4th
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- The soldier who was photographed fighting the Taliban in his pink boxer shorts said Saturday he was glad to be back home in Texas after his yearlong deployment to Afghanistan - especially for the Fourth of July....

Texas state inmates use fans to beat the heat
RIVERSIDE, Texas (AP) -- Only 19 of 112 Texas state prisons are air-conditioned, leaving most of the state's 155,000 prisoners and those who guard them to face the summer heat with fans and primitive air-circulating systems....

Soldier who fought in pink boxers home for Fourth
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- A week before he was to go away to college on an ROTC scholarship, Zachary Boyd shocked his parents: He wasn't going....

Pricey 'Dallas' TV show fundraiser being planned
DALLAS (AP) -- Two cast members of the TV show "Dallas" say they will not participate in a fundraiser being planned New Year's Eve in Florida that has outraged some fans because of steep ticket prices....

Small town America pins hopes on West trade route
LIMON, Colo. (AP) -- For Joe Kiely, the drone of thousands of trucks passing his Colorado plains town signals economic prosperity....

Chicken farming growing trend in suburbia
DALLAS (AP) -- Some North Texas residents are going clucky over chickens, bringing the farm fowl home to raise in their backyards....

TSA agent arrested after avoiding screening in NJ
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A Transportation Security Administration agent was arrested at a New Jersey airport after authorities say she avoided a pre-flight screening and boarded a plane....

Man killed setting up for computer street sale
DALLAS (AP) -- A man is dead after shots were fired into a crowd of vendors setting up for a sidewalk computer street sale in downtown Dallas....