Associated Press

Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland took no chances after one of his assistant prosecutors was assassinated two months ago. McLelland said he carried a gun everywhere he went and took extra care when answering the door at his home

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NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (AP) — Dozens of law officers have raided the South Texas headquarters of The Scooter Score in an alleged fraud investigation.

Authorities were seen Wednesday carrying out a search warrant at the New Braunfels headquarters of the company that supplies power wheelchairs and scooters

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police now say only people in a black Range Rover were shooting at a Maserati before a crash on the Las Vegas Strip killed three and injured several others

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HOUSTON (AP) — Law officers in Houston who answered a call about a kidnapping have detained at least 30 suspected illegal immigrants found at an apparent stash house.

Houston police and federal agents early Thursday responded to a call from the parents of a woman allegedly smuggled across the border with Mexico

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pittsburgh-area woman has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and other crimes for allegedly leaving her 3-year-old twins alone before they died in a fire, while she was trying to retrieve marijuana stolen by her 15-year-old daughter

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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Two San Antonio brothers facing sexual exploitation counts have been charged with killing one sibling's 10-year-old daughter, the girl's mother and a friend.

Prosecutors say the stabbed bodies were found during a 2011 house fire a few days before the brothers faced court appearances related to alleged abuse of the girl

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AURORA, Colo. (AP) — The Colorado movie theater where a gunman killed 12 people and injured 70 others is reopening with a private event for victims and officials.

Cinemark is reopening the Aurora theater where James Holmes is accused of staging the massacre on July 20

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry says prayer can be more effective than gun control laws.

In a statement responding to President Barack Obama's executive actions to reduce gun violence, Perry says he's "disgusted" by what he calls the "political left" using the Connecticut school massacre to push for greater restrictions on guns

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — In the heavily-Hispanic neighborhoods of Las Vegas, unemployment is high and home values are down.

But President Barack Obama's immigration stand has locked in support from a fast-growing demographic group that has been trending sharply Democratic in the wake of increasingly hard-line Republican positions on immigration

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VIENNA, Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are engaged in an all-out effort to court women in the campaign's closing weeks, knowing that women could help determine the winner in a series of toss-up states

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