Authorities tally 116 bodies in Tamaulipas pits near U.S. border
Mexican AG Marisela Morales said 116 bodies were found in pits near the Texas border, up from 88. Twenty eight suspects tied to the Zetas drug gang have been detained in Tamaulipas over the killings, with some confessing to abducting bus passengers and killing them. Interior Secretary Blake Mora pledged expanded troop and federal police presence until arrests are made.
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Mexico City
U.S
Marisela Morales
Morales
Zetas
Tamaulipas
Francisco Blake Mora
Blake
San Fernando
United States
Brownsville
Texas
Gulf Coast
Gulf Cartel
Central Mexico
Campus conceal carry bill falters in Texas Senate
In Austin the campus conceal carry bill loses momentum as two Democratic supporters withdraw. Opponents led by university officials and students argue guns increase campus risk, prompting Senate delays after earlier Perry support and national attention.
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Texas
Senate
Austin
Rick Perry
Virginia Tech
U.S
Arizona
Students For
Perry
University of Texas
Charles Whitman
Capitol
Francisco Cigarroa
Eddie Lucio
Brownsville
Mario Gallegos
Houston
Gallegos
University of Houston
Father seeks end to deadly feud after NC store killing
In Brevard North Carolina Charles O Shields surrendered to face a first degree murder charge after allegedly shooting Toby Mathis in a Dollar General store nine weeks after his son Joey O Shields died in a road confrontation. The case has inflamed a feud between families with the sheriff noting the area normally sees two homicides a year.
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Brevard
N.C
Charles O’shields
Dollar General
North Carolina
O’shields
Toby Mathis
Transylvania County
David Mahoney
Stephany Travis
Joey O’shields
Mathis
Kim Lambrecht
Lambrecht
O'Shields
Associated Press
Sheriff's Office
Mahoney
Dorothy Banks
Banks
Richard
Travis
Joey
Toby
Mountain
Charlotte
Pisgah National Forest
Cashiers
Highlands
Charles O'Shields
Teacher legislator injured breaking up high school brawl
Kentucky state Rep. Dewayne Bunch, a high school teacher, was critically injured Tuesday while trying to break up a fight between two students in Whitley County. He was initially treated locally before being moved to the University of Kentucky Medical Center. The two students, ages 15 and 16, face assault charges and were jailed in a juvenile detention center after surveillance footage showed one student punch Bunch.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Dewayne Bunch
Whitley County
Colan Harrell Bunch
Harrell
Bunch
University of Kentucky Medical Center
Lexington
Guard killed in failed prison break in Sioux Falls
Two convicted kidnappers, Rodney Berger and Eric Robert, both 48, attacked correctional officer Ronald Johnson at the South Dakota Penitentiary during a failed escape. Johnson, with over 23 years on the job, died at a hospital after the assault as staff and inmates were accounted for. Berger is serving life for attempted murder and kidnapping. Robert holds an 80 year sentence for kidnapping.
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Sioux Falls
S.D
Rodney Berger
Eric Robert
South Dakota
State Department of Corrections
Berget
Robert
Department of Corrections
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Egidio Torre Cantu
Jeff Wentworth
San Antonio
Eddie Lucio, Jr
State Capitol
Son
Ronald Johnson
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