JUAN A. LOZANO

Associated Press
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Ex-Stanford worker describes unqualified employees

A former employee testifying Monday in the fraud trial of jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford told jurors he worked in an office in which unqualified people, including an executive's farm hand and preacher, were hired as financial analysts and where he was asked to alter financial figures.

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Retiree says he lost life savings with Stanford

A retired architect and military veteran told jurors at Texas financier R. Allen Stanford's fraud trial Friday that he lost nearly all of his life savings investing with Stanford, and has survived by eating "a lot of macaroni and cheese" and selling his possessions on eBay.

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Johnson & Johnson settles Texas lawsuit for $158M

Texas and a subsidiary of health care giant Johnson & Johnson reached a $158 million settlement in a Medicaid fraud lawsuit Thursday, allowing the drugmaker to pay a fraction of the potential $1 billion in penalties and fines that state officials had initially sought.

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Last-ditch attempt to delay Stanford trial fails

A last-ditch attempt by attorneys for jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford to postpone his trial was unsuccessful. Stanford, charged with bilking investors out of $7 billion in a massive Ponzi scheme, goes on trial next week.

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2 boys, 10, accused of sex assault on Houston bus

Houston police say two 10-year-old boys have been charged with sexually assaulting an 8-year-old boy on a school bus.

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Agency ranks 2011 as driest year ever in Texas

The National Weather Service says 2011 was Texas' driest year on record as well as its second hottest.

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March trials expected in sex assaults of girl, 11

The first trials for some of more than a dozen men accused of taking part in a series of sexual assaults on an 11-year-old girl could take place in March, a prosecutor said Thursday.

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Judge rules Stanford competent to stand trial

Jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford is mentally competent to stand trial on charges he bilked investors out of $7 billion in a massive Ponzi scheme, a judge ruled Thursday

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Prison official: Financier Stanford not suicidal

A court hearing on whether jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford is competent to stand trial was briefly delayed after attorneys told a judge that prison officials had concerns over whether Stanford is suicidal.

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Experts say Stanford not competent for trial

Medical experts for jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford continued making their case Wednesday that he is not competent to be tried next month on charges he bilked investors out of $7 billion in a massive Ponzi scheme.

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Ex-Enron workers look back with a mix of feelings

Former Enron Corp. employee George Maddox, who lost his retirement savings when the energy giant collapsed, says he has been forced to spend his golden years making ends meet by mowing pastures and living in a run-down East Texas farmhouse.

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Judge says feds need warrant for cellphone info

A federal judge in Houston has ruled that authorities need a search warrant to obtain cellphone records that can be used to track a person's movements.

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Texas man convicted of trying to help al-Qaida

A Texas man accused of attempting to sneak out of the country with restricted U.S. military documents, money and equipment in order to join al-Qaida was convicted Monday of trying to help the terrorist organization.

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Texan tells court he didn't want to help al-Qaida

A Texas man accused of trying to sneak out of the country with restricted U.S. military documents, money and equipment in order to join al-Qaida told a judge Monday that he wanted to leave because he disagrees with American foreign policy and that he never intended to hurt anyone.

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Charge dropped against Ga. woman in Texas death

The murder charge against an ailing 76-year-old woman who spent more than four decades on the run after being accused of killing her husband by dousing him with hot grease was dismissed Friday.

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Judge denies DNA tests before Texas execution

A judge has denied a Texas death row inmate's request for testing of DNA evidence his attorneys say could prove his innocence, less than a week before the man is set to be executed.

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Fugitive in husband's death appears in court

An elderly woman with an oxygen tank next to her sat in a Texas courtroom Friday after her four-decade run as a fugitive accused of murdering her husband by dousing him with hot grease came to an end.

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Rig owner accused of not honoring spill subpoenas

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday filed a civil complaint against the owner of the rig that exploded last year in the Gulf of Mexico and led to a massive oil spill, accusing the company of refusing to honor subpoenas from a federal board investigating the accident.

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Oil workers describe floating for days in Gulf

When waves as high as 40 feet disabled the 94-foot research vessel Jeremy Parfait and nine other oil workers were on in the Gulf of Mexico last month, he knew there was only one place they could go — into the water.

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Relatives unsure of killer's claim in Texas deaths

At age 84, Elmer Pitchford knows time is running out for him to learn who killed his teenage daughter four decades ago in Houston.

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Lawsuits filed by workers who floated days in Gulf

Two oil workers who survived days floating on a life raft in the Gulf of Mexico after they evacuated their disabled vessel during a tropical storm have filed lawsuits claiming the workers were abandoned by another ship that could have taken them to safety.

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Experts: Texas execution delay tied to review

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision this week to stop a Texas death row inmate's execution for a third time is likely part of a larger review by the high court of claims related to effective legal representation, legal experts said Wednesday.

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Texas website shuts down after apparent hacking

The head of a Texas law enforcement group whose website was apparently taken over by the hacker group known as Anonymous said Friday that the association has taken the site down to evaluate its security.

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Officials: Mom got daughter abortion to hide rape

A Houston woman got an abortion for her 12-year-old mentally disabled daughter in an effort to hide evidence that her son sexually assaulted the girl, authorities said.

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Pilot not guilty on 1 count of lying over drowning

A federal jury found a Department of Homeland Security pilot not guilty Friday of lying about his alleged role in the drowning of a would-be illegal immigrant swimming across the Rio Grande toward Texas, but couldn't reach a verdict on three other similar counts.

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