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Last Updated 09/02/2010 11:25 AM by Jose Luis Martinez

SAN PATRICIO COUNTY- A Mathis man accused of attacking another man with a shovel earlier this year has been found not guilty.

43 year old Richard Muniz was charged with aggravated assault in connection with that shovel attack back in May.

A San atricio county jury Wednesday found Muniz not guilty in the attack that left Ruben Perez seriously injured.

Perez had been working in his front yard when a truck sped down the road and pulled into his yard.

Witnesses… Click to Read More

Last Updated 09/02/2010 7:19 AM by Meteorologist Matt Terhune

Partly cloudy with a few isolated seabreeze showers today. Hot with highs in the mid-90s. Moderate southeast breeze 10-20mph this afternoon.

Last Updated 09/02/2010 11:31 AM

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) Northern Ireland police say they have arrested a suspected Irish Republican Army dissident over a blast that injured three children.

The victims a 2-year-old and two 12-year-olds sustained cuts and went into shock when the bomb hidden in a garbage can detonated Aug. 14 in the town of Lurgan, southwest of Belfast. IRA dissidents are particularly active there.

Northern Ireland police say they arrested a 27-year-old man Thursday in the neighboring t… Click to Read More

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Last Updated 09/02/2010 11:35 AM

HONG KONG (AP) The expatriate American housewife who won a retrial after being convicted of murdering of her banker husband in Hong Kong with a drugged milkshake and a blow to the head will ask a judge to dismiss the case against her, a lawyer said Thursday.

Nancy Kissel was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murder in September 2005. But Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal ordered a retrial in March, saying that she was improperly cross-examined and that the trial jud… Click to Read More

Tagged As: AS-Hong-Kong-Milkshake-Murder

Last Updated 09/01/2010 10:29 PM

A poll released Wednesday found that an overwhelming majority of Arizona voters support the types of provisions that are at the heart of a national debate involving the state's immigration law.

The survey conducted on behalf of Arizona State University's Morrison Institute for Public Policy found 81 percent of registered voters approved of requiring people to produce documents that show they're in the country legally.

It found that 74 percent believe police should be allowed to de… Click to Read More

Last Updated 09/01/2010 10:25 PM

Animal rights activists in Bosnia are demanding an investigation of an internet video that shows a girl throwing puppies into a river.

The video recently surfaced on Youtube showing the girl in the hood, grabbing puppies from a bucket and throwing them into a river one-by-one.

The footage has sparked a lot of outrage on the internet, and several Facebook groups have formed calling for authorities to find the girl and punish her.

The head of a Bosnian animal cruelty associa… Click to Read More

Last Updated 09/02/2010 11:13 AM

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) - A doctor whose decomposing body was found in a narrow chimney suffocated after she tried to get into the home of her boyfriend, authorities said Wednesday.

The body of Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac was found Saturday - three days after she slid feet first down the chimney of the Bakersfield home, police said.

"The pressure being placed on the chest wouldn't allow her lungs to expand and she suffocated," Kern County sheriff-coroner spokesman Ray Pruitt … Click to Read More

Last Updated 09/02/2010 11:26 AM

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CORPUS CHRISTI - KRIS 6 News has obtained a document from the Paul Pawlak trial.

He is the man accused of sexually assaulting at least four teenage boys.

Late Wednesday afternoon, someone who wished to remain anonymous dropped off a document at the KRIS 6 News studio.

It appears to be from a DNA report from the Texas DPS Crime Laboratory.

According to the document a partial DNA profile taken from the victim's private parts does not match DNA taken from Pa… Click to Read More

Last Updated 09/01/2010 9:28 PM

CORPUS CHRISTI - The Corpus Christi International Airport is getting $2.8 million in federal grants.

The money will be used for improvements to the terminal and main airport building.

Specifically the money will be used to expand the federal inspection station where international passengers are processed in to the country.

Officials say the improvements should be done by 2016 and will help increase business at the airport.

The funding was made av… Click to Read More

Last Updated 09/01/2010 8:52 PM

NEW YORK (AP) - It is "unethical, insensitive and inhumane" to
oppose the planned mosque near ground zero, more than 50 leading
Muslim organizations said Wednesday as they cast the intense debate
as a symptom of religious intolerance in America.

The imam behind the project, meanwhile, was preparing to return
to the U.S. after a taxpayer-funded good will tour to the Mideast,
where he said the debate is about much more than "a piece of real
estate." Imam Fe… Click to Read More

Last Updated 09/01/2010 8:50 PM

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) - The U.S. Forest Service is reviewing
whether an eastern Arizona ranger whose tip led to the capture of
two of the most wanted fugitives in America can receive $27,500 in
reward money under the agency's ethics guidelines.

Apache Sitgreaves National Forest spokeswoman Pam Baltimore said
Wednesday local forest officials would like to see the ranger get
the money. But she said tentative word from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, whi… Click to Read More

Last Updated 09/01/2010 7:45 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Texas congresswoman who broke scholarship
rules by awarding money to her relatives and an aide's children has
repaid about $31,000 to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.

Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson said in a statement
Wednesday that she has repaid the funds in full.

The Dallas Morning News reported earlier this week that the
Dallas-area Democrat had violated foundation rules against nepotism
and making awards to stu… Click to Read More

Last Updated 09/01/2010 7:43 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of illegal immigrants living in the
U.S. has dropped for the first time in two decades - decreasing by
8 percent since 2007, a new study finds. The reasons range from the
sour economy to Mexican violence and increased U.S. enforcement
that has made it harder to sneak across the border.

Much of the decline comes from a sharp drop-off in illegal
immigrants from the Caribbean, Central America and South America
attempting to cross… Click to Read More

Last Updated 09/01/2010 6:53 PM

VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) - A murder suspect who led officers on a
high-speed chase with his dead girlfriend in the passenger seat is
a central figure in the investigation of at least four killings,
authorities said Wednesday.

Efren Valdemoro, 38, was shot and killed by California Highway
Patrol officers Tuesday night after refusing to drop a meat
cleaver, CHP spokesman Sgt. Trent Cross said. The chase for
Valdemoro, who had been wanted in the death of a 73-ye… Click to Read More

Last Updated 09/01/2010 6:51 PM

COLLINGDALE, Pa. (AP) - Officials say a fire at a
Philadelphia-area welding supply company that injured five people
has been brought under control.

Delaware County spokesman Bill Lovejoy says the blaze that broke
out Wednesday afternoon at Scully Welding Supply in Collingdale was
brought under control shortly after 6 p.m.

He says fire crews were still looking for hot spots and keeping
an eye on a large propane tank to make sure that it posed no
da… Click to Read More