Ex-Air Force nurse acquitted of killing patients
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- A court martial found a former Air Force nurse not guilty Saturday on charges of killing three terminally ill patients with lethal dosages of painkillers....

TX repairman admits he helped smuggle guns
HOUSTON (AP) -- As part of a plea agreement, a Houston windshield repairman has admitted he conspired to lie to gun dealers about where more than 300 military-style weapons were headed so they could be smuggled from the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels....

Atlantis astronauts take 2nd spacewalk of mission
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday....

Titans' Gage out 2nd game
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee receiver Justin Gage is out for the Titans' game against the Texans with broken bones in his lower back....

Stanford investors to Antigua: Remove liquidator
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua (AP) -- A group of investors is urging an Antiguan court to remove a British accounting firm appointed to collect assets of a Caribbean offshore bank at the center of an alleged Ponzi scheme by Texas financier R. Allen Stanford....

More Americans expected to travel for Thanksgiving
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of Americans traveling away from home for Thanksgiving will be up only slightly this year from 2008, according to a report from the AAA auto club....

Longtime Texas surfing mecca demolished
GILCHRIST, Texas (AP) -- Mark Faggard remembers the cheering of the crowds lined up on Meacom's Pier to watch surfing competitions in years past....

Conservative firebrand tones it down as GOP chief
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Republican activist Cathie Adams has almost made a career out of stirring things up. She has criticized senior members of her own party, bucked business leaders by opposing their cherished lawuit reform efforts, called global warming a "hoax" and used the specter of Adolf Hitler to warn of perceived Obama Administration excesses....

Death of Drew Brees' mother ruled a suicide
GRANBY, Colo. (AP) -- The death of the mother of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees has been ruled a suicide....

Perry, Hutchison to debate on public television
DALLAS (AP) -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison have agreed to a debate before their hotly contested Republican gubernatorial primary next spring....