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Dr Pepper, one of the giant names in soft drink history, appears to have its eyes set on the little guy.
Police said one-year-old Victoria Marks was left in a vehicle parked in the faculty lot of Frank Guzick Elementary School Friday afternoon. The child's mother, a teacher at the school, faces child abandonment charges.
Powerball is a game of numbers, and lottery officials say the majority of possible combinations have already been purchased ahead of Saturday night's near-historic $600 million drawing.
Detectives said Jeffrey Weaver, 36, was returning to his home in the 600 block of Woodmont Drive around 2 a.m. when he was shot multiple times. He died a short time later at Baylor University Medical Center.
Residents of the Rancho Brazos subdivision that was devastated in Wednesday's tornado lined up Saturday morining to get their first close-up look at the damage.
Officials described a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in Connecticut, saying Saturday it's fortunate that no one was killed and that there weren't even more injuries.
The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating a deadly motorcycle accident near Justin early Saturday morning. It happened at the intersection of Sam Reynolds Road and FM 156 around 1 a.m.
n airline official says a US Airways flight with 34 people aboard was forced to make a belly landing at Newark International Airport after experiencing landing gear trouble. No injuries were reported.
National News
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) -- Officials described a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in Connecticut, saying Saturday it's fortunate that no one was killed and that there weren't even more injuries....
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- O.J. Simpson's former lawyer defended himself point-by-point Friday against allegations he botched the former football star's armed-robbery trial, after giving damaging testimony that Simpson actually knew his buddies had guns when they went to a hotel room together to reclaim some sports memorabilia....
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) -- Two cups of coffee ended life on the run for an Internet sensation known as Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker....
With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay boys can participate in Scout units....
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- It's all about the odds....
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are executing a search warrant Saturday in the case of two letters containing the deadly poison ricin that were intercepted this week at a post office in Washington state....
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) -- A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals....
O'BRIEN, Ore. (AP) -- Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran out....
