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Happy birthday to Melissa Pacco of Columbia, Tennessee; Gwenet Davis; Samuel Johnson; and Penny Carruth and Hazel Winkle, both of Denison. .

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Texas DA: Murder charge for self-induced abortion being dropped

A Texas district attorney said Sunday that he will ask a judge to dismiss a murder charge against a woman over a selfinduced abortion. Lizelle Herrera was arrested Thursday in Rio Grande City, a community of about 14,000 people along the Mexico border, after a Starr County grand jury indicted her on March 30 for murder for allegedly causing “the death of an individual … by self-induced abortion.” District Attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez said Sunday that his office would move to dismiss the charge on Monday.

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7 indicted for deadly prison attack on rival gang members

A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Texas returned an indictment this week in Beaumont charging seven inmates at U.S. Penitentiary Beaumont, who are members of the violent transnational criminal organization La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, for their involvement in a deadly prison attack on rival gang members on Jan. 31. All seven defendants are in federal custody.

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