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World Digest: Ex-secret police chief in Chile implicates CIA in Pinochet-era hit

CHILE Ex-security chief says CIA was behind hit SANTIAGO – The former chief of Chile’s feared secret police who was convicted in the 1974 assassination of Gen.

Exonerated man freed after 27 years in prison; woman accused of killing baby sitter faces capital murder charges.

HOUSTON Man exonerated of rape is freed A Houston man who has spent the past 27 years imprisoned for a rape he didn’t commit is a free man.

U.S. Consulate in Juárez closed by bomb threat

A credible bomb threat forced authorities to abruptly shut down the U.S. Consulate in this city gripped by violence and fear, U.S.

Congress OKs tougher training, tracking of regional airline pilots

Responding to the deaths of 50 people in the crash last year of a Continental Airlines flight near Buffalo, N.Y., Congress passed legislation Friday requiring increased training and experience for regional airline pilots.

Texas Education Agency releases statewide school ratings

For the second consecutive year, more than two of three schools statewide earned top academic honors exemplary and recognized ratings Texas Education Agency officials announced Friday.

Gulf states now concerned about restoring their image

Louisiana fishermen pray their livelihood will return, hoteliers in Alabama wait for the phones to ring, and New Orleans’ finest chefs cook up public relations strategies rather than po-boys all because oil has touched their shorelines.

Texas student loan guarantor looks to redefine itself

Since its creation, the Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corp. has guaranteed .6 billion in loans for millions of Texas students.

Pink Monkey sued by slain men’s family

The family of two slain stepbrothers is suing the strip club where the men were killed for damages and loss of companionship, according to court records.

Republicans block measure to assist small businesses

Senate Republicans on Thursday rejected a bill to aid small businesses with expanded loan programs and tax breaks, in a procedural blockade that underscored how fiercely determined the party’s leaders are to deny Democrats any further legislative accomplishments ahead of the November midterm elections.

D.C. sniper Malvo says there were conspirators, more kills

Convicted sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, in a telephone interview with actor William Shatner, now says he and John Allen Muhammad shot 42 people during their rampage in 2002, a claim that those who investigated the case say is ridiculous.