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Tornadoes threatening parts of US this weekend By CHUCK BARTELS ASSOCIATED PRESS
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Forecasters are predicting a significant chance of strong tornadoes this weekend across a large part of the nation’s mid-section, an
outbreak that could stretch from the Great Plains to the Midwest and South. It’s been a quiet year for tornadoes so far, but that doesn’t mean the placid weather won’t take an abrupt turn, forecasters said Thursday.
“Our run of relatively quiet weather may be about to come to an end,” Bill Bunting, operations chief for the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said. Bunting said the coming system will start today in
the Plains — Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and a sliver of South Dakota — and move eastward into Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana on Sunday. The system is expected to
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ALAMEDA THEATER
Soldiers fight off attackers in black Lincoln Escalade THE ZAPATA TIMES
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Two suspects died in a gunfight with Mexican Army soldiers Thursday night in Miguel Aleman, Mexico, stated the Tamaulipas state government in a press release. About 11 p.m. Thursday, soldiers were on patrol on vacant land at the end of Manuel Acuña Street in the Infonavit del Norte neighborhood, near the Rio Grande, the press release stated.
Escalade used They were reportedly attcked by armed civilians traveling in a black Lincoln Escalade with Zacatecas, Mexico, license plates. Soldiers fought off the attack, killing the sus-
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Photo by Steve Bennett/San Antonio Express-News | AP
The Alameda Theater, housed in the International Building, is “the heart of San Antonio,” said Ernest Bromley, who is spearheading the venerable theater’s restoration.
Famed Hispanic showplace gets facelift By STEVE BENNETT SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
SAN ANTONIO — To someone walking up West Houston Street, the art deco
Alameda Theater — with its soaring, 86-foot marquee — looks pretty much as show business entrepreneur Gae-
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Photo by Steve Bennett/San Antonio Express-News | AP
The new stagehouse and orchestra pit are seen March 14 as part of the first phase of renovations to the Alameda Theater.
Vigilantes hunting for cartel leader Civilian group seeks remaining top man in Knights Templar ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Sainthood for two popes By ANDREW FRYE BLOOMBERG NEWS
Pope John Paul II, on the cusp of the fastest canonization in recent history, will be honored along with a pope whose death 51 years ago spurred the first modern in-
stant-sainthood campaign in a double ceremony this weekend in Rome. On Sunday, Pope Francis, 77, will declare the sainthood of John Paul, who died nine years ago, and John XXIII,
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Photo by Emilio Morenatti | AP
A Polish nun holds a portrait of late Pope John Paul II in a shop near St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, on Friday.
MEXICO CITY — Vigilantes are searching an extensive cave system in the hunt for the last fugitive boss of the Knights Templar drug cartel, a “self-defense” group leader in western Mexico said Thursday. Vigilante leader Estanislao Beltran said there are signs the cartel had used the caves near the town of Arteaga in Michoacan state. “I think they used it as a hideout,” said Beltran, who had descended about 100 yards into the caves. “We found evidence.” Three days ago, vigilantes accompanied by federal forces took control of Arteaga, which is the hometown of Servando “La Tuta” Gomez, the only one of the cartel’s top four leaders who has not been captured or killed. Gomez once served as a school teacher in the area and had some support among townspeople because his gang handed out money to
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