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Remains found Students killed, burned, dumped into river By JACOBO G. GARCIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEXICO CITY — Suspects in the disappearance of 43 college students have described a macabre and complicated mass murder and incineration of the victims carried out over an entire day and ending with their ashen remains being dumped into a river, Mexican authorities said Friday. In a somber, lengthy explanation of the investigation, Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam played video showing hundreds of charred frag-
ments of bone and teeth fished from the river and its banks. He said it will be very difficult to extract DNA to confirm that they are the students missing since Sept. 26 after an attack by police in the southern state of Guerrero. “I know the enormous pain the information we’ve obtained causes the family members, a pain we all share,” Murillo Karam said at a news conference. “The statements and information that we have gotten unfortunately points to the murder of a large number of people in
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Tamaulipas authorities honor General Niño Villarreal during a posthumous ceremony in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico.
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Students protest the disappearance of 43 students in the state of Guerrero, outside the general attorney’s office in Mexico City.
Forces honor slain Gen. in ceremony Gunmen killed Niño, wife Saturday night in street ambush
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Tamaulipas authorities and federal forces honored slain Gen. Ricardo César Niño Villarreal during a posthumous ceremony held inside a security
complex in Ciudad Victoria, officials said Thursday. Niño was the regional coordinator for public safety in Tamaulipas. He was stationed in Nuevo
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LUBBOCK
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A 1958 Ariel Cyclone motorcycle that was owned by both Buddy Holly and Waylon Jennings is displayed in Lubbock on Thursday.
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Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis waves to supporters as she leaves her election watch party after making her concession speech, Tuesday in Fort Worth.
Wendy couldn’t move needle with women By PAUL J. WEBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — Of all the ways Democrat Wendy Davis lost her run for Texas governor, one particularly stands out: She failed to move the needle with women. Exit polls show Davis
fared no better with women than her male Democratic predecessor in 2010, despite being one of the most recognizable female candidates in the U.S. and a campaign that aggressively courted women with gender issues and attention-grabbing ads.
Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott won 54 percent of female voters — roughly the same edge Gov. Rick Perry had with women four years ago. And Abbott’s advantage wasn’t just among Republican women: He carried roughly double the support that Davis
pulled with women who described themselves as politically independent. “I don’t understand at this point where we lost them, if indeed we did,” said Patsy Woods Martin, executive director of Annie’s List, a political or-
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Buddy Holly’s bike back in his hometown By JOSIE MUSICO LUBBOCK AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
LUBBOCK — Waylon Jennings was stunned speechless to receive Buddy Holly’s motorcycle as a 42nd birthday gift, the country music outlaw’s widow said. During a presentation of
the bike this week at the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, singer Jessi Colter described the gratitude her husband felt toward the Crickets band members for the gift in 1979. Lubbock native Holly purchased the bike in May 1958 at Ray
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