Cancellara wins first Tour de France stage
MONACO (AP) -- Seven-time champion Lance Armstrong went out early and put up a solid time in the opening stage of the Tour de France on Saturday, then was upstaged by Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland....

Soldier who fought in pink boxers home for Fourth
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- The soldier who fought the Taliban in his boxers says he's glad to be back home in Fort Worth -- especially on the Fourth of July -- after his yearlong deployment to Afghanistan....

Texas state inmates use fans to beat the heat
RIVERSIDE, Texas (AP) -- Only 19 of 112 Texas state prisons are air-conditioned, leaving most of the state's 155,000 prisoners and those who guard them to face the summer heat with fans and primitive air-circulating systems....

TSA agent arrested after avoiding screening in NJ
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A Transportation Security Administration agent was arrested at a New Jersey airport after authorities say she avoided a pre-flight screening and boarded a plane....

Man killed setting up for computer street sale
DALLAS (AP) -- A man is dead after shots were fired into a crowd of vendors setting up for a sidewalk computer street sale in downtown Dallas....

Chicken farming growing trend in suburbia
DALLAS (AP) -- Some North Texas residents are going clucky over chickens, bringing the farm fowl home to raise in their backyards....

Pricey fundraiser planned for TV show 'Dallas'
DALLAS (AP) -- Some fans of the TV show "Dallas" are outraged by the pricey tickets being planned for a fundraiser in Florida featuring a few members of the cast....

Small town America pins hopes on West trade route
LIMON, Colo. (AP) -- For Joe Kiely, the drone of thousands of trucks passing his Colorado plains town signals economic prosperity....

Father, son pastry chefs share bond
DALLAS (AP) -- Fathers and sons often have powerful bonds...

Texas brewer, once near defeat, still shines
SHINER, Texas (AP) -- By all accounts, Shiner beer shouldn't have made it this long. The Spoetzl Brewery ferments its brew in a one-stoplight town that's not on the way to anywhere, and much larger regional brewers long ago succumbed to consolidation and the muscle of national brewers....