Armstrong solid; Cancellara wins Tour's 1st stage
MONACO (AP) -- Lance Armstrong put in a solid performance in his comeback at the Tour de France on Saturday, finishing the first stage ahead of 170 riders many years younger and a respectable 10th behind winner Fabian Cancellara....

Thunderous Okla. applause greets Bush on July 4
WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) -- Former President George W. Bush was greeted by thunderous applause on the Fourth of July as he told thousands of spectators in a rural Oklahoma rodeo arena that the U.S. was "the greatest nation on the face of the earth."...

Soldier who fought in pink boxers home for the 4th
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- The soldier who was photographed fighting the Taliban in his pink boxer shorts said Saturday he was glad to be back home in Texas after his yearlong deployment to Afghanistan - especially for the Fourth of July....

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....

Soldier who fought in pink boxers home for Fourth
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- A week before he was to go away to college on an ROTC scholarship, Zachary Boyd shocked his parents: He wasn't going....

Pricey 'Dallas' TV show fundraiser being planned
DALLAS (AP) -- Two cast members of the TV show "Dallas" say they will not participate in a fundraiser being planned New Year's Eve in Florida that has outraged some fans because of steep ticket prices....

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....

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....

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....