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MCSO DRONE CRASHES INTO LAKE CONROE Friday morning, during training exercises with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Drone, something went wrong and it crashed into Lake Conroe. Divers from the Montgomery County Precinct 1 Dive Team spent much of the day searching the bottom of Lake Conroe for the almost $300,000 drone helicopter. The drone which was purchased by Montgomery County in 2011 was almost entirely funded by Homeland Security Grants which were specifically designated for the purchase of drones.

The Seasonal Flu Vaccine A seasonal vaccine is distributed routinely every year. •Unlike last flu season, when you needed to get two vaccines, the 2009 H1N1 and the seasonal vaccine, this flu season you only need the seasonal vaccine. •The 2010-2011 flu vaccine protects against an influenza A H3N2 virus, an influenza B virus and the 2009 H1N1 virus that caused so much illness last season.

Since "unrestricted' private ownership of guns clearly threatens the public safety, the 2nd Amendment can be interpreted to allow a variety of gun restrictions, according to the Bush administration. The argument was delivered by U.S. Solicitor General Paul D. Clement in a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in the ongoing arguments over the legality of a District of Columbia ban on handguns in homes, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times. Clement suggested that gun rights are limited and subject to "reasonable regulation" and said all federal limits on guns should be upheld.

While sometimes needling Bush, Fox applauds his onetime American counterpart for "cultural sensitivity." Several days before the attacks of Sept. 11, Fox writes, he and Bush hugged at Andrews Air Force Base after returning on Air Force One from an Ohio immigration reform rally. "We're going to get this done," Fox recalls Bush saying.

U.S. data show that moving jobs overseas hasn't hurt the economy. Here's why those stats are wrong Whenever critics of globalization complain about the loss of American jobs to low-cost countries such as China and India, supporters point to the powerful performance of the U.S. economy. And with good reason. Despite the latest slow quarter, official statistics show that America's economic output has grown at a solid 3.3% annual rate since 2003, a period when imports from low-cost countries have soared. Similarly, domestic manufacturing output has expanded at a decent pace. On the face of it, off shoring doesn't seem...

MEXICO CITY - The police chief in Chihuahua City, Mexico, and his bodyguard have been shot and killed. Prosecutors say Jose Torres and his guard were killed late Wednesday after they left a police station and headed home. Spokesman Rene Medrano says unidentified gunmen opened fire with assault rifles from a sport utility vehicle, then sped off. Officials had no motive or suspects in the case. The killing was the latest attack against police in northern Mexico, which has seen an upswing in violence due in large part to turf battles between drug gangs. In June, Alejandro Dominguez was gunned...

Nuevo Laredo Sees Another Homicide The murder count in Nuevo Laredo continues to climb. The latest homicide was discovered Monday evening. A man believed to be a municipal employee was found murdered with a bullet wound to the head at around 6:00 in the evening. The body of Hector Cuellar Torres was found near a ditch by the Piedras Negras Highway after Mexican police received a tip from an unidentified caller. The man had been shot once in the back of the head with a small caliber weapon. This brings the body count in Nuevo Laredo to 176 for the...