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HOUSTON -- Grammy-winning Tejano singer Emilio Navaira's survival was in doubt Monday after the tour bus that police said he was not licensed to drive crashed on a freeway, leaving him with serious head injuries."There is a chance he may not make it," said Dr. Alex Valadka, director of neurotrauma services at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center and vice chair of neurosciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston."Everyone needs to understand that right up front. That's how bad it is."Navaira, 45, known to his fans simply as Emilio, was removed from the bus that wrecked before dawn...

Tuesday, May 22, 2007Emilio Gonzales — Baby Emilio to the world — was born blind, deaf and with a fatal and incurable disease, but he posed a deeply troubling question in his 19 short months of life.Baby Emilio was the intersection where medical ethics, parental rights, politics and the common good collided. He passed away last weekend as his mother, Catarina Gonzales, and her attorney fought to keep Children's Hospital of Austin from disconnecting the respirator that had been keeping him alive.Doctors at Children's Hospital diagnosed Emilio with Leigh's disease, a fatal condition that causes the central nervous system to...