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IN ASCENCION, MEXICO -- In this dusty farm town, an hour south of the U.S. border, more than 40 people were abducted - one a week - in the first nine months of the year. Then, on Sept. 21, the kidnappings stopped. That was the day a gang of kidnappers with AK-47s burst into Lolo's seafood restaurant and tried to abduct the 17-year-old cashier. A mob of enraged residents chased down two of the teenage attackers and lynched them in a cotton field on the edge of town.

INDIANAPOLIS - Four men have been arrested in connection with the fatal shootings of a baby, a toddler and their mothers while the women held their children in their arms, police said Saturday. Ronald Davis and Dante Hobson, both 30, face four counts of murder, felony murder, robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery in the Jan. 14 slayings, police said at a news conference. A third suspect, Zarumin Coleman, 21, faces charges of conspiracy to commit robbery and assisting a criminal. He was arrested Thursday after a SWAT team swept an Indianapolis apartment building. Jasper Frazier, 36, was charged with...

Much of West Texas town on auction block 01/16/2003 Associated Press LANGTRY, Texas - Much of the West Texas town where a judge once dispensed justice from a saloon is on the auction block. The minimum bid on the eBay web site for the Langtry assets is $750,000. However, online bidders are advised that none of the property directly tied to the legendary Judge Roy Bean is included in the sale. Bill and Pat Dodd, owners of the Harold T. Dodd estate, possess about 80 percent of Langtry. Harold Dodd owned the entire area before Bean opened court there...