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PINE VALLEY – A race to avoid the Border Patrol yesterday ended when a speeding car flipped and ejected five passengers, killing one of them, authorities said. Three of the four survivors were hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, said Officer Brian Pennings of the California Highway Patrol. The fourth survivor was less seriously injured. The car, a blue Ford Probe, failed to stop at a checkpoint on westbound Interstate 8 east of Pine Valley, said Richard Kite of the Border Patrol. He said agents headed after the Probe and came upon it, overturned, on Olde Highway 80 just west of Pine...

CORPUS CHRISTI -- Autopsy results will determine if a 34-year-old man suspected of killing four people fatally shot himself or was killed by police gunfire during a confrontation. Donald Wilcox died Wednesday morning outside a motel room in Flour Bluff when members of a SWAT team opened fire on him after he pointed a pistol at officers. It appeared that Wilcox shot himself in the face with his .45.-caliber pistol as he fell to the ground, said police, who aren't sure which shots killed Wilcox. "We are certain that we at least hit the individual with some of the gunfire,"...