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HOUSTON — Houston Texans offensive lineman Fred Weary was shot with a Taser before being arrested Tuesday after a traffic stop. He was pulled over at 1 p.m. about six miles from Reliant Stadium and transported to jail. Houston Police officer Gabriel Ortiz said he "possibly faces charges of resisting arrest." Weary, 29, was being held at Houston's Central Jail on Tuesday night but had not been charged with a crime, and no bond had been set, a jail official said. "At this time, we're gathering all the information and getting all the facts," said Tony Wyllie, Texans' vice...

DENVER (AP) -- Bill Romanowski says he stayed one step ahead of the NFL's drug policy during his 16-year career, always taking nutritional supplements that the league had not yet banned. "As soon as they found out that something could be tested for, I stopped taking it. I didn't want that embarrassment, but I pushed that envelope ethically and morally because if I could take something that would help me perform better and it wasn't on the list, I was going to take it," Romanowski said in an interview published Tuesday in the Rocky Mountain News. "I had two criteria:...

<p>PINSON, Ala. (AP) -- A Pinson man was charged with attempted murder for holding a gun to his son's head and pulling the trigger in the midst of a tantrum after Alabama's double overtime loss to Arkansas Saturday, authorities said.</p>