DALLAS (AP) — After Jack Ruby made a huge splash by killing Lee Harvey Oswald on live television, Joyce Gordon became a ripple.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — If every life is a story, then every burial plot, every tombstone silently holds the secrets.
Danny Camacho’s job is to make the dead speak.
How did they meet their fate? How did their deaths affect their families? What does death reveal about forgotten times and places in early Austin? These are the questions Camacho ponders in the bowels of the Austin History Center as he researches the stories that fill “Murder, Mayhem and Misadventure,” a walking tour and Halloween fundraiser for Save Austin’s Cemeteries that spotlights 19th- and early 20th-century murders and untimely deaths.
The third annual tour is Saturday at Oakwood Cemetery, a 40-acre resting ground at 1601 Navasota St. in East Austin. Established in 1839, when it was known simply as City Cemetery, it is the oldest of Austin’s five city-owned burial grounds.

SAN MIGUEL, Ariz. (AP) — A pickup truck in Mexico pulls up to the 5-foot vehicle barriers that make up part of the multibillion-dollar border fence. A retractable ramp is extended from the truck, forming a bridge up and over the barriers.
Then, a second pickup — this one loaded with a ton of marijuana — rolls over the bridge and into the U.S.
With gadgetry such as custom-built ramps as well as ultralight planes, false doors and good old-fashioned duct tape, smugglers have demonstrated unbounded creativity when it comes to sneaking drugs across the Mexican border. And the U.S. government acknowledges there is only so much it can do to stop the flow.

DALLAS (AP) — Down the long aisle at Concord Church, set off this Sunday by a soft, white border draped from pew to pew, the bride walked with stately deliberation, the crowd’s applause ringing out as she glided toward her groom.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The company that has exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic is planning a possible expedition to the world’s most famous shipwreck in 2010.

BAYTOWN, Texas (AP) — Larisa and Marisa Coy know what it’s like to be a student in Baytown schools. Now they’re learning what it’s like in the front of the classroom.

EDITOR’S NOTE: In honor of all of the courageous cancer survivors out there, I wanted to share what exactly a cancer patient goes through during their treatments — their feelings and their highs and lows.
My cousin Pam Carpenter Mason was diagnosed with breast cancer in March. As of September, she finished all of her treatments and is considered cancer-free.
She was kind enough to allow me to print a portion of her online journal of which I cut bits and pieces from (unedited) to show you, through a cancer patient’s eyes, what happens. You can read all of Mason’s journal entries at here— Cheril Vernon
Community Editor

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) — Optimistic, check.
Nonsmoker, check.
Socially active, check.
Effie Caffee exhibits many of the trademark signs of centenarians, but if you ask the Burkburnett resident for her secrets to living to be 107, she will tell you she has only one.
“Good genes!”

HOUSTON (AP) — In just 40 minutes, Cafe Mirabeau would fill with hungry patrons — and every dish needed to be delectable, every plate a model of perfect presentation.