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• Andrade to be secretary of state

  Gov. Rick Perry has named former transportation commissioner Esperanza "Hope" Andrade as Texas' new secretary of state.

• Dolly knocks out power to nearly 53,000 South Texas residents

  Hurricane Dolly has left nearly 53,000 residents in three South Texas counties without power.

• Authorities seek indicted polygamist sect members

  Texas authorities on Wednesday began looking for five indicted members of a polygamist sect, in a child sex-abuse case that the group's spokesman alleged was a face-saving move by officials who lost a court battle over their seizure of hundreds of children from a sect-owned ranch.

• Air Force says no survivors of B-52 crash off Guam

  The Air Force says all six crew members aboard a B-52 bomber that crashed Monday off Guam were killed.

• AP News Alert

  Forecasters say Hurricane Dolly weakens to Category 1 storm with 95 mph winds.

• FEMA seeks immunity from suits over trailer fumes

  The Federal Emergency Management Agency asked a federal judge Wednesday for immunity from lawsuits over potentially dangerous fumes in government-issued trailers that have housed tens of thousands of Gulf Coast hurricane victims.

• Herseth Sandlin expecting first child in December

  South Dakota Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin is expecting her first child in late December.

• Nevada senator plans polygamy task force bill

  A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the Nevada lawmaker plans to introduce legislation for a federal polygamy task force.

• AP News Alert

  Forecasters say Hurricane Dolly makes landfall as Category 2 storm in South Texas.

• Survey: Gas and violence among hurricane worries

  Nearly one-fourth of people in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina would refuse to evacuate for a storm if told to, a survey released Wednesday by Harvard University found.

• AP News Alert

  Report shows 2 Texas high school athletes test positive in first year of steroid testing.

• Dolly strengthens to Category 2 hurricane

  Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say Hurricane Dolly has strengthened to a Category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds near 100 mph.

• AP News Alert

  Forecasters say Hurricane Dolly strengthens to Category 2 storm with 100 mph winds off Texas .

• Arrest leads to woman's ring, fiance died in Iraq

  A Dallas woman whose soldier fiance died in a bombing in Iraq has her engagement ring back after an arrest in a burglary investigation.

• Collision closes Mississippi River at New Orleans

  The Coast Guard closed a 12-mile stretch of the Mississippi River at New Orleans after a collision early Wednesday between a tugboat pushing one barge and a 600-foot tanker.

• Jail escapee nabbed swimming in Houston hotel pool

  A slimmed-down murder suspect who fled jail by slipping through a vent has been caught after a dip in a hotel pool on a hot summer night in Houston.

• Dallas-area podiatrist gets prison in Internet drug scam

  A federal judge in Dallas has ordered nearly 3 1/2 years in prison for a podiatrist convicted in an Internet-related drug scheme.

• 2 raids on Dallas-area swingers club

  A swingers club in suburban Dallas has been raided for a second time within days.

• Air Force B-52 crash kills Austin-born pilot

  Maj. Christopher Cooper, a 33-year-old Austin-born pilot, was among those killed this week in the crash of a B-52 bomber, 30 miles northwest of Guam's Apra Harbor, his father said.

• Texas inmate set to die for slaying mom, child

  Condemned prisoner Derrick Sonnier was being returned to the Texas death house Wednesday, seven weeks after a court order spared him from lethal injection and returned him to a cell on death row.