By KERA News & Wire Services
Dallas, TX –
Police are appealing for public help in identifying the gunman who fatally gunned down an armored truck guard at a drive-thru ATM at a Dallas bank.
Senior Cpl. Janice Crowther says 46-year-old Cresencio Borquez was loading money into the machine about 9:30 a.m. Friday at a Chase bank in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas. A gunman approached and grabbed Borquez from behind, the guard tried to get away and he was shot dead.
Crowther says the gunman then fled in a waiting white Honda sedan bearing Texas license tags numbered 676-FZD. She says the man is also suspected of involvement in another bank robbery in Dallas last month in which tags bearing the same number were seen on a white Pontiac used in the getaway.
Ex-first lady staying busy with memoirs
Laura Bush and a surprise escort helped raise money in Dallas for a famed Houston cancer center. She was the guest of honor at a fundraising luncheon for the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at Houston.
Joining her were her husband, former President George W. Bush, and daughter Jenna Bush Hager.
Before the luncheon, the former first lady said she and her husband enjoyed being back in Dallas, where they've made their home. She said they're both staying busy working on their respective memoirs.
Earlier Friday, Hager made her on-air debut as a correspondent for NBC's "Today" program that originated from the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.
Gates, Visack to eulogize Borlaug Oct. 6
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack are to eulogize Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug at his memorial next month.
Texas A&M University spokeswoman Kathleen Phillips says Gates and Vilsack will be joined by longtime Borlaug friend M.S. Swaminathan, a member of India's Parliament.
The ceremony is scheduled for 11 a.m. Oct. 6 at Rudder Auditorium on the Texas A&M University campus in College Station. Borlaug died Saturday at his Dallas home of complications of cancer.
Borlaug was on the Texas A&M University faculty when Gates served as the school's president. Vilsack is a former governor of Borlaug's native Iowa.
Known as the father of the "green revolution," Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger.
Overuse of denture cream with zinc sparks lawsuits
Hundreds of people are suing Procter & Gamble Co., which makes Fixodent, and GlaxoSmithKline, maker of PoliGrip -- over use of denture cream.
At least 25 lawsuits from 11 states have been consolidated for pretrial hearings before a federal judge in Miami. The companies say denture cream containing zinc is safe when used as directed.
The lawsuits claim the products are defective, the companies failed to adequately warn people about the potential dangers and no corrective steps were taken.
A 2008 report in the medical journal Neurology discussed a possible link between denture cream zinc and nerve damage. Doctors at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas described four patients who used excessive amounts of denture cream. All had various nerve-related disorders.
The UT researchers say their report did not prove denture cream caused the problems -- but concluded the issue needs further study.
Texas group derides scent IDs as junk science
Texas advocates for the wrongly convicted are going after a sheriff's deputy who says his trained dogs have sniffed out bad guys in more than 2,000 scent identification lineups.
The Innocence Project of Texas says it will release a report next week that exposes scent identification as junk science that's led to an untold number of wrongful convictions. The group argues that scent lineups should be inadmissible in court, and it dismisses what Fort Bend County Sheriff's Deputy Keith Pikett does as "dog whispering."
Pikett also faces two federal lawsuits from men implicated in the dog handler's scent lineups. Charges were later dropped in both cases.
Pikett's attorney said his client believe the scent IDs are accurate.