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UPDATE: Motorcycle Rider Killed in Gruesome Crash
By: Fox S.A. Staff

A motorcycle rider died in a gruesome crash on San Antonio's southwest side.

Witnesses told police Oscar Castilla Cobos, 20, was going more than a hundred miles an hours and weaving in and out of traffic down Interstate 35 near Somerset road Sunday afternoon.

Cobos apparently lost control and slid into a guardrail.

Police say he hit the guardrail so hard the man was sliced in half.

He died instantly.UPDATE: Motorcycle Rider Killed in Gruesome Crash

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Appeal seeks halt to Texas woman's execution
June 19, 2013 15:39 GMT

By MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press

HOUSTON (AP) -- The lawyer for a Dallas County woman set to die next week has appealed to block her execution.

Kimberly McCarthy on June 26 would be the first woman put to death in the U.S. since 2010 and the 500th prisoner executed in Texas since the death penalty resumed in 1982.

The 52-year-old former nursing home therapist was condemned for the 1997 fatal stabbing, beating and robbery of a 71-year-old neighbor, Dorothy Booth.

McCarthy's appeal late Tuesday in state courts contends black jurors were improperly excluded from her trial, and her lawyers should have challenged the exclusions. Lawyer Maurie Levin says the punishment should be stopped in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision backing another Texas prisoner who raised similar arguments about attorney competence.

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Asian markets were mostly lower today as investors waited for an update on the U.S. economy from the U.S. Federal Reserve.

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