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HOUSTON — A group of Hispanic leaders said Tuesday that Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo officials haven't done enough to include Hispanics, so they are calling for a boycott of the three-week show that starts Monday. "We request our friends across the whole state of Texas not to attend the Houston Livestock Show," said former state Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos. Among complaints from the newly-formed group VIVE Tejano-Houston — made up of representatives from the Tejano music industry, Houston-area politicians and members of other professional organizations — is the type of performers at the show's main venue on Go Tejano Day....

One of the suspects sought to join Texas Syndicate, affidavit states A Port Isabel fisherman was lured to his death in a West Brownsville park late Monday during a man’s initiation into a Texas prison gang, according to court records released Thursday. Brownsville police on Wednesday arrested Jose Miguel Vasquez Jr., 39, and Andres Garcia, 25, on murder charges in the stabbing death of 47-year-old George Garza. A probable cause affidavit released after their Thursday morning arraignment states that the two men used a knife to stab Garza to death as part of Garcia’s initiation into the Texas Syndicate prison...

Even after 10 years, singer's death still confounds fans. By Michael Corcoran AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Thursday, March 31, 2005 CORPUS CHRISTI — Felix Madrigal recalls the solemn procession of cars after his neighbor, 23-year-old singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez, was shot and killed 10 years ago today. After the news hit with the numbing thud of disbelief, hundreds gathered outside the Quintanilla family's three-house compound in the working class Molina subdivision, lighting candles, leaving flowers and sticking messages in the chain-link fence. "Everybody was in shock. It was eerie, so quiet," Madrigal said of the day that would be known as "Black Friday"...

For 90 years, most Mexican Americans in South Texas have known the truth behind the myth — that during a reign of terror in 1915, Texas Rangers randomly lynched, shot and killed Tejanos, whose farms, ranches and land were coveted by Anglo land speculators. Kirby Warnock, an Anglo baby boomer and Dallas filmmaker who grew up in Texas watching "The Lone Ranger," also grew up on alternative stories about the Rangers from his grandfather, Roland Warnock, a cowboy who worked on Guadalupe Ranch near Edinburg in the mid-1900s. On Sept. 30, 1915, Roland Warnok witnessed the murder of two unarmed...