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POPSHarlingen Police Officer "Ambushed" Upgraded From Critical To Fair Osborne and Rubio described the shooting as an "ambush." Osborne did not say how many gunshot wounds Diaz suffered, but said he was shot multiple times in the right shoulder and forearm. One bullet grazed Diaz's head. Diaz's condition was upgraded from critical to fair early Thursday. Harlingen Assistant Police Chief Luciano Rubio confirmed that Mexican authorities helped capture Mar on Thursday in Mexico and then transferred him to U.S. custody. The FBI, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Harlingen and Brownsville police departments assisted in retrieving him from Mexico, Rubio said. Mar was being held at the Brownsville Police Department Thursday, Rubio said. Authorities planned to keep him there overnight and hold his arraignment this morning either in Harlingen or Brownsville. Police obtained a warrant for Mar on a charge of attempted capital murder.
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POPSDallas Mom Hurls Sons, Ages 8 And 6 From Freeway Overpass "She was not fleeing for her safety," Cerda said. "She just threw them over and decided to throw herself over." Her father had to make a U-turn to follow her in the car and by the time he reached the scene Busby "had picked up the kids and thrown herself over," Cerda said.
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POPSDoes A Rapist Deserve A Military Burial? "We tell ourselves that the moral ambiguities demonstrated by soldiers who have gone to battle on our behalf cannot be understood by, or be subject to the laws that govern, the rest of us. But the policies our military establishes to respond to violence against women are not merely abstractions. They are expressions of the military's values, and our own."