Food distributors across the country, including one in Dallas, announced Thursday that they are recalling nonfat dry milk, cocoa and other products that are linked to a possible salmonella contamination at a Plainview, Minn., milk processor.

Among the recalls announced Thursday was CPI Foods Inc., of Dallas, recalled about 15,000 packets of nonfat dry milk from Plainview Milk Products Cooperative. CPI said the packets are parts of CPI Foods shelf-stable meal kits distributed to community service companies in Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, among other states.

ABILENE – An Abilene teenager has been sentenced to life in prison for beating a homeless man to death in a trash bin.

Sixteen-year-old Michael Martinez Jr. was tried as an adult in the 2007 death of 48-year-old Eric McMahon. During the trial, Martinez testified that he was drunk and had left a party when he saw McMahon in a trash container.

ORANGE, Texas – Authorities arrested a man Thursday on a capital murder charge in the 1995 death of a woman whose body parts were found in the Sabine River.

James Edward Holden, 41, is accused of killing Theresa Foskey, a Bridge City woman who was 28 when she was reported missing from her bloodstained mobile home.

A youth choir from a Fort Worth church the Southern Baptist Convention cut ties with because it didn't adhere to the denomination's stance on homosexuals has been told it isn't welcome to participate in a Kentucky Baptist mission program.

The Broadway Baptist Church Chapel Choir, made up of high-schoolers, was informed Monday that it was "uninvited" to participate in the University of the Cumberlands' Mountain Outreach program, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. Broadway Church officials said that, instead of going to Kentucky, the choir of 25 teenagers will leave today for First Baptist Church of Nashville, Tenn.

EL PASO – El Paso businessman Bob Jones pleaded guilty Thursday to bribing county and school officials in a widespread corruption case.

Jones, 63, is the former president of the National Center for the Employment of the Disabled. He and two other center officials were accused of embezzling millions of dollars from government programs.

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