Racers in stilettos will dash through Downtown Waco this Saturday for a fundraising event to raise awareness about breast cancer.

Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. That was Vice President Joe Biden’s message for Republican Mitt Romney in a campaign speech Thursday that blended a robust defense of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy record with a harsh attack on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s positions.

A local businessman who investigators called a “kingpin” on the South Texas cockfighting circuit was slapped with a $1.25 million bond on Thursday even though he isn’t suspected in the fatal shootings at a cockfight last week that helped lead authorities to his doorstep.

The first-graders in Ohio Pack 109’s Tiger Scouts didn’t know or care their den mother was a lesbian — at least not until the Boy Scouts of America threw her out over the organization’s ban on gays.