Grammy winner Navaira injured
Grammy-winning Tejano singer Emilio Navaira was critically injured when his band’s bus crashed on a highway in the Houston metro area, city and hospital officials said, reports AP from Houston.
Navaira and his band Rio had performed at a Houston nightclub on Saturday night. At about 5 am on Sunday, the band’s bus slammed into traffic barrels on Interstate 610 northbound in Bellaire, a well-to-do enclave within the city west of downtown Houston, Bellaire police Sgt Daniel Kerr said.

Man spends half his life in jail
For more than two decades behind bars, Willie Earl Green worked hard on his education, married his pen-pal and never stopped trying to prove he was innocent in the execution-style murder of a single mother, AP reports from Los Angeles.
The sole prosecution witness came forward four years ago, saying he was not sure he had identified the right man. Last week, a judge tossed out Green’s conviction. Even though he spent nearly half of his life in prison, the 56-year-old, soft-spoken man is at peace with himself. “I was wrongly accused, I’m out now, I’m not bitter, I’m happy.”
 This is the best thing that ever happened to me right here,” Green said as he left the courthouse.
Owner wants to clone prized bull
The owner of a bull which sired some of the most celebrated fighters in Spain has turned to science to preserve its precious genes, PTI reports from New York. Vicotriano Del Rio has hired a United States based genomics company ViaGen to clone the stud. The company will take cells from the aging bull next month in the hope of producing a double which will cost Rio about USD 50,000 inclusive of travel expenses.
“This bull is a genius,” Del Rio was quoted as saying. Alcalde sires about 40 bulls a year, and an unusually high proportion of those turn out to be top fighters. Scientists will take the nucleus of a somatic, or nonreproductive, cell from Alcalde and insert it into an egg cell from a cow, from which the nucleus has been removed. The resulting embryo will be grown in an incubator and then implanted in a cow to develop.
US man pleads guilty to hate crime
A 21-year-old American man who attacked a Sikh taxi driver and called him a “terrorist” is facing two years in prison after he pleaded guilty to hate crime charges, PTI reports from Silicon Valley.
Luis Arturo Vazquez pleaded guilty this week to second-degree assault and malicious harassment for the November attack, which left Sukhvir Singh (48) with a concussion, cuts, bite marks on his scalp and other injuries. Prosecutors in the Washington state will ask for a two-year jail term when Vazquez is sentenced on April 18, Seattle Post Intelligencer reported.
Celebrities’ moms tell all
Mothers of famous celebrities, including directors Steven Spielberg and Brett Ratner, have revealed embarrassing details of their children in the book Mother Nature: Life Lessons from the Mothers of America’s Best and Brightest, IANS reports from New York.
Pagesix.com reports that Ratner’s mom admitted she coddled, pampered and embarrassed him when he went to direct X Men: The Last Stand and the Rush Hour trilogy. Leah Adler, Spielberg’s mother, recalls him making movies at home as a teen but says she thought he would get a job in a supermarket as a carryout boy.
Jackson family in the dumps
The famous Jackson family are in the dumps with most of them sliding into obscurity, IANS reports from New York. Tmz.com reports that now some of the members are working in supermarkets stocking shelves and even on cars as mechanics. The most famous one, Michael, is about to lose his Neverland ranch as well as the family home in Encino.
Sister Janet seems to be the only one doing well. She has a new album out and bought her mom a house in Las Vegas in anticipation of losing the family mansion to foreclosure. In spite of all this, their father Joe said: “We can get back out there and set the world on fire. If the Rolling Stones can still rake in the money, so too can my boys.”