Texas

NFL stadium: A Sept. 20 article on the state-of-the-art features of a new stadium for the Dallas Cowboys incorrectly reported that the stadium's site, Arlington, Texas, is south of Dallas. Arlington is west of Dallas.

Re "The California Fix: A deficit of rationality," and "The California Fix: The Golden State isn't worth it," Opinion, Nov. 1 Rebecca Solnit is a classic left-wing redistributionist. According to her, California would have plenty of everything if only it weren't for those small-minded farmers, selfish millionaires and greedy corporations. Solnit has no idea how to create wealth, only how to spread it around. If California ever gets into the hands of Solnit and her ilk, it will be a place where everyone is equal -- equally poor, equally hungry, equally devastated.

College football: A listing in Sunday's Sports section said the University of Texas record for 473 yards passing in a game belongs to Texas quarterbacks coach Major Applewhite. Applewhite does hold the record, from the 2001 Holiday Bowl against Washington, but he coaches running backs. The listing also said both touchdown passes in the Longhorns game went to Jordan Shipley, who had 11 catches for a school-record 273 yards. Shipley made 11 catches, but only one went for a touchdown. James Kirkendoll caught the other touchdown pass for Texas.

A man convicted of fatally stabbing and beating a 70-year-old man was executed in Huntsville, becoming the 19th inmate put to death in the state this year. Lorenzo Morris, 52, made no final statement. As the drugs began to flow, Morris closed his eyes, took one deep breath and sputtered. He was pronounced dead six minutes later. Two of victim Jesse Fields' granddaughters and his daughter witnessed the execution. Morris' family visited with him earlier in the day but did not attend the execution.

Leaders in a small Texas border city said Wednesday that they felt blindsided after learning that a judge had ordered public land turned over temporarily to the federal government as it works on a fence along the border with Mexico. U.S. District Judge Alia Moses Ludlum ordered Eagle Pass to surrender 233 acres of city-owned land. The Justice Department had sued for access to the land Monday. Ludlum's ruling came the same day, before the city could muster a challenge.

A Texas mayor who admitted stealing her neighbor's Shih Tzu was indicted Friday on felony charges -- a serious turn in a canine custody drama that has become the butt of jokes in the Lone Star State. Grace Saenz-Lopez, the mayor of Alice, was indicted on charges of concealing and falsifying evidence by a Jim Wells County grand jury. Each count is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The mayor filed a report with police Jan.

The day after a grand jury indicted a Texas Supreme Court justice on arson-related charges, the district attorney here had the case dismissed, arguing there was insufficient evidence to move forward. The unusual action Friday by Harris County Dist. Atty. Chuck Rosenthal in the case against Justice David Medina and his wife outraged two members of the grand jury, who called it a blatant example of politics trumping justice. Both Medina and Rosenthal are Republicans.

A bizarre legal battle was effectively ended Tuesday when a judge ruled that a grand jury that had indicted a Texas Supreme Court justice over the prosecutor's objections was operating with improperly filed paperwork, the justice's attorney and the grand jury foreman said. The mistake, made when the Harris County district attorney's office extended the grand jury's term in November, invalidated all indictments issued after that, District Judge Jim Wallace ruled.

HOUSTON -- When the team bus pulls up at Reliant Stadium this evening and Coach Hugo Sanchez and the players on the Mexican national soccer team disembark, another milestone will have been reached. For the fifth consecutive year, the Tricolor will be on tour in a country where it is every bit as welcome and as well-supported as it is in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey or anywhere else "El Tri" travels.

In a bid to overcome angry resistance to the government's planned border barrier, federal officials have agreed to run a contested section close to the Rio Grande rather than slice through miles of private land. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced the agreement with Hidalgo County officials Friday, hailing it as a precedent that could be echoed in other parts of the state where resistance to the barrier has been most intense. "It's a great model for what we can do," he said.