Texas warns about travel to Mexico...Oil spill on Yellowstone River

Texas authorities say a drug cartel is targeting U.S. visitors this holiday weekend and says citizens should avoid travel to a Mexican border town. The Texas Department of Public Safety and Webb County Sheriff's Office have issued a travel advisory that says the Zetas drug cartel may be planning robberies, extortions and car-jackings aimed at U.S. citizens visiting Nuevo Laredo and its suburbs.

LAUREL, Mont. (AP) — An ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River in Montana has ruptured Saturday, leaking hundreds of barrels of oil into the waterway near Billings. The break forced municipalities and irrigation districts downstream to close intakes. Crews are working to prevent a 25-mile from fouling the air and water any further. The pipeline has been shut down.

WHITMORE LAKE, Mich. (AP) — There's another hat in the Republican presidential ring. Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter has officially announced he will seek the Republican Party's nomination for president. The 45-year-old, elected to his fifth consecutive term in Congress in November, told a festival crowd near Detroit that Washington needs "someone who knows the future is not big government — it is self-government."BEIJING (AP) — Two separate mine accidents in two southern Chinese provinces continue to vex rescuers trying to reach about 40 trapped miners. There's a buildup of volatile gas in one Chinese coal mine and high levels of water in another. Chinese mines are the world's deadliest.JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Officials say there are no injuries as a central Indonesian volcano erupts in clouds of smoke and searing gas shooting nearly 20,000 feet into the air. The nearest villages are well outside the danger zone and there are no immediate evacuation plans. Indonesia is located on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.