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• HEARNE, Texas (AP) -- Friends say 93-year-old Pearlie Golden still shopped at the grocery store and greeted friends with a jubilant "Hey, baby!" Now they and the mayor of this small Texas town want the police officer who shot and killed her gone.
• The fatal shooting of "Miss Sulie" -- as residents say she was widely known -- has raised tensions in Hearne and the Texas Rangers are investigating what led the officer to fire on Golden while responding to a 911 call at her house this week.
• Hearne police have said in a statement that Golden "brandished a gun" when officer Stephen Stem arrived Tuesday night. Dozens of protesters, including some who came in from Houston, marched to police headquarters on Thursday and were met there by Mayor Ruben Gomez, who said he will recommend that the officer be fired during Saturday's City Council meeting.
• "It's a loss of confidence in the community. We can't have an officer the citizens have lost confidence in," Gomez said.
• Hearne is home to about 4,500 people surrounded by cotton farms and railways, one of which backs up to Gordon's brick home.
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• NEW YORK (AP) -- For nearly three years, Jadeveon Clowney couldn't wait to get to the NFL, and the league was just as eager to add the player some called the best defensive prospect in a decade.
• No surprise: Clowney is the Texans' man.
• But Thursday's first pick of the NFL draft didn't come without some intrigue about how it would all turn out. There had been criticism of Clowney's work ethic last season and questions about whether the Texans would hold or trade the No. 1 slot.
• "I just been proving a lot of people wrong throughout my life," Clowney said. "Growing up, I grew up hard. I always said I'm going to do something great. Hopefully, I'm going to be a Hall of Famer one day."
• Houston will take that.
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