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Chris Wilson caught a 14-yard scoring pass from Brian Babin to give Southeastern Louisiana a 30-27 win over Sam Houston State in overtime on Saturday night.

Julyan Stone scored 19 points and grabbed eight rebounds for Texas El-Paso, which beat Texas Southern 69-63 on Friday night in a season opener.

Line: UTEP by 10 1/2. Series Record: SMU leads 9-6. Last Meeting: 2007, UTEP 48-45. UTEP has to win 2 of its final three games to become bowl eligible.

November has typically been a month when UTEP opponents give thanks for a victory against a Miner team that usually is spiraling.

Leslie Westbrook / Daily Advertiser UTEP running back Daniel Palmer was brought down after gaining several yards during the Miners game against the Ragin' Cajuns on Saturday night in Lafayette, La.

Police have named Helaman "Doez" Quinonez, 17, of the 9100 block of Morelia, as the suspect in the city's latest homicide, according to a police news release.

Animal control officers found about 100 dead cats wrapped in foil in three refrigerators in a woman's house, as well as five live dogs and other live cats, according to a police report.

Series Record: Teams have never played. UTEP needs to win 3 of its last four games to become bowl eligible.

Look for that extra line on the court this year, a line that might cause a wee bit of confusion and a line that might possibly make a big difference.

There is no magic formula that's suddenly going to help UTEP's beleaguered defense grow teeth.

UTEP head coach Mike Price discusses the past week's game against the Rice Owls that gave the Miners its fifth loss of the season with a 49-44 defeat Saturday night in the Sun Bowl.

It was a night of dueling quarterbacks on a cool November evening in the Sun Bowl.

Two men suffered stab wounds that were not considered life-threatening early Saturday outside of an East Side bar, police said.

The Houston Astros are freezing 2009 ticket prices at 2008 levels. The ticket prices at Minute Maid Park will range from $7 for adults and $1 for children for upper deck tickets in the left and right field ...

Kendall County authorities are searching for clues to the identity of a man whose headless body was found in some brush near the Guadalupe River in a rural area of the county.

Economic times may not be that tough for a suspected bank robber in the Dallas area.

UTEP junior DL Brandis Dew sustained a herniated disk in his neck in practice on Wednesday that will end his football career, UTEP said Friday in a news release.

Asha Mandela has hair that could rival Rapunzel's. The South Florida woman who started growing her hair 20 years ago now has locks longer than she is tall.

This UTEP football team has been to hell before and popped out whole, so given where it has been, a 77-35 loss to Tulsa isn't the worst thing it has seen.

After hoping early in the week that UTEP's injury list would be contained to backup tight end Jonny Moore, the Miners could be thin at linebacker Saturday.