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	Texas Men Urge Priest Abuse Victims to Speak out & Nightly Roundup KERA October 21, 2009 http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kera/news.newsmain/article/1/0/1568761/North.Texas/Texas.Men.Urge.Priest.Abuse.Victims.To.Speak.Out..and..Nightly.Roundup Two Dallas-area men who were part of a $4.6 million settlement over alleged sexual abuse by a now-deceased Catholic priest are urging other victims to speak out. Robert Sanchez and Jaime Cantu made their first public comments Wednesday since they and four other men reached a deal in their case against the Catholic Diocese of Dallas and the Oklahoma religious order of the late Rev. Thomas Behnke. Behnke worked in Dallas in the 1970s and 1980s. He was accused of abusing boys around the time they were sixth-graders. The Dallas diocese agreed to pay $500,000, with insurance covering most of that amount. Behnke's religious order, the Discalced Carmelite Friars of the Oklahoma Province of St. Therese, will pay the rest. NTSB set to consider findings on deadly bus crash The National Transportation Safety Board says it will meet next week to discuss its investigation into the bus crash that killed 17 members of Houston's Vietnamese community. The public meeting Tuesday in Washington, D.C., will examine how a coach carrying 55 passengers to a Catholic retreat in Missouri in August 2008 skidded off the highway near Sherman, 60 miles north of Dallas. The bus veered off the road when a retreaded tire on the right front axle deflated. Federal regulations prohibit retreads from being used on the front of buses. Law enforcement officials have said preliminary reports from the NTSB indicate that the tire failed because of a puncture and not necessarily because it was a retread. Teacher wins DeGeneres' Dallas giveaway A Richardson teacher has won a new car in a giveaway from "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in Dallas. Joan Foster was among fans of the comedian who gathered Tuesday at a Dallas car dealership for a chance to win a new car. Foster ended up holding the lucky key for the 2010 GMC Terrain. The Dallas Morning News reports that the segment will air on DeGeneres' show on Wednesday. Starting Monday night, a Twitter account for DeGeneres' daytime talk show sent out tweets about the giveaway. Finally, a message directed fans to Sewell GMC. Baden Rowland, general manager of Sewell GMC, brought the show to Dallas. He wrote a letter to DeGeneres last week. GMC donated the car. Investigators allege clerk took lottery winnings Investigators say they believe a 25-year-old convenience store clerk claimed $1 million in lottery winnings that belonged to a customer, then disappeared. A Travis County grand jury indicted Pankaj Joshi in September on one count of claiming a lottery prize by fraud. The charge is a second-degree felony, punishable by a maximum of 20 years in prison if there's a conviction. Joshi worked at the Lucky Food Store outside Dallas. His co-workers say they never saw him play the lottery, according to a search warrant affidavit. When Joshi quit his job at the store and claimed a $1 million lottery jackpot in Austin, Joshi's co-workers were suspicious and told investigators. The Austin American-Statesman reported on the case Wednesday.
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