FBI tracks down Texas financier in fraud case WASHINGTON - Texas financier R. Allen Stanford was tracked down Thursday in Virginia, where FBI agents served him with legal papers in a multibillion-dollar fraud case. Stanford probe widens, Venezuela seizes bank CARACAS/ST.JOHN'S (Reuters) - U.S., Latin American and European investigators widened probes on Thursday into the far-flung financial empire of Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, accused of "massive fraud," and Venezuela seized one of his banks. 2 students killed in Oregon nightclub shooting PORTLAND, Ore. - A gunman opened fire outside an under-21 nightclub in Portland, killing two girls and wounded several other people in an apparently random act, police said.
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