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Masked gunmen killed three men and wounded eight others when they opened fire on an illegal cockfighting ring behind a remote farmhouse about 20 miles northeast of McAllen, Texas, creating what Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino called “the crime scene from hell.”

A study by the independent Commonwealth Fund found one in four working-age Americans, about 48 million people, went without insurance at some point in 2011, often as a result of unemployment and other job changes.

Homeless Clifford W. Eagle, 53, walked up to a policeman in Montana and confessed to involvement in the murder...