Tejano singer Emilio Navaira critically injured

Hospitalized

Grammy-winning Tejano singer Emilio Navaira was critically injured early Sunday when the bus carrying his band, Rio, crashed on a Houston highway, officials said. Navaira, 45, was listed in critical condition at Memorial Hermann Hospital, where he was in ICU, said hospital administrator Lisa Lagrone. Seven other passengers were injured.

Wed

Sarkozy's ex remarries

Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz, 50, the former wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, was tying the knot Sunday night with events planner Richard Attias in New York, the daily Le Figaro's Internet site said Sunday. The marriage is her third.

Good intentions

No horses allowed

A man hoping to cheer up an ailing relative at a hospital in Lihue, Hawaii, hadn't considered one of the visitation rules: No horses allowed. The man, who thought the patient would enjoy seeing his stallion, rode the horse up an elevator to the third floor, where they were stopped by security.

The man's good intentions were further dashed when his relative was brought out to see the horse. "That's not my horse," the patient said to hospital staff.

Cookie defense

Driver blames Oreo

Police say a man's excuse for speeding through Salisbury, Conn., takes the cake — or, at least, the cookie. A state trooper who stopped the 1993 BMW last fall says its driver, 28-year-old Justin Vonkummer of Millerton, N.Y., blamed his driving problems on an errant Oreo. He said an Oreo had just slipped from his fingers as he dunked it in a cup of milk and he was trying to fish it out when he lost control of his car. Prosecutors learned in court this week that Vonkummer had been charged with speeding and driving under a suspended license — not driving under the influence, as a clerk had mistakenly noted in the records.

Passages

Al Copeland, 64, founder of the Popeyes Famous Fried Chicken chain who was known for his flamboyant lifestyle, died Sunday at a clinic near Munich, Germany, after being diagnosed with a malignant salivary-gland tumor.

Arbella Perkins Ewings, who at 114 was considered the oldest person in Texas, died Saturday in Dallas.

Today in History

1882: German scientist Robert Koch announced in Berlin he had discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis.

1976: The president of Argentina, Isabel Perón, was deposed by her country's military.

1980: Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was shot to death by gunmen as he celebrated Mass in El Salvador.

1989: The nation's worst oil spill occurred as the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and began leaking 11 million gallons of crude.

1998: Two students, ages 13 and 11, opened fire outside their school in Jonesboro, Ark., killing four classmates and a teacher. (Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden were imprisoned by Arkansas until age 18, then by federal authorities until age 21. Both have since been released.)

Today's Birthdays

Fashion and costume designer Bob Mackie, 68. Comedian Louie Anderson, 55. Actress Donna Pescow, 54. Actor Robert Carradine, 54. Actress Kelly LeBrock, 48. TV personality Star Jones, 46. Actress Annabella Sciorra, 44. Actress Lara Flynn Boyle, 38. Football player Peyton Manning, 32. Actress Keisha Castle-Hughes, 18.

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