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FORT WORTH, Texas -- Less than 24 hours after their oldest child was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and murder, Carlos and Gloria Zamora flew to New York for an early-morning appearance on the "Today" show.Later that day -- Wednesday -- word reached New York that Diane had cut her arm with a razor blade and was under a 24-hour suicide watch. Gloria Zamora then made a second New York television appearance. This time, it was CNN's "Larry King Live," where they were joined by Diane's lead defense attorney, John Linebarger.

FORT WORTH, Texas -- It's said that Hollywood producers subscribe to Texas Monthly magazine to keep track of stories to convert into bizarre movie plots.The case of Diane Zamora, accused of killing a teen love rival, seems to fit the state's reputation. And the pretrial hype seemed to indicate her capital murder trial would reach O. J. Simpson-like proportions.Court TV network fought for the right to air the trial. The judge in the case agreed to let a newspaper photographer and Court TV's camera operator into his courtroom.

FORT WORTH, Texas -- In the year leading to today's trial of Diane Zamora, lawyers on both sides have proclaimed that it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the defendant in such a high-profile murder case to receive a fair trial in her hometown.But the prosecution's attempt to move the trial failed, and the defense has failed in its efforts to corral some of the publicity.So Zamora's fate will be decided by seven men and five women -- all of whom said they had heard, seen or read of the case.

He told me, 'You haven't been the only girl in my life.' He said, 'I have had sex with someone else before.' I kept ramming my head against the walls. I just didn't want to live with what he had said to me. I felt like I had lost everything. My family wasn't in the best financial shape, and now he was telling me the one thing I prized more than anything else was taken away. I screamed at him, 'Kill her, kill her.' -- Diane Zamora, Sept. 6, 1996FORT WORTH, Texas -- The journey to the Tarrant County Courthouse for her murder trial tomorrow began 16 blocks away at Harris Methodist Hospital, where 7-pound Diane Zamora emerged as the first child of Carlos and Gloria Zamora.

Last Sunday, when the jury of the quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition announced the winners, the news was met by the usual chorus of critical dismay: The Cliburn rewarded pianists who bored and ignored those who didn't.I was among those unhappy with the decision. I had just made my first visit to Fort Worth, Texas, for the finals of the competition, in which six pianists perform 12 concertos over three evenings. The three pianists I thought most interesting were not those deemed worthy of medals by the Cliburn jurors.

FORT DAVIS, Texas -- The seven-day standoff between Texas authorities and an armed separatist group ended yesterday afternoon when the group's leader, who had vowed to wage an Alamo-style fight to the death, walked out of his trailer with three other members and surrendered in the high desert of West Texas.The leader, Richard McLaren, gave himself up after a "military-style ceremony," at which he and his followers laid down their arms, said Mike Cox, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety.

MANSFIELD, Texas -- It was a love that some say was strong, others obsessive. And it appears that somehow that bond became twisted, leading David Graham and Diane Zamora down the forlorn, Seton Road toward murder on Dec. 4.The two 18-year-old honor students who within six months would be at prestigious military schools -- Graham at the Air Force Academy and Zamora at the Naval Academy -- are today in jail, charged with the murder of Adrianne Jones, a...

HEREFORD, TEXAS -- Willa Cather's books are on display, as are the platinum records of Patsy Cline. There is a display on Wilma Mankiller, the former head of the Cherokee Nation, and a bronze statuette of Sacajawea, the Shoshone interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition.And 125 other honorees have their due: There are the pink and turquoise cowgirl hats of Gertrude Maxwell, an Idaho rancher and historian, and a photo exhibit on Mamie (Mae) Francis Hafley, the daredevil rider, and her Arabian mount, Babe, who performed their act 628 times from 1908 to 1914.

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Fresh off their best year in nearly a decade, most of the nation's airlines have quietly added $5 to their one-way fares and $10 to their basic round-trip leisure fares.The fare increases apparently were initiated by Delta Air Lines this week. Most other major carriers, including Fort Worth-based American Airlines, quickly matched them.For example, the coach fare for a flight between Dallas/Fort Worth Airport and Indianapolis rose from $413 one way to $418. The price of a Dallas/Fort Worth-Boston coach ticket rose from $626 to $631.

The stars of ABC's "Texas Justice" are not really Peter Strauss and Heather Locklear, as the credits say. The stars are Locklear, and the costume and hair people who got her ready for the camera.This is a mini-series that's mostly about style. And Locklear, as Priscilla Davis, winningly redefines bad taste in this four-hour walk on the outer fringes of Texas tackiness, which starts at 9 tomorrow night on WMAR (Channel 2)."Texas Justice" is supposed to be a docudrama about T. Cullen Davis, a Fort Worth multimillionaire who was tried three times for murder in the 1970s.