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Reports on the request for a change of trial venue made by the defense lawyers of former Enron Corp. executives, claiming that the executives will not get a fair trial in Houston, Texas, where the company was headquartered for years. Reasons why the lawyers believe that jury members from the city will be biased against Enron executives; Reaction of the city's population to the accounting scandal involving Enron.

Focuses on Con-Tex Silver Imports, a successful wholesale jewelry business in Texas run by brothers David and Greg Gordon. Background on the company; How the venture imploded and tore the family apart; Issues of mismanagement and potential criminality; Question of how a small company could be wrecked so quickly; Suggestion that this type of thing happens frequently; Existence of such companies outside the radar of public scrutiny; Perception of Con-Tex as an example of the abuses that are possible in the sale of unregistered securities under Rule 504 of federal securities laws; Overview of the Con-Tex story.

Focuses on the financial dealings which contributed to the collapse of Enron Corp. in Houston, Texas. Information on complex deals between the company and private investors; Questions regarding the movement of Enron's assets into partnerships; Role of the accountants in the partnership scheme.

Reports on the start of the first criminal trial involving a financial transaction at Enron in a federal court in Houston, Texas. Role of the Nigerian barge deal in 1999 in the scandal involving the company; Arguments of John Hemann, an assistant U.S. attorney, at the trial; Comments of the lawyers for the defense.

Reports on the withdrawal of the guilty plea on criminal tax charges Lea Fastow, the wife of Enron's former financial chief financial officer in Houston, Texas. Terms of Fastow's agreement with the government; Presentation of the oral argument; Settlement of the negotiation.

Reports that Enron Corp., the Houston, Texas-based energy company had been trying to determine which assets to sell to raise money to bring its bankruptcy case to an end.

Focuses on former Enron finance executive Michael J. Kopper's agreement to plead guilty and cooperate with the U.S. governmental investigation of Enron. Perception of Kopper as a crucial potential witness; Plans to enter plea in Federal District Court in Houston, Texas; Terms of the agreement; Background on the Enron transactions in which Kopper participated; Pressure on other possible witnesses to cooperate.

Reports on an accident involving a chartered bus heading for a church camp in Garland, Texas on June 24, 2002.

Focuses on the deadlocked jury in the Arthur Andersen criminal trial in Houston, Texas, which sent out a question of law that could ultimately decide the verdict against the firm. Response of lawyers on both sides of the case; How the jury received instructions to continue efforts to reach a verdict; The charge of obstruction of justice against Andersen over destruction of Enron-related records; What the jurors must find in order to convict Andersen; Arguments of both sides; Speculation on a verdict.

Reports that jurors in the Arthur Andersen criminal trial said they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict, but the judge ordered them to continue efforts to reach a decision. How the jurors have spent seven days deliberating; Why this development is perceived by experts as a blow to federal prosecutors; Implications of the deadlock; Background on the charge against Andersen of obstruction of justice; Role of Judge Melinda Harmon of Federal District Court, Houston, Texas, who is hearing the case.

Reports on closing arguments by the U.S. government and the defense in the Arthur Andersen criminal trial in Houston, Texas. Background on Andersen's charge of obstructing a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation by destroying records related to its audit of Enron; Arguments of assistant U.S. attorney Samuel W. Buell and of Rusty Hardin, Andersen's chief defense lawyer.

Reports on the ruling of a federal judge in Houston, Texas in the obstruction of justice trial of Arthur Andersen.

Presents information on a search carried out at Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation in El Paso, Texas, by Federal law-enforcement officials on February 17, 1998. Identification of the first time the offices were search by law-enforcement officials; What was recovered in the search; Comments from Darly Fields, a spokesman of the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas.

Reports that United States federal investigators have widened their search of medical offices around El Paso, Texas, on March 20, 1997. The investigators seizing documents from doctors affiliated with the local hospitals operated by the Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation; Federal agencies involved in the investigation; Nature of the investigation as undisclosed; Speculation as to the nature; Reaction of Columbia.