NATION IN BRIEF : TEXAS : Lawmen Start Trial in Kidnap Plot Case

About 20 people wearing blue ribbons stood outside federal court in Sherman, Tex., in support of two Oklahoma lawmen who went on trial on charges of plotting to kidnap a suspected drug dealer and torture him with a hot curling iron. Sheriff Wesley Liddell Jr., of Love County, and his son-in-law, Marietta Police Officer Roger Ray Hilton, are accused of conspiracy and interstate travel to commit violence. FBI agents arrested them in May, charging that they plotted to abduct the suspect from Texas to get information about drug lab locations in Oklahoma.