Man gets 60-year prison term in deadly purse theft
Apr 26A North Texas jury has sentenced a man to 60 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to murder in a deadly drive-by purse snatching in a Dallas store parking lot. »
A North Texas jury has sentenced a man to 60 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to murder in a deadly drive-by purse snatching in a Dallas store parking lot. »
A Texas inmate looked to the U.S. Supreme Court to spare him a trip to the death chamber for an East Texas man's slaying 10 years ago during a convenience store robbery. »
An unwelcome visitor in a Central Texas city has been put in its place. »
An East Texas man was killed when the horse he was riding bucked him into the path of an oncoming car. »
The Texas attorney general's office is appealing a reprieve given to a 29-year-old convict set to die Thursday for a fatal shooting during a robbery and abductions at an East Texas convenience store. »
Police say a Central Texas man has been accused of using a guitar to beat his neighbor to death at the victim's apartment. »
A 29-year-old convict set to die this week for a fatal shooting during the robbery and abductions at an East Texas convenience store has won a reprieve from a federal judge. »
A Central Texas school district near Fort Hood is reviewing security policies at secondary schools after two students were found to have weapons at middle schools the same day. »
The parents of an 18-month-old North Texas toddler mauled by dogs in the back yard of the child's grandparents have gotten four-month jail terms. »
A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal from a condemned inmate convicted of fatally beating an East Texas woman with a tire iron during a break-in at her home nearly a decade ago. »
Investigators say at convicted high-risk sex offender who fled from a Central Texas halfway house has been caught at a bus stop. »
A state ombudsman tells lawmakers that students at a youth lockup in Central Texas are coercing and extorting each other for cigarettes, drugs and money. »
Two former East Texas dental workers have been accused of selling stolen gold including a piece attached to a bloody tooth. »
Gov. Rick Perry will address a suburban Dallas business group as he promotes his "Texas Budget Compact" proposal. »
The federal government is offering low-interest disaster loans to residents and business owners in 13 North Texas counties damaged by April 3 tornadoes and other storms. »