Though Texas has been a leader in crashes for years thanks to its expansive rail network, collisions have been trending ...
A Texas stepmother shook and sobbed uncontrollably on the stand Thursday as she desperately insisted to a jury that she wasn’t responsible for torturing and starving her stepson to death.
AUSTIN — A 10-year-old boy has confessed to an unsolved killing in Texas, telling investigators that he shot a man he did not know while the victim slept, authorities said Friday. The boy, who ...
Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile A judge has recommended that the conviction and death sentence of Melissa Lucio, a Texas woman whose execution was delayed ...
EAGLE PASS, Texas — The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck.
A Biden administration rule approved this month will require two-person crews on freight trains. That’s a good start, but ...
A Texas judge last week recommended the conviction and sentence of a mother on death row be overturned, finding prosecutors withheld key evidence that could have prevented her from being found ...
The judge who presided over the trial of Melissa Lucio, a Texas woman being held on death row for the murder of her child, has recommended her conviction and sentence be overturned. The move by Judge ...
THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – Texas’ highest criminal court re-sentenced death row inmate Tomas Gallo to life in prison Wednesday, ruling that he is too intellectually disabled to be executed.
HOUSTON (AP) — A judge has recommended that the conviction and death sentence of Melissa Lucio, a Texas woman whose execution was delayed in 2022 amid growing doubts she fatally beat her 2-year ...