SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A South Texas soldier who pleaded guilty in a recruiting scam to get referral bonuses must serve 1Ω years in prison and repay about $13,000. A federal judge in San Antonio on Friday sentenced 29-year-old Army Spec. Richard Garcia Jr. of Kirby. Garcia in July pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy [...]
DALLAS (AP) — Dallas police say four people have died in gunfire at two motels in attacks that do not appear to be related. Police have not announced any arrests in the killings at motels located about a mile apart. A domestic dispute Sunday afternoon led to the fatal shooting of 35-year-old Jeronimo Daza as [...]
AUSTIN (AP) — A Texas A&M-Galveston class ring lost at a snowy park in Wyoming has been returned to the 2012 graduate. Toni Chandler of Austin was devastated last December when the ring slipped off at Grand Teton National Park. The marine biology graduate says she made a snow angel, got up, removed her gloves [...]
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry officially notified the federal government on Thursday that the state will not set up an exchange to help people buy health insurance.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Don’t tell voters in San Antonio that it’s hard finding a competitive Election Day race in Texas. At least $4.2 million in television ads are bombarding viewers in the nation’s seventh-largest city about whether they should keep freshman Republican U.S. Rep. Francisco Canseco, or oust him in favor of Democratic challenger [...]
FORT WORTH (AP) — A convicted felon was sentenced to death Tuesday for killing a pastor and severely beating the pastor’s secretary during a robbery in their North Texas church. A jury in Fort Worth deliberated for a little more than an hour before deciding the sentence for Steven Lawayne Nelson, 25. He was convicted [...]
GARWOOD (AP) — A pair of old gravel pits on the fringes of this South Texas town may spell the future of water supplies in the Colorado River basin. Here, in the midst of rice country, the Lower Colorado River Authority is six months into a project to figure out whether it can call on [...]
HOUSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has refused to stop next week’s scheduled execution of a former Army recruiter convicted in the rape-slaying of a woman in Fort Worth more than 10 years ago. Cleve Foster is set to die Tuesday in Huntsville for the death of a 30-year-old Sudanese woman known as Mary [...]
AUSTIN (AP) — Investigators in Texas have opened a criminal probe into how State Farm handled perhaps thousands of insurance claims from homeowners involving hurricane damage. Gregg Cox is head of the public integrity unit of the Travis County District Attorney’s office in Austin. He said Friday that his team first began its investigation months [...]
RICHMOND (AP) — A Texas judge has set bond at $500,000 for an Illinois man who drove to the Houston area allegedly to abduct a girl he met online. The Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office says James Wean Jr. was being held Thursday on a charge of attempted aggravated kidnapping. The 49-year-old from Pearl City, [...]
CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — Police say a 15-month-old South Texas boy has died after being left in a hot SUV. Corpus Christi police arrested the boy’s mother on a charge of injury to a child after the death Wednesday. Nueces County Jail records Thursday indicated 26-year-old Concepcion Rodriguez was free on $25,000 bond. Jail officials [...]
ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. health officials reported Wednesday three times the usual number of West Nile cases for this time of year and one expert called it “one of the largest” outbreaks since the virus appeared in this country in 1999. So far, 1,118 illnesses have been reported, about half of them in Texas, according [...]
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — A former mechanic scheduled to die in Texas Wednesday evening for murdering his ex-girlfriend’s brother and two other sleeping teenagers in 1999 was hoping the courts would intervene and delay his execution for a third time. John Balentine, 43, had an appeal pending before the U.S. Supreme Court seeking a stay of [...]
COLLEGE STATION (AP) — Compassionate. Humble. A good friend. A dedicated public servant. Those were some of the words that family and friends used during a funeral service Saturday to fondly remember a law enforcement officer who was among three people killed in a shootout near Texas A&M University. More than 3,000 people attended the [...]
DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings on Wednesday declared the city’s recent West Nile virus outbreak to be a state of emergency and authorized the first aerial spraying of insecticide in the city in more than 45 years. Dallas and other North Texas cities have agreed to the rare use of aerial spraying from [...]
FORT HOOD (AP) — The trial for an Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting was put on hold Wednesday by an appeals court considering his objections to being forcibly shaved. Maj. Nidal Hasan had been scheduled to enter a plea Wednesday to charges in the attack at the Texas Army post, [...]
WACO (AP) — An AWOL soldier remained defiant Friday as a judge sentenced him to life in federal prison for collecting bomb-making materials to carry out what he told authorities would be a massive attack on a Texas restaurant full of Fort Hood troops. Army Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo, a Muslim, was planning a religious [...]
RIPLEY, Tenn. (AP) — The U.S. Marshals Service says a man suspected of killing a Texas couple has been captured in West Tennessee. U.S. Marshals spokesman Seth Bruce said Donny Lee Greenhow was caught Friday morning. Details on the capture were not immediately released. Authorities had been searching for Greenhow in a heavily wooded area [...]
HOUSTON (AP) — Halliburton Co. said Thursday that it has acquired a company that will allow it to provide more technical data about wells and reservoirs to its customers in the energy industry. Halliburton’s unit, Landmark Software and Services, purchased Petris Technology. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Halliburton, which helps companies analyze oil [...]
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A military jury has begun deliberations in the court-martial of a Texas Air Force basic training instructor charged in a sex scandal surrounding instructors at the base. KSAT-TV of San Antonio reports the case against Tech Sgt. Christopher Smith was turned over to jurors after a day of testimony at Lackland Air [...]
