A Texas man who claimed an intellectual disability in a late attempt at a reprieve was executed Wednesday evening for the killing of a woman who was jogging near her Houston home more than 27 years ago. Arthur Lee Burton, 54, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsvill...
flown to Houston and on to Dallas. He didn’t mention seeing Sam Corey until the night of January 17 when he flew to San Antonio. Toward the end of the interview Giesick began acting extremely nervous, insisting that he had to catch a plane to Dallas and didn’t have time to talk an...
TABC arrested a man accused of stealing name-brand liquor that was being shipped in Texas. He was arrested on Jan. 24 by TABC agents in Donna, TX. The missing inventory was recovered in Dallas. TEXAS-A South Texas man has been arrested by agents of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commissio...
Kyle Thomas Rugg: Authorities, family ask for information in Katy man's death Polk County Sheriff Byron Lyons and the family of Kyle Thomas Rugg, who went missing in 2015 at the age of 20, ask for anyone with information in his death to come forward. LIVINGSTON, Texas-The Polk County ...
A Lafayette man is facing an attempted first-degree murder charge in connection with a shooting that happened in Bayou Vista. According to St. Mary Parish sheriff's deputies, Derrick Lee John Williams, Jr., was arrested Thursday morning on a warrant in connection to the November 21 shooting....
by John Lienhard, University of Houston FROM:http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi521.htm The Civil War Ended Slavery only in the South - not the North The enslavement of African Americans in what became the United States formally began during the 1630s and l64Os. At that time colonial courts ...