Tasia Fortune's hanging was "staged" after her death, police say
Authorities haven't disclosed the exact cause of Fortune's death, but they did rule it a homicide and have arrested two men.
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Authorities haven't disclosed the exact cause of Fortune's death, but they did rule it a homicide and have arrested two men.
A Texas court rejected a ruling that a woman on death row is innocent in the killing of her 2-year-old daughter in a case that attracted bipartisan calls from lawmakers and celebrities to release her from prison.
Court documents show that Camp Mystic faces a criminal investigation that could include manslaughter or negligent homicide charges in the deaths of 27 girls amid devastating flooding last year.
Both sides have rested in the murder trial of Duane "Keffe D" Davis, who prosecutors allege orchestrated the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur.
Authorities are investigating the killings of five people Friday in rural Northern Michigan, officials said. The suspect in the case was also found dead.
Florida on Tuesday became the first state in nearly a decade to carry out two executions in a single day, putting to death an 80-year-old man who was the second-oldest inmate known to receive a lethal injection in modern U.S. history.
A man who was shot died at the scene, according to officers.
Police say Dillon Hill, 34, punched another man, causing the victim to fall and hit his head.
Three men who witnessed a fatal shooting involving federal immigration officers in Houston say no officer was threatened, a lawyer who has spoken with them said.
The city of Austin will pay $35 million to three men and the family of a fourth who were wrongly accused of the rape and murder of four teenage girls at a yogurt shop in 1991, a case that initially sent one of the men to death row and another to life in prison, under a tentative settlement reached Tuesday.
Frisco Police said at about 7:45 a.m. Friday, officers with the assistance of the Waxahachie Police Department, arrested 57-year-old Keith Hart for murder in the 2002 death of Frank Weiss.
Police say a disturbance inside a business spilled into the parking lot, where a driver hit four people, killing one.
Prosecutors have charged a man allegedly connected to two deaths tied to the "Texas Killing Fields," a site where dozens of bodies have been found since the 1970s.
Cook, along with 23-year-old Alexander James Nicholas, who was arrested in late December, is facing murder charges, authorities said.
A North Texas man was executed for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son nearly 13 years ago.
Prosecutors say the 37‑year‑old was automatically sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.
Ivan Miller, 22, has been arrested and is in custody after authorities in Utah found three women's bodies in two locations.
A North Texas man has been charged in the murder of his mother and the kidnapping of a 4-year-old after an Amber Alert in another state led to his arrest.
A Brazilian au pair got the maximum 10-year sentence after confessing to scheming with her lover to kill his wife and another man.
The two suspects were tracked to an apartment complex near Dallas and arrested without incident.
The Dallas Police chief says crime data from 2025 shows that his policies are working.
An arrest has been made nearly seven years after an East Texas father and his teenage daughter were killed.
Michael McKee is the ex-husband of Monique Tepe, according to court records obtained by CBS News. Tepe and her husband, Spencer, were shot and killed in Columbus on Dec. 30.
Officers in Columbus, Ohio, were dispatched to the couple's home on the morning Dec. 30 for a welfare check and found them dead at the scene.
A Utah judge has ordered the release of a transcript from a closed-door hearing in October over whether the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk must be shackled during court proceedings.
