Federal Judge In Texas Reprimanded For Misconduct Retires
A longtime federal judge in Texas who was reprimanded for making unwanted sexual advances has retired from the bench.
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A longtime federal judge in Texas who was reprimanded for making unwanted sexual advances has retired from the bench.
A Mesquite man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for five counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child.
A Romanian hacker who targeted the Bush family, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and others is expected to get a prison sentence of at least two years.
Former NFL star Darren Sharper has a sentencing hearing in federal court Thursday following an earlier multi-jurisdiction plea deal related to allegations he drugged and raped as many as 16 women in four states.
A Texas businessman has pleaded guilty to bilking a western New York lender out of more than $800,000 in a highway construction scam.
A woman who was recently released from prison in Oregon robbed a bank in Wyoming only to throw the cash up in the air outside the building and sit down to wait for police, authorities said Friday.
The Texas state parole board on Tuesday defended its early release of a convicted child killer who was arrested last weekend on a sexual assault charge.
Patrol car video publicly released Thursday shows a white Austin, Texas, police officer violently throwing a black woman to the ground during a traffic stop.
A McKinney man will spend more than two decades in prison after being found guilty of molesting a little boy.
Police arrested Romeal Dorasay Johnson, 30, for allegedly sexually assaulting a 15-year-old female.
The FBI, U.S. Marshals and the Secret Service were brought in to help solve the murder of a freelance journalist in Garland.
A group of prisoners alleging they have to drink arsenic-laden water to stay cool inside their hot Texas lockup won a legal victory Tuesday in an ongoing lawsuit after a federal judge ordered the Texas prison system to provide safe drinking water that doesn't violate "contemporary standards of decency."
A West Texas man must serve 55 years in prison for the 2014 fatal shooting of his girlfriend and the wounding of their newborn son in her arms.
About 2,400 inmates evacuated last month from Texas prisons near the rain-swollen Brazos River are being returned to their previous lockups.
Authorities say a Houston man facing charges in seven sexual assault cases is also the prime suspect in eight other cases dating back to 2012.
President Barack Obama has shortened the sentences of 42 people serving time for drug-related offenses, continuing a push for clemency that has ramped up in the final year of his administration.
Nearly 200 children from a polygamous sect whose leader, Warren Jeffs is serving a life sentence in Texas, had to work long hours in the cold.
A 27-year-old Texas man faces nearly 15 years in prison for bringing a 14-year-old Dallas girl to northwest Louisiana for prostitution, federal prosecutors say.
Prosecutors have presented evidence to send a Texas man charged with multiple counts of first-degree manslaughter to trial in the September 2014 deaths of four college softball players.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch is urging governors to make it easier for prisoners to obtain state-issued identification upon their release.
Texas prison officials are reviewing what they call the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's tentative decision to block it from importing a drug that could be used in executions.
Jennifer Lynn Dougherty was sentenced by a federal judge in Dallas on Wednesday.
An east Waco man found guilty of harboring a 15-year-old runaway and charging men to have sex with her has been sentenced to 12 consecutive terms of life in prison.
Two grandparents are grieving after their 4-year-old granddaughter was murdered in Grand Prairie.
Earlier this year, a wife of former polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs tried to visit him at a Texas state prison with a tiny microphone implanted in her hollowed-out watch.
