Mexican Judge Cuts Ammo Charge Against North Texas Trucker
A Mexican appeals judge on Thursday significantly lessened the charge against a Dallas truck driver who says he made a wrong turn into Mexico with a trailer full of ammunition.
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A Mexican appeals judge on Thursday significantly lessened the charge against a Dallas truck driver who says he made a wrong turn into Mexico with a trailer full of ammunition.
A judge ruled a man convicted of killing two people in a hit and run incident in 2003 will avoid jail time.
A 22-year-old North Texas man who was accused of killing two people outside of a bar was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for an unrelated earlier armed robbery.
Proposed cuts to the health care provided to Texas prisoners could make the system unconstitutionally inadequate, experts warned lawmakers Monday.
A former prison guard who had sex with an inmate faces up to 15 years in jail. The encounter happened in May 2011 in a basement at the Fort Worth Federal Correctional Institution.
A North Texas family has filed a federal lawsuit against the state, after a man died in a prison that didn't have air conditioning. Larry Gene McCollum suffered heat stroke last summer, while serving time at the Hutchins State Jail in Dallas.
A Fort Worth man has been sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting his neighbor after a gun battle outside their homes.
Roger Clemens rejected a plea deal that would have spared him prison time. Instead, he risked his freedom by going to trial.
Ashleigh Shae Parks, 30, died just six weeks before she was scheduled to be released from Dawson State Jail in downtown Dallas, a low security facility for people convicted of non-violent crimes.
A Dallas County Grand Jury has indicted three more men on animal cruelty charges in connection with setting Justice the dog on fire.
Had they not been certified as adults by Texas courts, the 63 youths in a little-known program at the Clemens Unit would have landed in one of the state's six state-run lockups for juveniles.
A 59-year-old North Texas man faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine following his conviction on charges he possessed an illegal machine gun.
The Texas attorney general's office says state prison officials must disclose information about who supplies lethal drugs for executions and how much of the drugs the Department of Criminal Justice has on hand.
A Collin County man learns his punishment after pleading guilty to three counts of sexual assault of a child and two counts of indecency with a child.
Former Cowboys quarterback Ryan Leaf is scheduled to be arraigned May 3 in Great Falls, Mont., on burglary and drug possession charges.
The Texas prosecutor who brokered a plea deal with former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf has filed a motion to revoke his probation and will press for prison time.
A former Texas FBI agent who was convicted of making false statements about a confidential source after having an intimate relationship with her has been sentenced in New York to a year and a day in prison.
The Texas prison board is meeting in Austin on Friday, and the sticky topic of inmate health care coverage likely up for discussion.
An attorney with a drug problem has pleaded guilty to killing his former law partner's ex-wife.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark says officials are trying to determine if Jeffs preached a sermon to his congregation over a speaker phone.
A guard at a federal medical prison in North Texas has been accused of sexual abuse of an inmate.
When Harvey Stewart first went to prison 60 years ago, gasoline was 20 cents a gallon, a postage stamp cost three pennies and Harry Truman was president.
A jury in Waco on Friday convicted 66-year-old Joyce Sturdivant of Robinson of murder and of attempted capital murder. The case involves the 2008 death of 68-year-old Joe Sturdivant Jr.
Utah prosecutors are dropping charges against a polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, who is serving a life sentence in Texas in a separate case.
More than 200 federal prison inmates in North Texas may soon be released. The move comes because of a new law that erases the sentencing disparity between those convicted of offenses involving crack versus powdered cocaine.
