Federal Inmates Guilty Of Escape From Beaumont Prison, Caught With Cell Phones And Whisky
Julian Villa-Gomez Lemus, 34, a Mexican national, and Robert Lloyd Young, 45, of Bruceville, Texas, each pleaded guilty to escaping from federal custody.
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Julian Villa-Gomez Lemus, 34, a Mexican national, and Robert Lloyd Young, 45, of Bruceville, Texas, each pleaded guilty to escaping from federal custody.
Authorities say they will begin the process to exonerate a Houston man who was convicted in a 2010 fatal stabbing that investigators now believe was committed by someone else.
Prosecutors say a man imprisoned in Texas for terrorism has been convicted of trying to recruit fellow prisoners to join the Islamic State group and plan attacks in the United States.
A San Antonio mother has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for helping her son and two other inmates escape from a county jail last year.
Three transgender women have filed a lawsuit challenging a Texas law that bars federal prison inmates from legally changing their names while in custody and within two years after serving their sentence.
A Texas judge has exonerated a former high school football player who served three years in prison after being accused of sexually assaulting a young boy at a day care when he was 18-years-old.
A new judge has been assigned to death row inmate Rodney Reed's case a week after Texas' highest criminal court canceled his execution scheduled earlier this month.
He was found guilty on four counts of sexual assault of a child. Now a Red Oak man will spend more than half a century behind bars.
Army First Lieutenant Clint Lorance arrived back home in Hunt County this weekend after President Trump pardoned his prison sentence for actions made as a combat leader in 2013.
Former white supremacist gang member Justen Hall has been executed for strangling a West Texas woman over fears she would alert police about his drug operation.
Former Dallas Mayor Pro-Tem Dwaine Caraway has returned to Dallas and is behind bars at the county jail.
Richard Bryan Kussmaul was convicted of capital murder in 1994 for killing 17-year-old Leslie Murphy and 14-year-old Stephen Neighbors in a mobile home near Moody, about 100 miles south of Dallas. His conviction was vacated last year due to DNA evidence that cleared him of the deaths.
The Mesquite Police Department is warning the public of a Wyoming prison escapee potentially being in the area.
Prosecutors say Rodolfo "Rudy" Delgado, while a state district court judge in Hidalgo County, took bribes for several years in return for favorable rulings.
Eleazar Juarez Juarez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to produce, transfer, and forge false identification documents.
Three years after the sexual abuse stopped, the courageous child told her parents about the family friend who first violated her at 5-years-old.
A Mexican man convicted of killing three teens in El Paso has died of apparent cardiac arrest.
The song, "The Race," helped raise Taymor McIntyre's profile in 2017. It could now factor into a decision on how many years the 19-year-old will spend in prison.
The North Texas jury that found teen rapper Taymor "Tay-K" McIntyre guilty of murder Friday morning will soon decide how long he will be in prison.
The Texas state comptroller has denied compensation to a man who served 12 years on death row for a murder prosecutors and a judge have said he didn't commit.
The Houston Chronicle reports that Randy Halprin alleges in his federal appeal that ex-Dallas County Judge Vickers Cunningham referred to him with anti-Semitic language.
A 21-year-old man is behind bars after police said he tried to rob a man at gunpoint, then led police on a short chase in Grand Prairie.
Two doctors and a nurse from Plano were sentenced to federal prison for the illegal distribution of opioids and other pharmaceutical controlled substances.
A North Texas man faces up to 88 years in a U.S. prison he was convicted of sharing online messages promoting terrorism and lying to investigators.
The number of officially logged suicide attempts among Texas prisoners has nearly tripled in the last decade.
