Ex-Con Charged With Capital Murder After Break-In
James Floyd Jr., 50, was arrested when police say he broke into the elderly couple's home last month, took their credit cards, beat and then shot them, and finally stole their car.
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James Floyd Jr., 50, was arrested when police say he broke into the elderly couple's home last month, took their credit cards, beat and then shot them, and finally stole their car.
Federal prosecutors say 10 people affiliated with a Texas-based Latino prison gang have been arrested in a coordinated series of roundups in the Corpus Christi, Houston and San Antonio areas.
The number of people exonerated in the U.S. rose again in 2016, with more than half of them involved in cases in which it was later determined no crime occurred, according to a report released Tuesday.
A hitman hired to kill a woman in an insurance scam, is scheduled for lethal injection tomorrow.
A post prison job placement firm called Cornbread Hustle teaches parolees how to become entrepreneurs.
Court records show a man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to kill a housekeeper who was found fatally stabbed inside a Colleyville home where she worked.
Bryan Wayne Stewart, 36, of Red Oak, was sentenced to 30 years in prison without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to continuous sexual abuse of a child.
Danny Ray Caudill, 55, of Lubbock was sentenced Monday to ten years in federal prison, following his guilty plea in September 2016 to one count of attempted enticement of a minor.
A Texas district court of appeals panel says an inmate imprisoned for more than 35 years after his murder conviction was overturned should go free.
Joey Salas is popular around Oak Cliff, not only as an advocate for the disabled but also for his involvement with the Tejano music scene.
Investigators say 45-year-old Broderick Arpon sexually assaulted children he taught in his home.
Irving police have arrested a man after a 1-year-old in his care, died under suspicious circumstances.
Homicide detectives have identified Rodney Collins Smith, 39, as the suspect in the death of Linda Lee Harris, 44.
An updated federal indictment accuses the man accused of hatching a plot to assassinate a Texas judge with trying to silence witnesses from his jail cell.
Only five states conducted executions this year, the fewest number of states to do so since 1983. Georgia led the way with nine, followed by Texas with seven.
The White House says President Barack Obama has pardoned 78 people and shortened the sentence of 153 others convicted of federal crimes.
A 23-year-old Central Texas man was sentenced to life in prison without parole in the shooting deaths of two friends at his home while he was on a hallucinogenic drug.
Fred Couch, the father of so-called 'affluenza' teen, Ethan Couch has a jury of his own to face this week.
Investigators say a South Texas man sought in the fatal shooting of his estranged wife was captured while trying to enter Mexico.
Dallas-born investigative journalist Barrett Brown was released from federal prison, earlier than initially scheduled.
A man who kidnapped, beat and raped a woman at gunpoint repeatedly is now behind bars.
A jury in Fort Worth convicted a 24-year-old man who along with three co-conspirators defrauded a software company of more than $16 million.
McArthur Baker, 69, and Tonya Evans, 52, were each convicted on one count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. with respect to claims and one count of false statements or fraud to obtain federal employees' compensation.
Son T. Nguyen, 71, of Richardson, was sentenced to 29 years in prison without parole by a jury that convicted him of sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl.
A former television reporter in Texas must serve more than three years in federal prison for stalking an ex-boss and the executive's wife.
