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Tag Archives: Texas

  • News arkansas oil spill

    Oil spilled from pipeline between Illinois and Texas

    Heavy crude oil flowing like a river through a central Arkansas neighborhood could keep residents away for several more days as crews work to clean it up.

  • News shooting at houston college

    Shooter among those wounded in college campus shooting

    Three people, at least two of them students, were wounded in crossfire as two people shot at each other at a Texas community college Tuesday.

  • News hundred dollar bill

    Policeman wraps $100 bill in traffic ticket

    A traffic stop ended much happier than it began for a man pulled over by police.

  • News from abcnews.go.com

    Judge in video beating is back at work

    A Texas judge whose caseload includes family and juvenile cases, is back at work after being suspended when video of him beating his daughter went viral.

  • Crime / News Elizabeth Escalona

    Texas mom gets 99 years for gluing toddler to wall, beating her

    A Texas mother who super-glued her 2-year-old daughter’s hands to a wall and beat her over potty training problems was sentenced Friday morning to 99 years in prison.

  • News Elizabeth Escalona

    Texas mother awaits sentence for gluing toddler daughter to wall

    A Texas mother of five is expected to be sentenced Tuesday after admitting to gluing her 2-year-old daughter to a wall and beating her over potty training.

  • News Patrick Myers (photo from Killeen Police Department)

    Soldier charged with manslaughter after trying to cure private of hiccups

    One soldier used a gun to try to scare another out of the hiccups and instead fatally shot the hiccuping man.

  • News from texastribune.org

    Texas highway gets 85 mph speed limit

    The Texas Transportation Commission approved an 85 miles-per-hour speed limit for a toll road between Austin and San Antonio.

  • News / Weather Wind and rain bands are starting to come ashore in Key West on Sunday August 26, 2012.  Photo from CNN

    As Isaac moves into warm water, threat shifts to northern Gulf

    Heavy rain and strong wind pounded parts of Florida on Sunday but Isaac is expected to move west of its originally predicted path.

  • News

    Moline boy competes in national cup-stacking events

    A Moline, Illinois boy is headed to the Junior Olympics for competition that takes some serious hand-eye coordination. Matt Davis,…

  • News police lights generic

    Sheriff: Father kills man sexually abusing his daughter

    A Texas father caught a man sexually assaulting his 4-year-old daughter and punched him in the head repeatedly, killing him, authorities said.

  • News

    Naked unicycle rider arrested

    A man, busted for being naked as he rode a unicycle across a bridge, told police he did it just…