All eyes are on America’s railways following the calamitous derailment of a freight train in East Palestine, Ohio. On Feb. 3, more than 30 cars of a Norfolk Southern train derailed, some ...
Several states – including Arizona, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Nevada and Washington – have all now proposed limiting train lengths. There have been 1,400 cases since 2019 in which emergency ...
A Texas mother-of-five has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for beating her boyfriend's four-year-old daughter to death. Shawna Hooey, 33, of Tomball, Texas, was looking after her own five ...
On patrol in the harsh brush along the border in South Texas, Deputy Don White of the Brooks County Sheriff’s Office paused to study some empty water jugs, torn clothing and several indistinct ...
A North Texas family is mourning a high school student who died when he was hit by a DART train last week, nine days before graduation and his 18th birthday. The family of Francisco Chavez, known ...
The latest death penalty news from The Texas Tribune. by William Melhado Updated: March 28, 2024 Since Randall Mays was sentenced to death in 2008 for the murder of two sheriff’s deputies, his ...
Last week, a Texas criminal appeals court took a 64-year-old man off death row and resentenced him to life in prison without parole, after ruling that he was too intellectually disabled to be ...
A Texas woman was sentenced to 50 years in prison last week for the 2019 killing of her boyfriend's 4-year-old daughter, according to the Harris County District Attorney's Office. Shawna Hooey, 33 ...
HUTCHINSON COUNTY — Eighty-three-year-old Joyce Blankenship died when the Smokehouse Creek fire enveloped her neighborhood in the town of Stinnett, northeast of Amarillo. The Smokehouse Creek ...
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals re-sentenced a 64-year-old man on death row to life in prison without parole on Wednesday after a state expert confirmed in trial court that he is ...
For a decade, a Texas committee has counted and investigated maternal deaths in the state, producing legislative reports that help shape public health policy for new and expectant mothers.