November 06, 2009
Fort Hood: Another victim of shooting rampage dies
A military official says one more person has died after being injured during a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas. The toll now stands at 13 dead and 30 wounded.
October 26, 2009
Texas skyscraper bomb plot suspect due in court
A Jordanian man accused of trying to blow up a Dallas skyscraper with what he thought was a car bomb is expected in court.
October 14, 2009
19 years later, child left for dead sees an arrest for the man who allegedly attacked her
Jennifer Schuett’s search for the man who snatched her from her bed when she was 8, sexually assaulted her and left her for dead on top of an ant hill ended Tuesday with the arrest of a suspect. Now begins another chapter in Schuett’s 19-year quest for justice. “This is a huge day for me,“ she later told CNN over the phone. “And I want to see this through the end. The rest will come out during the trial.“
October 13, 2009
Texas man found asleep with corpse inside closet
A Houston man found asleep with a corpse inside a closet of a vacant home has been charged with misdemeanor drug offenses, authorities said Monday.
October 09, 2009
Texas Kindergartner crushed to death in front of classmates
A 5-year-old Texas Kindergartner was crushed to death in front of her classmates when a portable closet fell on top of her during gym class Wednesday.
October 06, 2009
FBI: Terror suspect made video for bin Laden
Texas terrorism suspect Hosam Smadi recorded a seven-minute video message for al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden before his arrest on charges of plotting to blow up a Dallas building, an FBI agent testified Monday.
October 01, 2009
Texas governor shakes up panel probing 2004 execution
Texas Gov. Rick Perry shook up the ranks of a state commission that is probing whether a man executed in 2004 belonged on death row. The move came two days before the scheduled testimony of an arson expert critical of evidence prosecutors used to convict Cameron Todd Willingham of murder in 1992.
September 23, 2009
Police: Escaped Texas inmate rappelled down building using bedsheets
Texas authorities on Sunday were searching for a convicted burglar who escaped from a medical facility by rappelling off the building using a string of bedsheets, officials said.
August 25, 2009
Infants’ remains found under Texas mobile home
The skeletal remains of two infants were found underneath a rural Texas trailer, police said Monday, in the same area where another set of infant remains was found last year.
Four suspects sought in the slaying of Texas doctor, Dr. Jorge Mario Gonzales
Four suspects are sought in connection with the shooting death over the weekend of a Houston, Texas, doctor. Dr. Jorge Mario Gonzalez, 56, was chief of the critical care section at Houston’s Methodist Hospital and “a pulmonary medicine leader,“ according to the hospital system’s Web site.
August 18, 2009
Texas judge, Sharon Keller, on trial after refusing to accept death row appeal
The presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals went on trial Monday, facing misconduct allegations over her refusal to accept a last-minute filing to delay an execution.
August 14, 2009
Texas is home to high-tech hospital prototype
The company Nortel has developed a high-tech system that hospitals can use to easily track doctors, nurses, and medical equipment.
July 30, 2009
911 call of mother accused of decapitating and eating her baby
San Antonio police have released the 911 call in the case of a mother charged with decapitating her baby and eating parts of him.
July 27, 2009
Texas mom charged with decapitating 3-week-old son
Texas police say the woman used a steak knife to decapitate her three-and-a-half week-old son, then partially cannibalized it.
July 15, 2009
100 explosives found in Texas home where deputy was shot
A bomb squad found homemade pipe bombs, gas grenades and altered tear gas devices with booby traps in the Texas mobile home where a deputy was shot and killed.


