Arrest made in cold case slaying involving hot grease
A 76-year-old former Texas woman has been arrested in Georgia, accusing of killing her husband by pouring hot grease pm jo,. The slaying was in 1970, and the woman had been arrested shortly afterward...
View ArticleGrave robbers takes corpse from Texas cemetery
A San Antonio TV station reports that two people robbed a grave at a cemetery north of Bergheim and took parts of a corpse. The grave was that of an elderly homeless man who died in 1961, according to...
View Article73-year-old Dallas man convicted in $60 million international fraud
Two British telecommunications companies were defrauded of more than $60 million in an elaborate scheme extending to the U.S., Poland, Spain, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates and France, and on Friday,...
View ArticleArlington police honor veteran K9 officer Vic
Arlington police said farewell last week to Vic, an active-duty K9 officer who served for six years before cancer overtook him. On Thursday, K9 Unit Officer Wade Hardin spoke to the media about Vic as...
View ArticleArmed, dangerous...and smells like dirty socks
Police have been searching for more than a week for a murder suspect they said was armed and dangerous. Hondo police and the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force found the suspect at a San Antonio home -...
View ArticleCondemned killer Hank Skinner makes third try for DNA testing
A federal judge in Amarillo on Monday heard arguments about whether death row inmate Hank Skinner, who was sentenced to death after a trial in Fort Worth, is entitled to DNA testing that he says will...
View ArticleFlower Mound residents accused of multi-million-dollar fraud
Investors' money was used by Flower Mound residents for a leased BMW and $350,000 in rent, and trading losses gobbled up more of the funds, a federal agency says in a complaint filed in U.S. District...
View ArticleWoman describes house of horrors in Killeen, with captives held in attic
More details are coming out about the disabled people found behind a chained basement door in Philadelphia. A woman has come forward to say she was locked in a closet in Killeen, Texas by the suspect,...
View ArticleCollege students say they were scammed into posing nude
A Lubbock County grand jury has indicted a former Texas Tech student on accusations that he scammed male students into posing nude, with promises that they would get thousands of dollars to do so,...
View ArticleAnother guilty plea in Fast and Furious gun trafficking case
A Metroplex man has pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to buy a gun used in the slaying of an ICE agent in Mexico. Otilio Osorio was one of three straw purchasers of guns being trafficked to...
View Article108 seized dogs, cats turned over to SPCA
Cats and dogs living in filthy conditions in a Duncanville house, and other dogs in rusted wire cages in two other nearby houses have been turned over to the SPCA, the agency has announced. Duncanville...
View ArticleNational Guard recruiter from Lubbock arrested in sex sting
A National Guard recruiter from Lubbock sent nude pictures of himself to what he thought was a 15-year-old girl, then arrived at a New Mexico house with a box of condoms expecting a rendezvous with...
View ArticleHave you seen this robbery suspect?
Grand Prairie police are asking the public's help in finding a woman who they believe is responsible for two robbery attempts. In the latest, at 5:40 p.m. Thursday, a woman was walking to her apartment...
View ArticleArea 5-year-old trick-or-treater hit by vehicle
FORT WORTH — MedStar received two reports of children being injured in unrelated traffic accidents on Halloween, officials said Monday. A 5-year-old was taken by ambulance to Cook Children’s Medical...
View ArticleOne dead in Halloween night shooting
A 28-year-old man was found dead in a Farmers Branch home after responding to a report of shots fired. Investigators are working leads to try to identify a suspect or suspects, according to information...
View ArticleMissing Plano woman found dead in parking garage
A Plano woman reported missing after going to the Deep Ellum area of Dallas has been found dead in her car in a parking garage at a Plano business, police report. Police began searching for Jaclyn...
View ArticlePolice arrest man accused of having sex with teen at Occupy Dallas encampment
DALLAS -- Police arrested a 23-year-old suspect they believe had sex with a 14-year-old girl while she was at the Occupy Dallas encampment. Dallas Police received information about a teenage girl at...
View ArticleGlenn Beck-backed gold dealer charged with fraud
A California company that sponsored conservative talk show host Glenn Beck's radio program has been charged with fraud in a 19-count criminal complaint in Santa Monica. The company, Goldline, is...
View ArticleThis out-of-town car thief should have gotten directions first
A Jefferson man in a stolen car led Hurst police on a brief chase Tuesday afternoon before he and a passenger took a wrong turn and abandoned the car in the wrong place: the Hurst Police Department...
View ArticleFugitive fraudster found in Florida
After Michael R. Rouse was found guilty of 9 various fraud offenses involving Golden Gate Real Estate Trust, a judge ordered him to stay in the Metroplex area until sentencing. So, in what must have...
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