AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who killed his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison system when he used a cellphone smuggled onto death row to threaten a lawmaker, was executed Thursday night.
Richard Lee Tabler, 46, was given a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He is the second person executed in Texas in a little over a week, with two more scheduled by the end of April. The time of death was 6:38 p.m. CST.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Two smugglers charged after 53 immigrants died in the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer with no air conditioning were found guilty
Garland police say a 40-year-old man, who has been a wanted murder suspect in the city since 2009, was taken into custody Friday in Mexico.
Dallas police on Sunday were investigating a weekend shooting in Far East Dallas that resulted in the death of a 21-year-old, according to officials. At
Dallas police said one person was shot and killed in east Oak Cliff on Saturday morning. Officers were called about 7:50 a.m. to the 1500
Fort Worth police said they arrested an individual in connection to a Thursday road rage fatal shooting. Police said officers were dispatched to a shooting
