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10/3/2024
Supreme Court to weigh a Texas death row case after halting execution
Posted 10:47 AM 10/4/2024 by LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of a Texas man on death row who has long argued that DNA testing would help prove he didn't kill an 85-year-old woman during a home robbery decades ago.
The order came down Friday in the case of Ruben Gutierrez, months after (More)
10/1/2024
How a school voucher supporter won in a Texas House district with almost no private schools
Posted 12:26 PM 10/2/2024 by JADEN EDISON | THE TEXAS TRIBUNE
9/30/2024
Officials identify driver who crashed into a Texas pipeline and sparked a 4-day fire
Posted 10:25 AM 10/1/2024 by KEN MILLER Associated Press
The driver of a vehicle that crashed into a pipeline valve and sparked a four-day fire that forced the evacuation of nearby neighborhoods in a Houston suburb was a local 51-year-old man, according to police.
Remains found in the SUV following the fire are those of Jonathan McEvoy of Deer (More)
9/29/2024
Texas lawmakers, farmers and ranchers sound alarm over languishing farm bill
Posted 11:03 AM 9/30/2024 by JAYME LOZANO CARVER | THE TEXAS TRIBUNE
9/28/2024
Kris Kristofferson, singer-songwriter and actor, dies at 88
Posted 3:54 PM 9/29/2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and A-list Hollywood actor, has died.
Kristofferson died at his home on Maui, Hawaii on Saturday, family spokeswoman Ebie McFarland said in an (More)
