Rubio: Second Death Penalty Three days after finding him guilty of capital murder, jurors are sending John Allen Rubio back to death row. A Hidalgo County jury deliberated ...[more]
IBWC Reduces Water Flow Again For the third time in three days, the I-B-W-C has reduced the outflows of water from Falcon Dam, with another decrease to come today. That'll bring the rate of release from 60-thousand cubic-feet-per-second down to 46-thousand c-f-s. However, ...[more]
U.S. House Approves Border Spending For the second time in a month, the U-S House has approved 700-million dollars in border security spending. The measure had been attached to a war spending bill, but was taken out before the Senate went on to pass the larger war legislation. The ...[more]
Tax Free Weekend Coming We enter the month of August this weekend, which means the annual sales tax holiday can't be too far away. August 20th through the 22nd will be the 11th annual tax-free weekend, just before kids head back to school. And once again, many ...[more]
Richmond Teen Found Safe An AMBER Alert has been canceled after a 16-year-old Richmond girl was found safe in Raton, New Mexico. Alyssa Rehfield was missing since Sunday night and investigators believed she left with a 36-year-old man she met on the internet. David Karan ...[more]
Children Asked To Leave Before Murder Police say a man who killed three people at a home in San Antonio last night may have coaxed three children outside before opening fire on three adults inside. Investigators are still trying to learn why a man pulled two handguns and killed his ...[more]
Outburst Puts Hold On Release Of Exonerated Inmate Michael Green was expected to walk out of jail today after serving 27-years for a rape he didn't commit. Now he'll wait one more day. According to a "Houston Chronicle" report, Green could be heard screaming from behind the door of a holdover ...[more]
Arrests Made At Phoenix Immigration Protests Protests were held in three major cities over Arizona's new immigration law. A number of people were arrested at an immigration protest in downtown Phoenix. A crowd gathered outside the office of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has become ...[more]
Rangel Faces 13 Charges In House Ethics Probe New York Congressman Charles Rangel faces 13 charges in a House ethics investigation. After a roughly two-year probe, the charges are related to discrepancies over taxes, fundraising and financial disclosure. Democrat Rangel also faces allegations ...[more]
Stocks Rally, But Still Finish In Negative Territory Stocks on Wall Street managed to close near even despite a dip at midday. The Dow was down more than 100 points after tech companies Nvidia and Symantec cut expectations for the next quarter. The Dow closed 31 points lower to 10-467. The Nasdaq ...[more]
Arizona Files Appeal In Immigration Case Arizona has filed an appeal in the federal lawsuit which resulted in an injunction against portions of the state's new immigration law. The filing was made with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this afternoon, and the state is asking for an ...[more]
Evidence Links Soldier To Afghan War Leaks Military investigators reportedly have found solid evidence linking a soldier with the leak of thousands of classified documents on the war in Afghanistan. "The Wall Street Journal" cited defense officials as saying a search of computers used by ...[more]
Chris Tucker Owes Millions In Back Taxes Hollywood funnyman Chris Tucker is facing a serious financial hit. TMZ.com is reporting that the "Rush Hour" star owes millions of dollars in back taxes. On Tuesday, the IRS filed documents with the L.A. County Recorder's Office stating that ...[more]
Snooki's The "Jersey Shore" Fans' Favorite Snooki's the big draw on MTV's "Jersey Shore." In an ongoing AccessHollywood.com poll, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi leads the list with 37-percent saying she's their favorite character on the reality series. Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino is coming in ...[more]
Class Ring Found After 36 Years A woman who lost her high school class ring at the San Jacinto battlefield 36 years ago has it back. Archeologists working at the site unearthed the ring than Judith Goode Fesler of Kerrville lost in 1974. A volunteer matched initials on the ring to ...[more]
False Alarm on AA Flight Fire trucks stood by as an American Airlines flight from Newark, N.J., to Dallas landed at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport today. A warning light in the cockpit indicated the rear slide might have deployed but television images of the ...[more]
TIFT Tourney Gets Underway It's a big fishing weekend on the lower Texas coast! Over 500 boats and 1,500 anglers are hitting the water in Port Isabel and South Padre Island today and through the weekend for the the 71st Annual Texas International Fishing Tournament, the ...[more]
Rubio: Second Death Penalty
