Web update: 09/07/2008 Request Denied For An Injunction Another blow to opponents of the border fence. A federal judge in El Paso has denied their request for an injunction to stop construction of the fence on environmental and constitutional grounds. Several environmental groups, including two from ...[more]
Plans For VA Hospital Change Slightly If the mayor of La Feria is right, the Veterans Administration will be focusing its efforts, not on building a hospital in the Valley, but on expanding its clinic in Harlingen. Steve Brewer says V-A officials will not be pursing the hospital ...[more]
Wright's Execution Next Week Moved To October Next week's scheduled execution of a homeless man
convicted of taking part in a fatal stabbing has been put off until
next month.
Forty-two-year-old Gregory Wright faced lethal injection Tuesday
for the 1997 stabbing death of a 52-year-old ...[more]
Texas Man Accused Of Selling Cyanide Pleads Guilty A man suspected of trying to sell a
25-gallon drum of cyanide to an FBI informant has pleaded guilty in
federal court.
Jeffrey Don Detrixhe pleaded guilty to one count of prohbition
against chemical weapons.
The 38-year-old Panhandle ...[more]
Wheelchair Robber Rolls In, Rips Off 7-Eleven A wheelchair getaway at a 7-Eleven has police
looking for an unusual robbery suspect.
Authorities said Friday that a man in a wheelchair entered a
Dallas convenience store this week, rolled straight toward the cash
register and began ...[more]
Another Dumb Criminal Stumped Another dumb criminal has made headlines. Police busted a man in Joliet, Illinois buying lottery tickets after he allegedly held up a bank. Jack Menolascina demanded money from a teller at a bank yesterday morning. After he fled on foot, he ...[more]
2nd Trial Starting For Infamous Texas KFC Murders When Darnell Hartsfield saw the inside of a Texas
prison cell for the first time in 1984, it was for an aggravated
robbery the year before.
Now, prosecutors accuse the Tyler man of a far more heinous
crime just three days before his arrest ...[more]
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Wright's Execution Next Week Moved To October
Texas Man Accused Of Selling Cyanide Pleads Guilty
Wheelchair Robber Rolls In, Rips Off 7-Eleven
Another Dumb Criminal Stumped
2nd Trial Starting For Infamous Texas KFC Murders
