Congressman: Bombing Suspect Called Himself a ‘Psychopath’
Sat, 24 Mar 2018 9:23 PM CDT www.nbcdfw.com
The suspected Austin bomber called himself a “psychopath” in a recorded confession and said he felt no remorse for deadly explosions that killed two people and terrorized the city, a U.S. congressman said Saturday…
Texas Judge Acquitted of 1 Assault Count, Hung Jury on Other
Sat, 24 Mar 2018 9:03 PM CDT www.nbcdfw.com
A South Texas judge has been acquitted on one assault charge in an alleged gun-related road rage incident but jurors were unable to reach a verdict on the second count. Williams pleaded not guilty to charges alleging he tried to run another vehicle off the road and pointed a gun at its occupants. Jurors found him not guilty on one count, then deadlocked on the other…
Parents Charged with Abusing Teen,16, Over Arranged Marriage
Sat, 24 Mar 2018 7:33 PM CDT www.nbcdfw.com
Investigators say the Iraqi parents of a 16-year-old girl who allegedly ran away from her South Texas home to avoid an arranged marriage have been charged with attacking her for refusing to wed an older man…
Several Hurt as Race Start Line Structure Collapses in Texas
Sat, 24 Mar 2018 7:30 PM CDT www.nbcdfw.com
Several runners have been hurt when part of a metal structure at the starting line collapsed before a marathon in South Texas. The city of Brownsville says in a statement the accident happened Saturday morning just before the Bi-National 10K & 5K Run. Officials did not immediately say how many people were hurt. Some were taken by ambulance to hospitals for evaluation…
Fort Worth ‘Preferred Alternative’ to House F-35 Squadron
Sat, 24 Mar 2018 2:59 PM CDT www.nbcdfw.com
Military bases in Arizona, Florida and Missouri are being studied by the Air Force along with one in Texas already identified as the preferred location for basing an Air Force Reserve squadron of 24 F-35 fighters…
Indictment: Waterslide in Fatal Accident Was ‘Deadly Weapon’
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:30 PM CDT www.nbcdfw.com
A Kansas waterslide hyped as the world’s highest was a “deadly weapon” that had already injured more than a dozen people before a 10-year-old boy was decapitated on it in 2016, according to a grand jury indictment unsealed Friday that charges the water park operator and an executive with involuntary manslaughter…
Man who robbed 12 Dallas-area banks in 5 months gets 14 years in prison
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 10:28 PM CDT www.dallasnews.com
A Dallas man who robbed a dozen banks across Dallas County in five months — while on supervised release following a previous bank-robbery conviction — has been sentenced to more than 14 years in prison…
3 Texans arrested trying to mail enough fentanyl ‘to kill everyone in Toledo,’ authorities say
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 7:28 PM CDT www.dallasnews.com
Three Houston-area residents were arrested in Ohio this week after federal authorities say they attempted to mail the synthetic opioid fentanyl back to Texas. According to a criminal complaint, authorities started monitoring a Red Roof Inn in Toledo on Monday after the hotel staff reported that three suspicious people had checked into two rooms…
Feds indict murder suspect’s fiancee in road-rage slaying of Dallas USPS driver
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 5:28 PM CDT www.dallasnews.com
A Hutchins woman who authorities say tried to help her fiancee avoid charges in the deadly road-rage shooting of a U.S Postal Service driver last month now faces legal trouble herself…
Dallas capital murder suspect linked to other attacks on elderly women across North Texas
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 5:10 PM CDT www.dallasnews.com
PLANO — A 45-year-old man is at the center of a “very large and complex investigation” involving attacks on the elderly in North Texas after police linked him to the smothering of a Dallas woman and the attempted smothering of women in Frisco and Plano…