A 27-year-old Cleveland man has been sentenced to federal prison for a drug trafficking scheme in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales on May 17.

his lawyer said Wednesday. No criminal charges have been filed against Tomas Yarrington, who served as governor of Tamaulipas state, which borders Texas, from 1999 to 2004. Civil actions were filed Tuesday seeking to seize a condominium in South ...

Moreover, the Texas Commission on Jail Standards has been hounding Nolan County to ... why did county commissioners have to choose the real estate right next to one of the city's top historic and cultural sites for a new jail?

A Texas man has been sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay $2.7 million in restitution for starting a New Mexico wildfire with toilet paper that burned... Read more »

Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo, who has been accused of biting through his lip and spitting blood on deputies escorting him after a court hearing last month, wore an oval mask over his nose and mouth. Abdo is accused of planning to bomb a Texas restaurant that was filled with soldiers.

McALLEN, Texas — A lawyer for the former ... millions of dollars of drug cartel bribes in Texas real estate says his client is innocent of the allegations and does not own the properties. No criminal charges have been filed against Tomas ...

A 27-year-old Cleveland man has been sentenced to federal prison for a drug trafficking ... Pennsylvania State Police, and Texas Department of Public Safety, and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Randall L. Fluke and Christopher T.

A man who fled a North Texas courthouse to avoid possible arrest has been hurt after a chase in which he allegedly stole and wrecked a police car

AUSTIN, Fla., May 15 (UPI) -- The planned execution of a mentally ill man in Texas has been stayed by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Prosecutors in West Texas say two convicted gang members have been sentenced to prison in a federal drug and racketeering case.

CONROE, Texas -- A judge has ruled two Houston-area children found living in an old school bus will remain in foster care. The decision came at a custody hearing Wednesday in Conroe. Child Protective Services spokeswoman Gwen Carter says the children’s mother, Sherrie Shorten, recently released from prison, has been cooperative and CPS is working with her. CPS took the children into custody in ...

The Texas Attorney General's office, which handles capital case appeals, declined comment on the report after it was posted online Tuesday by the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. DeLuna claimed the killer was a man named Carolos Hernandez whom ...

Sweeney was a lawyer of more than 20 years’ experience working in the Dallas office of Cozen O’Connor ... The spokesperson doesn’t say why Sweeney, who’s been licensed to practice in Texas since 1986, is no longer with the firm.

MIDLAND, Texas — Prosecutors say the drug supplier in a 2010 oxycodone overdose death in West Texas has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Investigators in Midland say 50-year-old Charles Robert Deatherage was arrested last spring in Moore ...

McALLEN, Texas (AP) _ The former Mexican state governor whom U.S. prosecutors accuse of investing drug cartel bribes worth millions ... and is innocent of the allegations, his lawyer said Wednesday. No criminal charges have been filed against Tomas ...

MIDLAND, Texas—Prosecutors in West Texas say two convicted gang members have been sentenced to prison in a federal drug and racketeering case. A judge in Midland on Thursday sentenced 33-year-old Santos Almanza to life behind bars. Officials ...

The women, from Cleveland, Texas, have since been indicted in the robberies of ... Herrin, also known as Evie Fancher and Evie Bowie Herrin, is accused of disguising herself during the robberies by wearing an ill-fitting wig, sunglasses and ...

WEATHERFORD, Texas — A Parker County man has been sentenced to 40 ... The plea was entered May 10 in the 415th District Court. Attorney Mac Smith, who was retained by the man shortly after his arrest last summer, declined comment.

A Texas man has been sentenced for starting a New Mexico wildfire that burned more than 53,000 acres in the Lincoln National Forest.

Karen Denney, a partner in the Labor and Employment Practice Group at Haynes and Boone, LLP, has been named the 2012 Outstanding Young Lawyer of Texas by the Texas Young Lawyers Association (TYLA). The statewide award will be presented at the TYLA Annual ...

his lawyer said Wednesday. No criminal charges have been filed against Tomas Yarrington, who served as governor of Tamaulipas state, which borders Texas, from 1999 to 2004. Civil actions were filed Tuesday seeking to seize a condominium in South Padre ...

A lawyer for the former governor ... of investing millions of dollars of drug cartel bribes in Texas real estate says his client is innocent of the allegations and does not own the properties. No criminal charges have been filed against Tomas ...

his lawyer said Wednesday. No criminal charges have been filed against Tomas Yarrington, who served as governor of Tamaulipas state, which borders Texas, from 1999 to 2004. Civil actions were filed Tuesday seeking to seize a condominium in South Padre ...

(AP) McALLEN, Texas - A lawyer for the former ... investing millions of dollars of drug cartel bribes in Texas real estate says his client is innocent of the allegations and does not own the properties. No criminal charges have been filed against Tomas ...

NEW YORK, NY-- - Levi & Korsinsky announces that a class action lawsuit has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division on behalf of investors ...

Carson had been found mentally unfit to stand trial in the murder of his wife and was in Texas for mental health treatment ... at the hospital and once released he was booked into jail. The Carson's son also tells Eyewitness News he doesn ...

WACO, Texas (AP) -- A soldier accused of plotting to bomb Fort Hood troops is wearing a mask during jury selection at his federal trial -- the first time his face has been covered in court. Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo is accused of biting through his ...

She interned with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office ... She worked for the Center for Juvenile Law and Policy in Los Angeles, California, and Disability Rights Texas. Nishimura has been awarded a two-year post-graduate fellowship ...

This case is being investigated by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Miriam E. Rea. Jesus Escobedo-Jimenez, 54, of Bartonville, Texas, has been indicted for a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922 ...

NEW YORK — Arbitrator Shyam Das has finished hearing arguments ... No arrest has been made. Sanders judge orders child support McKINNEY — A Texas judge has ordered Hall of Famer Deion Sanders to pay $10,550 in monthly child support as ...

SAN ANGELO, Texas — No charges have been filed yet in the case against Vance Winston "Winn" Palmer Jr. who faces a possible DWI and misdemeanor marijuana ... Tom Green County Attorney Chris Taylor said he is reviewing about 12 hours of audio ...

Kids found living in bus will stay in foster care CONROE, Texas (AP) — A judge has ruled two Houston-area children found living in an old school bus will remain in foster care. Child Protective Services spokeswoman Gwen Carter says the children's mother, Sherrie Shorten, recently released from prison, has been cooperative and CPS is working with her.

"They basically said, 'If you all want to leave without going to jail tonight and take your kids with you ... The Justice Department has been investigating authorities in Tenaha and Shelby County since they were named in a 2008 class action lawsuit ...

A Texas man convicted of trying to help al-Qaida has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. A federal judge in Houston also ordered Barry Walter Bujol (boo-ZHAWL') Jr. to pay a $10,000 fine at a sentencing hearing Thursday. Bujol was convicted ...

Two members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas have been sentenced to federal prison for their role in an 2008 aggravated assault.

His lawyer says Staley is severely mentally ill, suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, and has been observed catatonic or lying on the floor of his jail cell covered in ... as the trio wreaked havoc in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

I have been following some interesting tracking developments in Texas affecting court reporters for about a year now. As I noted in June 2011, an article in the Austin Statesman took a look at the subject and wondered if the job of court reporter was starting to resemble a "system of medieval scribes" that might not be long for this world. Earlier in 2011, the Texas Conference of State Court ...

The defendant had been sentenced to prison in 1992 in Kaufman ... state jail in that county in 2000 for delivery of cocaine; and sentenced that year to 12 years in federal prison in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ...

"I've been in Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Montana — I've been everywhere ... Andy Steve Roach, 46, was sentenced last month to 20 years in prison for the crime. Sandoval also said he knew Mark Napier Kirby, another homeless man who ...

McALLEN, Texas—The former Mexican state governor whom U.S. prosecutors accuse of investing drug cartel bribes worth ... and is innocent of the allegations, his lawyer said Wednesday. No criminal charges have been filed against Tomas Yarrington ...

A North Texas man has been sentenced to a 40-year prison term for sexually assaulting his daughter for more than a decade