Karmelo Anthony, now 19, did not testify in his own defense over the killing of Austin Metcalf, whose death stunned a booming Dallas suburb where the two students attended different schools.
By Jayme Lozano Carver and Stephen Simpson, The Texas Tribune
Three more cases of New World screwworm were confirmed in Texas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday, bringing the total number of cases to five.
Two people have been arrested in connection with an animal cruelty investigation involving a dog found severely injured along Interstate Highway 35 last year
Mandi Roberts, one of the first female athletic directors in Central Texas history, said the championship shows what can happen when a community rallies behind its team.
By The Associated Press and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press
A federal judge halted an effort by the Trump administration to force states to comply with a range of conditions to get billions of dollars from the federal food aid program.
The Cameron Park Zoo announced last week it will discontinue its elephant program, about six months after its last elephant, Tembo, died in December. Zoo Director Brendan Wiley said international treaties and laws established decades ago to curb the ivory trade — protections he called necessary — also changed how zoos can maintain elephant populations.
Army medics on Fort Hood are training alongside allied forces in the Joint Emergency Medicine Exercise, which brings together military medical professionals from around the world for critical hands-on training in the field.
Adam Hoffman, the disgraced former Waco attorney who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing his son’s friend for years, will have to register as a sex offender in Sarpy County, Nebraska, where he is now living with his wife.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued a stay of execution for death row inmate Ramiro Rubi Ibarra more than five years ago and ordered the McLennan County trial court to conduct a hearing related to two remaining appellate issues.
A state trooper arrested a teenage driver after he found an underage girl “very intoxicated” in the passenger seat during a traffic stop on Interstate 35 in McLennan County.
An 18-wheeler slammed on its brakes to avoid a herd of runaway cows, in turn causing a communitywide effort to drive the cattle back through town to their home.
Waco Police arrested a man Monday after he attacked and restrained his girlfriend in his vehicle, preventing her from escaping while traveling on I-35.
A Waco man was arrested Tuesday after police say he broke into a home through a window and assaulted a woman, including choking her and then attacking her outside.
