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Dallas man gets death for drowning 2 sons in creek
A father who told two of his sons to pretend they were swimming as he drowned them in a Dallas-area creek was sentenced to death on Thursday. The Dallas County jury took about 3½ hours to sentence Naim Rasool Muhammad. The same jury had taken less than 10 minutes to ...
Ex-police officer gets prison for abusing suspect
A former Laredo police officer has been sentenced to a year in prison after admitting to abusing a suspect in his patrol car last year. A federal judge in Laredo sentenced Frank Carter on Thursday. Carter had pleaded guilty March 7 to violating the civil rights of the male suspect ...
Police: Man fatally shot was Mexican attorney
Police say a man fatally shot in an SUV in the town square of an upscale North Texas city was an attorney from Mexico. Southlake police Chief Stephen Mylett said Thursday that Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa might have been affiliated with a McAllen law firm. Mylett said Wednesday evening's shooting ...
8th person pleads in $30M NASA contract fraud
An eighth person pleaded guilty Thursday to his role in a $30 million fraud and bribery scheme that duped NASA into awarding contracts to companies that falsely claimed eligibility for preferences granted to minority-owned businesses. Michael Dunkel, 59, of Merritt Island, Fla., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Alexandria ...
Va. students build disorientation chair for NASA
Brandon Hogan smiled broadly on Thursday as he sat in a chair at NASA's Langley Research Center that spun around and around, intentionally making himself dizzy. But the high school senior in blue jeans and a green T-shirt wasn't goofing off on a facility tour: He was testing out a ...
Texas man found guilty of murder in 1984 case
A North Texas man has been convicted of murder in the death of a teenager whose body was dumped in a rock pit in 1984. A Collin County jury on Thursday found 50-year-old Alonzo Grayson Jr. guilty in the killing of 18-year-old Bobby Ray Taylor in January 1984. The jury ...
2013 hurricane names: From Andrea to Wendy
Weather forecasters are predicting another busy Atlantic hurricane season. The storms will get their names from an alphabetical list of 21 names: WHAT NAMES ARE ON THE LIST? Andrea, Barry, Chantal, Dorian, Erin, Fernand, Gabrielle, Humberto, Ingrid, Jerry, Karen, Lorenzo, Melissa, Nestor, Olga, Pablo, Rebekah, Sebastien, Tanya, Van and Wendy. ...
Legislature approves sexual assault protections
Gov. Rick Perry will consider new measures to protect victims of sexual assault. In a unanimous vote Thursday, the Senate approved a bill that would give victims the right to track physical evidence collected in a rape kit. It has already passed the House. Another bill approved by both chambers ...
Jury deliberating man's penalty for killing sons
Jurors have begun deliberating whether a North Texas man should die for drowning his two young sons. The Dallas County jury began deliberations Thursday on whether Naim Rasool Muhammad should get the death penalty or life imprisonment without parole. The jury found Muhammad guilty of capital murder in the drowning ...
Nearly all US states see hefty drop in teen births
The nation's record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and among Hispanics, according to a new government report. All states but West Virginia and North Dakota showed significant drops over five years. But the Mountain States of Arizona, ...
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