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State attorney general must also apologize to four former aides whose claims initiated ongoing FBI investigationThe attorney general for the state of Texas, Ken Paxton, has agreed to apologize and pay $3.3m in taxpayer money to four former staffers who…
Davion Irvin, charged with six counts of animal cruelty and two counts of burglary, remains jailed on $25,000 bondA 24-year-old man linked to an unusual string of crimes at the Dallas zoo told police that after he stole two monkeys he took them on to t…
Balentine, 54, was convicted of triple murder in what attorneys argued was a trial marred by racial biasA man convicted of killing three teenagers while they slept in a Texas home more than 25 years ago was executed on Wednesday, the sixth inmate to be…
Harry Whittington spent week in intensive care after being inadvertently shot by then vice-president on quail-hunting tripA Texas attorney who was inadvertently shot by US vice-president Dick Cheney during a 2006 hunting trip – and then apologized to h…
Charging documents accuse Davion Irvin, 24, of taking monkeys from enclosure and say he intended to return to zooA man arrested on charges related to mysterious incidents at the Dallas zoo planned to return to the zoo and steal more animals if released…
Texas senator says he ‘never said I’m going to unilaterally comply’ with his own proposed restrictionTed Cruz has introduced a bill to limit US senators to two terms in office, thereby removing from Washington “permanently entrenched politicians … tota…
Appeals court submission exposes racial toxicity in case of Black man John Balentine, sentenced to death for 1999 triple murderIn April 1999, John Balentine, a Black man on trial for murder in Amarillo, Texas, sat before an all-white jury as they delib…
Solitary confinement inmates protest against brutal form of incarceration but state says it’s only aware of six striking menPrisoners in Texas who have been kept in solitary confinement in some cases for more than 20 years are sustaining a hunger strik…
Greg Kelley, who was exonerated in 2019, uses money from settlement to buy 1.3-acre Texas property for his mother Years before Greg Kelley was freed from a wrongful conviction, the Texas man’s mother – Rosa Kelley – sold her home to help pay his legal …
Davion Irvin, 24, charged with six counts of animal cruelty after two of zo’s emperor tamarin monkeys found in abandoned homeAn arrest has been made in the case of the missing monkeys apparently abducted from the Dallas Zoo, whose shock disappearance w…