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UPDATE: Texas Executes Juan Edward Castillo

Associated Press

Posted on May 16, 2018 · The execution is the 11th this year in the U.S., and the sixth in Texas

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Texas Appeals Court Overturns Man’s 1998 Murder Conviction

Associated Press

Posted on May 10, 2018 · John Earl Nolley had been sentenced in 1998 to life in prison

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Texas Executes Erick Davila, Who Killed Two People Including A 5-Year-Old Girl

Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune

Posted on April 26, 2018 · Erick Davila was executed Wednesday evening for a 2008 shooting at a child's birthday party that left his rival gang member's mother and 5-year-old daughter dead. His case was heard and ultimately rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court last year.

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Texas Border Patrol Agent Charged In Deaths Of Woman, Child

Associated Press

Posted on April 11, 2018 · Ronald Anthony Burgos Aviles, 28, was being held without bond in the Webb County jail

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Houston Teen Accused Of Killing 8 Year Old Boy Is Refused Bail

Associated Press

Posted on April 9, 2018 · An 18-year-old has been refused bail for allegedly killing an 8-year-old

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Spring Teens Charged With Capital Murder

HPM Digital Team

Posted on February 1, 2018 · The two suspects are booked in the Harris County jail

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UPDATE: Dallas Man Executed For Killing Daughters While Mom Listened

Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune / Michael Graczyk, AP

Posted on February 1, 2018 · His was the nation's third execution this year, all in Texas

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Texas Executes Dallas Man For Killing Ex-Girlfriend In 1999

Associated Press

Posted on January 31, 2018 · William Rayford is the nation's second inmate put to death this year

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Mexico Registers Its Highest Homicides On Record

JAMES FREDRICK, NPR

Posted on January 25, 2018 · The country racked up nearly 30,000 homicides in 2017, the most since it began reporting the statistic in 1997. But that doesn't make it the "most dangerous" country as President Trump claimed

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UPDATE: HPD Arrests 28 Year-Old Woman Regarding Murder And Baby Abduction Case In Southwest Houston

Associated Press / HPM Digital Team

Posted on December 21, 2017 · Chief Art Acevedo says suspect Erika Gisela Miranda-Alvarez had known Carolina Miranda Flores, stabbed mother of Shamali Flores, for about five years

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Texas Executes Robert Pruett, Who Insisted On Innocence In Prison Guard’s Murder

Cassandra Pollock, The Texas Tribune

Posted on October 13, 2017 · Robert Pruett spent the last 15 years of his life insisting he was innocent of the murder of prison guard Daniel Nagle. On Thursday night, he was executed

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Prison Inmate Edward Harold Bell

Houston Matters

Texas Prisoner Responds To Theory That He’s Responsible For Galveston Serial Murders

Michael Hagerty

Posted on August 22, 2017 · Is Edward Harold Bell a serial killer who preyed on young women around Galveston in the 1970s – or is he just the subject of a vast conspiracy?

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Harris County Case Raises Questions About The Use Of Deadly Force

Gail Delaughter

Posted on June 12, 2017 · Sheriff's Deputy Chauna Thompson and her husband Terry Thompson are charged with murder in the strangulation death of a man outside a northeast Harris County restaurant. 24-year-old John Hernandez died after an altercation which was caught on video.

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Prosecutors: Times Square Driver Wanted To ‘Kill Them All’

Associated Press

Posted on May 19, 2017 · The driver of the vehicle Richard Rojas appeared in court today as prosecutors detailed his felony charge

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Houston Matters

Investigators Think They Know Who Killed Eleven Girls Around Galveston in the 1970s

Michael Hagerty

Posted on April 27, 2017 · A new documentary series called The Eleven takes a fresh look at who might have killed eleven young women in and around Galveston in the 1970s.

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Houston-area man among 31 Patriot Front members arrested near an Idaho pride event

Martha Bellisle, Associated Press

Posted on June 13, 2022 · Authorities arrested 31 members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front near an Idaho pride event Saturday after they were found packed into the back of a U-Haul truck with riot gear.

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Texas breaks power demand record during June heat wave

Matthew Watkins, The Texas Tribune

Posted on June 13, 2022 · The state’s grid operator was able to maintain supply without needing to call for any conservation.

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U.S. House approves massive $31 billion “Ike Dike” project to protect Texas coast from hurricanes

Erin Douglas, The Texas Tribune

Posted on June 9, 2022 · The U.S. House voted to authorize the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to begin planning for the massive coastal barrier project in Galveston Bay, but funding is not yet secured.

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A prison bus collided with a truck in Conroe hours after Texas suspended inmate transportation

Matt Harab

Posted on June 7, 2022 · Conroe police said the van was transporting an inmate and three guards, all of whom were hurt in the collision.

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