Web update: 07/05/2008
 Pharr Church Ordered To Pay
A church in Pharr has been ordered to pay a half-million dollars to the parents of a teenage boy who'd been sexually abused by a former music ...[more]
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 McAllen Man Facing Child Porn Charges
Another case of a man facing child porn charges - this time in McAllen. 30-year-old Jack Arnold Heflin entered a guilty plea to three counts of child pornography promotion and one of possessing pornographic material depicting children. Heflin, who ...[more]
 New Anti-Gang Task Force Formed
The recent shooting of a Harlingen police officer, and the stabbing death of a teenager in that same area of town, has sparked the creation of an anti-gang task force in Harlingen. Mayor Chris Boswell has appointed a ten-member group to study gang ...[more]
 Is Harlingen Ready For SIngle Member Districts?
We've got the signatures we need. So said the groups working to bring a single-member district system of government to the city of Harlingen. Supporters of the plan have spent the last several weeks gathering names on a petition, calling for the ...[more]
 Brownsville Smoking Ban Now In Place
A tougher public smoking ban is now in place in the biggest city in the Valley. With very little public opposition, Brownsville city commissioners this week gave their final o-k to a new anti-smoking ordinance. City Commissioner Anthony Troiani ...[more]
 Man Admits Stabbing Wife After Blaming Intruder
Harris County sheriff's deputies say a man who
initially said a spiky-haired intruder fatally stabbed his wife has
confessed to the crime.
36-year-old Damion Faulkner was charged with murder in the death
of his wife, 49-year-old Dorothy ...[more]
 Teen Arrested For Throwing Brick
A 17-year-old has been accused of hurling a brick
that went through a woman's windshield in Houston, breaking her jaw
and seriously injuring her left eye.
Jace Kettler was arrested Thursday at his home and released on
bail. He's charged ...[more]
 Questions Raised About Capital Case 24 Years Later
It was three months after four bodies were
found shot execution-style in an airplane hangar on the B&B Ranch
north of Dallas before Lester Leroy Bower Jr. was charged with
capital murder.
Four months later, a Grayson County jury deliberated ...[more]
 Texas Leads Nation In Boating Fatalities
Roland Paredez says when he's out in
his boat, everyone - even the black Labrador puppy - wears a life
jacket.
His safety-minded outlook is one officials wish more Texans
would adopt.
Over the Fourth of July weekend, game wardens are ...[more]
 El Paso Man Charged With Filing False Kidnapping
Dona Ana County sheriff's investigators
say a man from El Paso, Texas, allegedly filed a false kidnapping
report to avoid getting in trouble with his wife.
Investigators say Juan Carlos Rivas told police he had been
bound and left in the ...[more]
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