Month: April 2012

DALLAS (AP) _ Dallas police are investigating after a 4-month-old puppy was badly burned last week in the southeast Dallas area of Pleasant Grove.  Police received a call April 4 about a group of males [Read More…]

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) _ Police in this staunchly conservative West Texas city say they will keep close tabs on a recently opened cleaning service that offers nude maids. Lubbock police Sgt. Jonathan Stewart said Tuesday [Read More…]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The state’s electric grid operator is predicting that Texas will make it through the summer without rolling outages after the system was pushed to the brink last year. Trip Doggett, CEO [Read More…]

SURFSIDE BEACH, Texas (AP) _ Authorities believe the death of a 26-year-old Houston man at a packed Texas Gulf Coast beach party and the wounding of two others was the result of a drive-by shooting. [Read More…]

DALLAS (AP) _ A 14-year-old boy is dead and two other teen suspects are in custody after a break-in at a house in a blue-collar neighborhood of southeast Dallas. A Dallas police statement says Luis [Read More…]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ An insurance industry group estimates the tornadoes and hailstorms that caused scattered devastation in North Texas last week has prompted damage claims topping $300 million so far and could top $500 [Read More…]

TULSA, Okla. (AP) _ Police documents show that the two suspects arrested in a shooting rampage that terrorized Tulsa, Okla.’s black community and left three people dead have confessed. The documents given to The Associated [Read More…]