Month: May 2012

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ A new report says the percentage of U.S. homeowners behind on their mortgage payments dropped in the first three months of this year to the lowest level since 2009. Credit reporting [Read More…]

DALLAS (AP) _ An 18-year-old man has been jailed and charged with robbery and theft after he was accused of trying to rob a suburban Dallas police headquarters. Keithan Kennard Manuel is in Dallas County [Read More…]

DALLAS (AP) _ Authorities in a Texas town under investigation for allegedly shaking down motorists for their cash sometimes used the travelers’ children as bargaining chips in their attempt to seize money. Documents reviewed by [Read More…]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ A judge has ruled the state’s environmental agency should have held a hearing about potential harm to residents prior to licensing a West Texas radioactive waste dump. The dump began receiving [Read More…]

HOUSTON (AP) _ Houston’s police chief believes an ex-officer accused in the 2010 videotaped beating of a 15-year-old burglary suspect kicked and stomped on the boy. Police Chief Charles McClelland Jr. told jurors Tuesday that [Read More…]

DALLAS (AP) _ Police have charged a 16-year-old girl and her boyfriend with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a grandfather who was protecting his family from masked intruders in his Dallas home. Dallas [Read More…]