Month: August 2012

FARMERS BRANCH, Texas (AP) _ A federal judge has struck down a Dallas suburb’s municipal election system, saying that it violates federal voting rights law. U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater ruled Thursday that Farmers [Read More…]

SAN ANTONIO (AP) _ A military jury has sentenced a Texas Air Force basic training instructor to 30 days’ confinement and reduction in rank for his part in a sex scandal surrounding instructors at the [Read More…]

BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) _ A grand jury has amended the charges against the suspect in a fatal shooting outside a Texas courthouse to make him eligible for the death penalty. Bartholomew Granger, of Jefferson County, [Read More…]