Articles by Bill Oliver

DALLAS (AP) _ A suburban Dallas police chief says he has no regrets about the decision not to arrest the son of Dallas police chief David Brown hours before the son shot and killed a [Read More…]

HOUSTON (AP) _ Federal aviation officials have revoked the pilot’s license of a man who flew a single-engine plane as low as 15 feet above a Galveston County beach. The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday [Read More…]

ELDORADO, Texas (AP) _ A West Texas jury has sentenced a member of a polygamist group to 17 years in prison for sexual assault of a child. The charge against 39-year-old Abram Harker Jeffs arose [Read More…]

ROCKPORT, Texas (AP) _ More than five dozen brown pelicans rehabilitated from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have been released in Texas. The 62 pelicans arrived on Coast Guard cargo planes Wednesday [Read More…]

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Federal Aviation Administration has approved the expansion of unmanned aircraft flights to patrol the entire Texas-Mexico border. In a prepared statement, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison announced the Wednesday decision expanding [Read More…]

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) _ Brownsville police are investigating the theft of a 140-year-old blue and white statue of the Lady of Lourdes. The 2-foot tall statue of the Virgin Mary was reported stolen this week [Read More…]

HOUSTON (AP) _ A judge has granted a request to have jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford tried separately from his three co-defendants on charges that they bilked investors out of $7 billion in a [Read More…]

With the death of College Station City Councilman Larry Stewart comes the process of filling the remainder of his term, which runs through May of next year. How to go about doing that has raised [Read More…]

TxDOT has a couple of advisories for motorists around Bryan/College Station. One involves the widening of Wellborn Road. From Wednesday through Friday, Cain Road will be closed at Wellborn Road. Traffic on Cain Road will [Read More…]

One of the deadliest intersections in Grimes County has claimed its third life this year. DPS Trooper William Kettler tells our partner station KWBC Navasota News the victim, 84 year old Earl Owen Milsap of [Read More…]