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Texas not excluded from Boy Scout sex abuse files
It took a court order to force the Texas-headquartered Boy Scouts of America to release files concerning decades of alleged or known sexual misbehavior. The Boy Scouts have been strongly criticized for trying to fight the release of letters, memos and news articles detailing child sexual abuse by youth leaders across the U.S. A… Read More »
Second plane from Texas airport involved in fatal crash; 4 dead
Two planes that took off from Northwest Regional Airport crashed within two weeks of one another. The unusually close occurrence of fatal airplane accidents at the Roanoke facility in Texas has puzzled officials. No parallels seem to exist that connect the two aviation accidents, although investigators are still trying to determine what happened in… Read More »
Texas immigrant families struggle with girls’ deaths
An older teen was arrested in Amarillo after he was turned over to police by his family. The 19-year-old suspect is accused of causing a fatal pedestrian-vehicle accident after striking and killing two friends walking at an intersection in the north Texas community. The girls killed in the car accident were 13- and 14-year-old… Read More »
High-profile SMU student accused of sex crime
The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office is expected to forward a Southern Methodist University student’s case to a grand jury. The 19-year-old male sophomore is accused of a sexual assault against another male SMU student. According to police accounts, the alleged victim of the sexual abuse reported two incidents on and near the University… Read More »
Texas pilot, passenger survive Gulf of Mexico crash
A pair of Texas men is lucky to be alive after the plane they occupied suffered a hard water landing. The aviation accident over the Gulf of Mexico involved fire, a smoky cockpit and a water rescue. The plane had taken off from a Texas airport in Baytown. The experienced pilot had flown the… Read More »
Police sift crash evidence in Texas teen’s death
Circumstances surrounding the death of a Texas City teenager are under investigation in Galveston. The Ford Mustang that the 18-year-old and four others occupied plummeted off a seawall close to East Beach. A preliminary police report dismissed the possibility of a drunk driving accident. A reconstruction team is examining evidence for other possibilities for… Read More »
Lackland instructor acquitted of sex crime by military court
An instructor at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio was acquitted of unwanted sexual contact after a Texas military jury spent nearly five hours deliberating the case. The staff sergeant could have been sentenced to a prison term of over 40 years, if he had been convicted. The sergeant is not the only… Read More »
Two dead in flight lesson crash near Texas airport
Two men, a teacher and a student, died during a flight lesson near the Llano Municipal Airport, north of San Antonio. The fatal airplane accident happened when a 60-year-old instructor and his 51-year-old student were practicing “touch-and-go” maneuvers — repeated takeoffs and short landings that do not bring the aircraft to a full stop…. Read More »
Dallas highway race, alcohol caused seven-vehicle crash
An early morning multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 35 was caused by street racing, according to police investigators and a witness who saw the Dallas crash. Two people died in the multiple car accidents, three victims were hospitalized and an unidentified person was charged with criminally negligent homicide. Chaos erupted on the highway after a… Read More »
More traffic, more fatal Texas crashes around Eagle Ford
Money, people and traffic keep rolling into McMullen County in South Texas. The county and about a dozen other counties surrounding it were not this active before the Eagle Ford Shale oil prospect opened a few years ago. While the economic boost to local communities has been welcome, the rapid and heavy increase of… Read More »
