Man convicted in fatal stabbing of 11-year-old Houston boy
HOUSTON (AP) — A man was convicted Tuesday in the fatal stabbing of an 11-year-old Houston boy as the child walked home from school in 2016.Jurors deliberated for about three hours before finding 33-y[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]
sanmarcosrecord.comMan convicted in Texas girl's death as family went to store
A jury on Friday convicted a man of capital murder for the 2018 death of a 7-year-old Black girl in a drive-by shooting that her family initially believed was racially motivated. Following the jury’s guilty verdict, Larry Woodruffe, 27, was given an automatic sentence of life in prison without parole. Woodruffe was one of two men charged with killing Jazmine Barnes on Dec. 30, 2018, as she and her family drove to a grocery store in Houston.
news.yahoo.com‘It’s just more and more lanes’: the Texan revolt against giant new highways
Residents are voicing fury over expansions set to displace thousands while Biden’s administration last year launched an investigation into a Houston project ‘There’s no train, there’s no bus, there’s no anything that supports mass transportation. It doesn’t exist.’ Photograph: Arturo Olmos/The Guardian Texas, with its wide-laned roads and supersized highways, seems like an unlikely place for a rebellion against the supremacy of American car culture. But last week a band of residents from across
news.yahoo.comMelissa Lucio's execution delayed by Texas appeals court
A Texas appeals court on Monday delayed the execution of a woman amid growing doubts about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter in a case that has garnered the support of lawmakers, celebrities and even some of the jurors who sentenced her to death. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a request by Melissa Lucio’s lawyers for a stay of execution so a lower court can review her claims that new evidence would exonerate her. It was not immediately known when the lower court begin reviewing her case. Lucio had been set for lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2007 death of her daughter Mariah in Harlingen, a city of about 75,000 in Texas’ southern tip.
news.yahoo.comAlejandro Torres Jr.
Alejandro Torres Jr. Alejandro Torres Jr. 36, of San Antonio died April 20, 2022, at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston. A visitation will begin on Tuesday, April 26, at 1 p.m. and a rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. at Rushing-Estes-Knowles Mortuary. A funeral mass will be held on Wednesday, April 27
uvaldeleadernews.comOhtani overpowers in 2-way performance, Angels blank Astros
Shohei Ohtani was winless with a 5.92 ERA in six starts against the Houston Astros entering Wednesday's start. Watching the superstar's performance from his perch in the dugout, Los Angeles Angels manager Joe Maddon could feel Ohtani was determined to change his fortunes against the Astros on Wednesday night. “I think he just had enough of Houston giving him a hard time and he wanted to go out there tonight and do something about it, both on the mound and at the plate," Maddon said.
news.yahoo.comTexas inmate who sought pastor's touch gets execution date
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas death row inmate who won a reprieve when his request for his pastor to pray out loud and touch him as he received his lethal injection sparked legal debate has a new execution d[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]
sanmarcosrecord.comUTRGV baseball dominates Houston on the road
The UTRGV baseball team scored five runs during the fourth inning to ignite the offense and beat the Houston Cougars 9-1 in nonconference play Tuesday at Schroeder Park in Houston. Up 1-0 entering the inning, the Vaqueros (18-14) put two on with one out, setting up an RBI double by second baseman DeAndre’ Shelton. Blake finished 3-for-5 with five RBIs and two runs scored while finishing a double short of the cycle. Shelton also had a multi-hit game, going 2-for-4 with a double, an RBI and two runs scored. Junior J.C. Ariza and graduate student Max Balderrama Jr. each pitched a scoreless inning to close the game.
myrgv.com3 indicted for roles in awarding COVID outreach contract
HOUSTON (AP) — Three people who have worked for the top elected official in Harris County were indicted on Monday after being accused by prosecutors of steering a nearly $11 million contract for COVID[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]
sanmarcosrecord.comThree of Lina Hidalgo’s aides, including chief of staff, indicted in Harris County contract award scandal
The felony charges are misuse of official information and tampering with a government record. Hidalgo, who oversees Harris County, has the largest constituency of any elected Democratic executive in the state.
TSTC Building Construction Technology student accepts job offer while at SkillsUSA
Alfredo Martinez, a Texas State Technical College student training in Building Construction Technology at TSTC’s Harlingen campus, may have gone to the SkillsUSA Texas Postsecondary Leadership and Skills Conference in Houston in hopes of winning a gold medal in the Cabinetry competition.
myrgv.comTraces of Texas’ Throwback Thursday: An Aerial View of the Astrodome
Traces of Texas’ Throwback Thursday: An Aerial View of the AstrodomeTraces of Texas reader Frank Pasket was in the Coast Guard during the 1960s and was nice enough to send in this amazing picture of himself flying a helicopter over the Astrodome in Houston back in 1965. The Astrodome was brand new at the time, having opened on April 9 of that year. I still remember the first time I entered its cavernous environs, which was to see a game between the Houston Oilers and the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1970. When I walked up the ramp and the field came into view, I was dumbstruck. There have been numerous proposals to renovate the dome but as of today, no improvements have been made.
texashighways.comTexas man shot after running over construction worker, stabbing another, police say
Houston police say officers shot and wounded a man when he charged at them with a knife after he killed a construction worker with the worker’s own stolen truck, crashed into the lobby of a high-rise and then stabbed someone else.