HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate was set to be executed Tuesday evening for fatally shooting a 61-year-old grandmother at her North Texas home nearly a decade ago during an eight-day spate of crimes that included thefts and another killing. Mark Anthony Soliz, 37, faced lethal injection for the June 2010 slaying of Nancy […]
For 52 years Bishop Marvin Sapp has lived in, built a life, career and church, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Now, he’s preparing to move to Fort Worth, Texas. This Sunday, September 15, he’ll take over as the Senior Pastor of Chosen Vessel Cathedral. He says he decided to make this move because, “sometimes it’s just time […]
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas death row inmate is set to be executed Wednesday for fatally stabbing an 89-year-old woman and her daughter more than 16 years ago in their Fort Worth home. Billy Jack Crutsinger, 64, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Wednesday evening for the 2003 killings of Pearl Magouirk and […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart says it will discontinue the sale of handgun ammunition and also publicly request that customers refrain from openly carrying firearms in stores even where state laws allow it. The announcement comes just days after a mass shooting claimed seven lives in Odessa, Texas and follows two other back-to-back shootings last […]
A Black Central Texas man is suing American Airlines for allegedly kicking him off a flight so a dog could sit in first class. According to reports, Dana Holcomb is seeking damages from American and wants to change the overall discrimination policies of the airline. Holcomb was returning home after attending a birthday celebration in […]
A Texas man who record himself licking ice cream at a grocery store and putting the tub back now regrets the clout-chasing move. Walmart surveillance video captured 24-year-old D’Adrien Anderson recording the act at their Port Arthur, Texas, store. “Happy national soft ice cream day lmao #viral,” he captioned the video on his Facebook page, where he is known […]
HOUSTON (AP) — A young woman told jurors Tuesday that she begged her uncle “please don’t hurt us” and then began to pray before he fatally shot her parents and four siblings and shot her in the head in their suburban Houston home. Cassidy Stay testified at the trial of Ronald Lee Haskell, who is […]
A Texas mother admitted to forcing her healthy son to undergo numerous unneeded medical surgeries from 2009 to 2017. According to CBS 11, the medical abuse began when Kaylene Bowen-Wright’s son, Christopher, was just 11 days old. According to officials, Christopher unnecessarily visited the doctor 323 times over the course of eight years. By the time he […]
HOUSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court granted a stay of execution Wednesday to a Texas inmate just one day before he was scheduled to die for the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old woman during a carjacking in Houston. In an 18-page opinion filed Thursday, a three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit […]
Earlier this summer, Jaxson Turner, 12, set a goal to provide backpacks for at least 100 students in need. In June, Turner told NBC 5 , he wanted to fill each backpack with school supplies to help students start the school year off strong. Turner didn’t just reach his goal, he crushed it. The Dallas […]
Sex-trafficking victim Cyntoia Brown tied the knot with Christian hip-hop artist J. Long (born Jamie Long) while she was in prison serving 15 years of a life sentence. How the couple met remains unclear but we do know they have at least one thing in common, Long has also experienced life inside prison, as he was reportedly […]
Walmart is removing from its stores nationwide signs, displays or videos that depict violence following a mass shooting at an El Paso, Texas, store that killed 22 people. The retailer instructed employees in an internal memo to remove any marketing material, turn off or unplug video game consoles that show violent games — specifically Xbox […]
