"He has been a complete perfect prisoner at TDC," added defense attorney Robert K. Loper. "Now, he does have the case where he had to defend himself on Death Row and kill a man with a pork chop bone."
Authorities have identified a 25-year-old Houston man who fell to his death while horsing around on an escalator at Reliant Stadium while attending the Texans preseason finale Thursday.
A Hurst resident in his 80s has died of a West Nile-related illness, the fifth Tarrant County death caused by the virus this year, public health officials announced Thursday.
The first casualties of Hurricane Isaac in Louisiana were found today in Plaquemines Parish. The man and woman in their mid 40s were floating in a kitchen, according to Parish President Billy Nungesser.
A teenager headed to a Sweet 16 party was killed after he stuck his head out of the emergency hatch of a double-decker bus and hit the underside of a highway overpass, police said.
A simple break in the skin can cause the kind of rare, body-ravaging infection that claimed the life of a Spring boy last month while he vacationed in California.
An attempt by a member of the military to scare the hiccups out of the system of a fellow soldier from Ft. Hood in Texas has left one man dead and the other in jail on manslaughter charges, authorities said Wednesday.
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating the death of a Bumble Bee seafood worker who was apparently cooked to death in an industrial oven at the company's processing plant in Santa Fe Springs last week.
Police say a costumed 9-year-old girl was accidentally shot outside a western Pennsylvania home during a Halloween party by a relative who thought she was a skunk.
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A woman struck a man in the eye with a high-heeled shoe amid a large melee in a strip club dressing room Friday night, according to an arrest affidavit.
Eleven Rice University students who attended the annual student-organized "Night of Decadence" were treated for alcohol poisoning early Sunday morning.
More than 1,200 people attended the event that includes alcohol served to those of legal drinking age and was approved by the university under its policies. The party is hosted by Wiess College dormitory and has been a tradition since 1972.
A zoo where a 2-year-old boy fell into an exhibit and was fatally mauled by African wild dogs had met or exceeded all safety standards for animals and visitors, proving that no exhibit is "fail-proof," the zoo's president said Monday.
A Florida man who collapsed after winning a bug-eating contest accidentally choked to death on the cockroaches he gobbled down, the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office announced Monday.
