Texas police have announced that skeletal remains discovered months ago in a septic tank belong to a woman that’s been missing for more than a decade, as reported by CBS4. KRGV reports that Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra said that DNA analysis confirmed the remains belonged to Leona Marie Tollett Johnson, who was reported missing in 2004. …
An 82-year-old Houston, Texas, woman has sued Red Lobster, accusing the restaurant of getting her so drunk that she fell in the parking lot and broke her hip, as reported by Inside Edition. The Houston Chronicle reports that Marlene Spencer filed the lawsuit last week, alleging that she was hospitalized for six days and underwent a …
A Texas man is facing manslaughter charges for reportedly fatally sucker punching an Air Force veteran over a slice of pizza, as reported by the Austin American-Statesman. Nathan Marshall, 28, (pictured left) is said to have admitted to assaulting Marques Johnson, 33, (pictured right) at 2 a.m. on September 17 near the Driskill Hotel. Johnson, who was …
A Waxahachie, Texas, man who sexually abused five children at his wife’s day care was sentenced to prison on Thursday. The Dallas Morning News reports that Dennis Ray Avery, 58, victimized the five children—all younger than 6—at his wife’s home-based day care over a two-year period. After pleading guilty to five counts of aggravated sexual assault of a …
An Austin woman was arrested on Thursday after she allegedly caused the death of her adult son with cerebral palsy after “severe neglect,” according to police. KXAN reports that authorities were called to a home off of Prince Drive in Austin on June 20 at around 10 p.m., after a young man with cerebral palsy, Edgar …
An Arlington, Texas, woman who included a young child in her explicit videos was sentenced to five years in prison on Wednesday. The Waxahachie Daily Light reports that Miranda Renea Kelso, 25, will serve two years in jail for indecency with a child by exposure and three years for indecency with a child. The two sentences will run …
A video reportedly shows a woman in the back of a police SUV slip off her handcuffs before allegedly taking Texas officers on a 23-minute high-speed chase. KTRE reports that the Lufkin Police Department released the footage on Tuesday. The video supposedly shows Toscha Fay Sponsler, 33, who was accused of shoplifting from Ulta and fleeing from …
Two Illinois men drove close to a thousand miles in an RV full of supplies for Hurricane Harvey victims in Texas when a Vidor officer demanded that they leave. A Facebook video posted by James Hartwell captured the incident on Saturday, when Jared Kirkendoll and Scott Green drove the large RV past an officer standing to …
A Texas mom passed away on Tuesday after trying to save her 3-year-old daughter during the massive flooding of Hurricane Harvey. USA Today reports that authorities found the unidentified woman inside a canal with an infant in Beaumont. Apparently, the woman’s vehicle got stuck while driving with her daughter along an I-10 service road. She pulled …
A family of six likely drowned in their van Sunday afternoon while trying to escape floods caused by Hurricane Harvey. Relatives told KHOU that four children, Daisy Saldivar, 6, Xavier Saldivar, 8, Dominic Saldivar, 14, Devy Saldivar, 16, and their great-grandparents, Manuel Saldivar, 84, and wife Belia Saldivar, 81, perished Sunday. Witnesses told the local station that the van …
Police have arrested a Houston, Texas, woman after she allegedly drove drunk and caused her 7-year-old son to be ejected from her vehicle last month, as reported by Click2Houston. Authorities report that Edith Abrego, 29, is facing murder charges following the crash which killed the child. In addition to Jody Rodriguez’ death, Abrego and her 6-year-old son …
A West Texas A&M University police officer is dead two weeks after being bit by a feral cat while on duty, as reported by Chron. Corporal Monty Dale Platt, 47, died Tuesday after having an adverse reaction to an anti-infection medication prescribed to him after suffering the bite. According to the Amarillo Globe-News, Platt was …
