A murder case in Miller County is on hold while a mental evaluation of the defendant is pending, per the Texarkana Gazette. Joseph Preston Richardson III, 24, faces a first-degree murder charge in the fatal May 22 shooting of Clay Walker. He is presumed innocent unless...
A painting of ragtime composer Scott Joplin at his Texarkana school is part of a new show at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, per the Texarkana Gazette. “Scott Joplin at Orr School,” painted in 2020 by Henry Fort II, is among the works...
A Lubbock company has developed a device meant to stop crude oil thieves by locking down the valve on a producer’s load line, according to the Midland Reporter-Telegram. The product, OilGuard, from RIOT Industrial, limits who can open the load line valve to people the producer...
According to the Midland Police Department, police are looking into a gunpoint robbery reported the night of Saturday, Nov. 7, in the 2500 block of Commerce Drive. Officers went to the area around 9:28 p.m. When the man called for help, he told dispatchers he had...
Gunfire from a drive-by shooting early Saturday, Nov. 7, hit a home in the 1400 block of South Fort Worth Street in Midland and narrowly missed two of the eight people inside, according to the Midland Police Department. The shooting happened around 4:05 a.m. Police said...
Texas executed John Allen Rubio, 46, by lethal injection Thursday evening at the state prison in Huntsville for the 2003 killings of three young children in Brownsville, according to the Brownsville Herald. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said he died at 6:47 p.m. Rubio and...
Three people received a combined 39.5 years in prison Nov. 10 from a federal judge in Del Rio for a gun-trafficking scheme that involved repeated trips into Mexico through Laredo, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas. Chief U.S. District Judge...
