A pair of hefty sentences was affirmed last week by two Texas Courts of Appeals. The convictions of George Wayne Smith and Samuel DeWayne Colbert, both of Henderson County, were affirmed after both appealed their convictions.
Two men have been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
A Rusk County man has been arrested for the murder of his brother.
Brian Jerome Townsend, 24, of Mt. Enterprise was arrested for murdering his brother, Alonzo Lewis, 32.
A Texas woman faces a charge of murder after allegedly fatally stabbing a man with a stiletto heel at a luxury condominium early Sunday, Houston police said.
A Dallas man is being held in the Gregg County Jail on bonds totaling $41,000 after police say he evaded arrest and rammed his car into a police car — all while drunk.
