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A former employee testifying Monday in the fraud trial of jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford told jurors he worked in an office in which unqualified people, including an executive's farm hand and preacher, were hired as financial analysts and where he was asked to alter financial figures.
A retired architect and military veteran told jurors at Texas financier R. Allen Stanford's fraud trial Friday that he lost nearly all of his life savings investing with Stanford, and has survived by eating "a lot of macaroni and cheese" and selling his possessions on eBay.
Texas and a subsidiary of health care giant Johnson & Johnson reached a $158 million settlement in a Medicaid fraud lawsuit Thursday, allowing the drugmaker to pay a fraction of the potential $1 billion in penalties and fines that state officials had initially sought.
A last-ditch attempt by attorneys for jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford to postpone his trial was unsuccessful. Stanford, charged with bilking investors out of $7 billion in a massive Ponzi scheme, goes on trial next week.
Houston police say two 10-year-old boys have been charged with sexually assaulting an 8-year-old boy on a school bus.
The National Weather Service says 2011 was Texas' driest year on record as well as its second hottest.
The first trials for some of more than a dozen men accused of taking part in a series of sexual assaults on an 11-year-old girl could take place in March, a prosecutor said Thursday.
Jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford is mentally competent to stand trial on charges he bilked investors out of $7 billion in a massive Ponzi scheme, a judge ruled Thursday
A court hearing on whether jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford is competent to stand trial was briefly delayed after attorneys told a judge that prison officials had concerns over whether Stanford is suicidal.
Medical experts for jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford continued making their case Wednesday that he is not competent to be tried next month on charges he bilked investors out of $7 billion in a massive Ponzi scheme.
Former Enron Corp. employee George Maddox, who lost his retirement savings when the energy giant collapsed, says he has been forced to spend his golden years making ends meet by mowing pastures and living in a run-down East Texas farmhouse.
A federal judge in Houston has ruled that authorities need a search warrant to obtain cellphone records that can be used to track a person's movements.
A Texas man accused of attempting to sneak out of the country with restricted U.S. military documents, money and equipment in order to join al-Qaida was convicted Monday of trying to help the terrorist organization.
A Texas man accused of trying to sneak out of the country with restricted U.S. military documents, money and equipment in order to join al-Qaida told a judge Monday that he wanted to leave because he disagrees with American foreign policy and that he never intended to hurt anyone.
The murder charge against an ailing 76-year-old woman who spent more than four decades on the run after being accused of killing her husband by dousing him with hot grease was dismissed Friday.
A judge has denied a Texas death row inmate's request for testing of DNA evidence his attorneys say could prove his innocence, less than a week before the man is set to be executed.
An elderly woman with an oxygen tank next to her sat in a Texas courtroom Friday after her four-decade run as a fugitive accused of murdering her husband by dousing him with hot grease came to an end.
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday filed a civil complaint against the owner of the rig that exploded last year in the Gulf of Mexico and led to a massive oil spill, accusing the company of refusing to honor subpoenas from a federal board investigating the accident.
When waves as high as 40 feet disabled the 94-foot research vessel Jeremy Parfait and nine other oil workers were on in the Gulf of Mexico last month, he knew there was only one place they could go — into the water.
At age 84, Elmer Pitchford knows time is running out for him to learn who killed his teenage daughter four decades ago in Houston.
Two oil workers who survived days floating on a life raft in the Gulf of Mexico after they evacuated their disabled vessel during a tropical storm have filed lawsuits claiming the workers were abandoned by another ship that could have taken them to safety.
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision this week to stop a Texas death row inmate's execution for a third time is likely part of a larger review by the high court of claims related to effective legal representation, legal experts said Wednesday.
The head of a Texas law enforcement group whose website was apparently taken over by the hacker group known as Anonymous said Friday that the association has taken the site down to evaluate its security.
A Houston woman got an abortion for her 12-year-old mentally disabled daughter in an effort to hide evidence that her son sexually assaulted the girl, authorities said.
A federal jury found a Department of Homeland Security pilot not guilty Friday of lying about his alleged role in the drowning of a would-be illegal immigrant swimming across the Rio Grande toward Texas, but couldn't reach a verdict on three other similar counts.
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