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Erik Ortiz
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A hearing Wednesday will determine whether Texas can proceed with a new execution date for Roberson, who would be the first put to death in the United States in a case of so-called shaken baby syndrome.
CENTER POINT, Texas — Local and state officials who responded to the catastrophic flooding this month in Central Texas defended their actions in an interview with NBC News, saying they did everything in their power to save lives and are now considering what more could be done to prevent future tragedies.“Our teams did everything that they possibly could with this gruesome, devastating situation that happened, and we would not change the way we did that.
Four days after the devastating flash floods in Texas Hill Country, local officials and law enforcement in Kerr County couldn’t provide basic details of the emergency response.
Officials in Texas Hill Country are starting to focus on alert systems like the one in Comfort as they search for answers on how the flash flooding swept away so many in Kerrville.
The killings of four University of Idaho students in November 2022 at an off-campus residence stunned the small community of Moscow, where investigators grappled with what the town's police chief would later describe as a "very complex" case.
Sean “Diddy” Combs, the onetime global hip-hop titan whose federal trial unveiled harrowing testimony accusing him of sexual abuse against women and forced drug-dazed “freak offs,” was acquitted Wednesday of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking but found guilty of lesser charges.
The suspect believed to have fatally shot two firefighters and wounded a third after having set a brush fire in Idaho spoke with responding firefighters before he opened fire, the sheriff said Monday
Federal prosecutors in New York rested their case Tuesday against Sean “Diddy” Combs, while the music mogul’s defense team offered no witnesses of its own, moving the sprawling racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking trial to a close sooner than expected
