Inmate Terry Banks broke out of jail in Missouri, prison guard Lynette Barnett by his side. They disappeared for seven weeks - until the law caught up with them in a Victoria County, Texas, trailer park.
Relatives say Hollywood Cemetery sells the same plot over and over, stacks graves and buries people where they don t belong. And then forgets about them.
Galveston prosecutors say David Hisey stole more than $700,000 from his elderly parents, murdered them, then lived with their dead bodies. David says he did what his parents wanted.
Mark Fields, the flashy young head of Ford's Americas division, ran through the many woes of the auto industry before a group of mostly white-haired local car dealers who gathered for a luncheon yesterday at the Galleria Westin Hotel. There were the massive stock dips and job losses, the government takeover of his two biggest domestic rivals. National car sales, he said, have sunk to 1982 levels -- and there was an economic downturn even then. "Just makes you want to jump out of bed every m
It's said that at 3 a.m.
there are just a few basic types of people on the road: those leaving a bar,
those who are up to no good, and the cops who are trying to catch them both.
That seemed to be the situation early yesterday morning when a case of road rage turned
deadly.
Alfredo Vasquez and a group of his friend were driving home
from the El Chaparral Club near the intersection of 290 and 610 in a black Ford
F-150 when suddenly the driver of a white Ford F-150 was overcome by road rage
Laura Palacios of Houston died with her son at her side. Though it was hardly a comfort to the 51-year-old woman: It was her son who allegedly killed her.
That's the story told by Harris County Sheriff's homicide detectives who have charged Jose Palacios, 24, with murder. But he is not behind bars. Instead, he's believed to have fled south across the border into Mexico, eluding the relatively short arm of Texas law enforcement.
On August 3, detectives began investigating the death of a woma
