Evidence frays in murder case
PARIS, Texas— Four months after a grand jury indicted two white men in connection with the dragging death of a black man in this racially troubled northeast Texas town, key...
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Mentally retarded Texas teen serving 100-year prison term for sex assault of boy
HOUSTON — The crime Aaron Hart confessed to was undeniably repellent. Last September, the 18-year-old man was charged with sexually assaulting a 6-year-old neighbor boy behind a tool shed in...
Most corrupt state: Louisiana ranked higher than Illinois
A couple of months ago, an obscure New Orleans tax assessor was ticketed for allegedly using flashing blue police lights illegally mounted on his car to weave his way through...
Race may be factor in police shooting of unarmed elderly man
HOMER, La.—On the last afternoon of his life, Bernard Monroe was hosting a cookout for family and friends in front of his dilapidated home on Adams Street in this small...
Highway robbery? Texas police seize black motorists’ cash, cars
TENAHA, Texas— You can drive into this dusty fleck of a town near the Texas-Louisiana border if you're African-American, but you might not be able to drive out of it—at...
Racism bedevils Texas town
HOUSTON — Only a few weeks ago, race relations had reached such a low point in the troubled east Texas town of Paris that federal Justice Department mediators were called...
Letter lands teen next to first lady at speech
I met Ty'Sheoma Bethea, the teenage girl invited by President Barack Obama to sit beside the first lady during his speech to Congress on Tuesday night, quite by accident a...
Letter from the heart lands teen in first lady’s box for tonight’s speech
HOUSTON—I met Ty'Sheoma Bethea, the teenage girl invited by President Barack Obama to sit beside the First Lady during his speech to Congress on Tuesday night, quite by accident a...
Racially-troubled Texas town rocked by new controversy
Only a few weeks ago, race relations had reached such a low point in the troubled east Texas town of Paris that federal Justice Department mediators were called in to...
Galveston, Texas, still struggling to recover, rebuild after hurricane
GALVESTON, Texas — This month's traditional Mardi Gras parades have begun, even though the revelers are marching past facades of buildings with nothing inside them. Entire neighborhoods once largely inhabited...