Morton prevails in subpoena fight
Michael Morton, recently exonerated in the 1986 murder of his wife, on Wednesday won the latest legal battle in his attempt to question his prosecutors about allegedly hidden trial evidence. The Texas...
View ArticleProsecutors want prison time for driver convicted of killing two at bus stop
Update 3:55 p.m. Octavio Vega wept on the witness stand this afternoon when he told a Travis County jury how he and his children have been torn apart by the loss of his wife, who died after she was...
View ArticleSteroids dealer with plan to kill sentenced to five years in prison
A federal judge today sentenced a steroids dealer who said he had a plan to kill police officers to five years and one month in prison on federal drug and guns charges. U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks...
View ArticleDriver gets probation in death of two women at bus stop
Updated 2:15 p.m. A Travis County jury this afternoon sentenced Erick Nuncio-Moreno, who has been convicted of two counts of manslaughter, to probation for killing two women by crashing his car into a...
View ArticleTrial begins in 1981 murder case
A man serving a life sentence for shooting a Travis County sheriff’s deputy 30 years ago went on trial again today, charged with murder in the death of an Austin man fatally shot during the same crime...
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Laura Hall denied parole
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied parole to Laura Ashley Hall, who is serving a 10-year sentence for evidence tampering in the 2005 West Campus murder and mutilation of 21-year-old...
View ArticleBarton gets 17 years in $75 million Ponzi scheme
This story has been supplemented since it was originally filed with comments from U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks. A federal judge in Austin today sentenced Kurt Barton to 17 years in prison for running...
View ArticleTravis County jury finds man guilty of 1981 murder
A Travis County jury today convicted Rickey Ellison of murder for fatally shooting an Austin man during a 1981 crime spree that also left another woman dead and a Travis County sheriff’s deputy...
View ArticleFormer Austin cop pleads guilty in window peeping case
A former Austin police officer has pleaded guilty to official oppression and has been sentenced to two years deferred adjudication, a form of probation, related to allegations that he peeped in a...
View ArticleFormer UT police officer accused of misusing information
A Travis County grand jury has indicted a former University of Texas police officer on three counts of misuse of official information, accusing him of improperly accessing state computer databases to...
View ArticleMore serious charges filed against Abdo
A federal grand jury today approved more serious charges against an AWOL soldier whom prosecutors said was planning to detonate a bomb at a restaurant frequented by Fort Hood soldiers in Killeen,...
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Suspect in Christine Morton murder booked into Williamson County Jail
Updated, 4:30 p.m.: GEORGETOWN — The suspect in the Morton slaying, Mark Alan Norwood, was arrested today at his home in Bastrop, officials said at a news conference this afternoon. Authorities said he...
View ArticleMorton murder suspect identified
The suspect arrested in the Christine Morton’s 1986 murder has been identified as Mark Alan Norwood, 57, who public records show lived near the scene of a related Austin murder in 1988. Norwood lived...
View ArticleAccused serial tire puncturer gets 10 years in prison
Update 3:35 p.m. A Travis County jury has assessed a 10-year prison sentence to a homeless man prosecutors believe punctured hundreds of tires over the past several years in the Hyde Park neighborhood...
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Morton attacker described as 'big monster with big moustache'
UPDATED at 3:45 p.m. with information about the check made out to victim Christine Morton. The transcript of a taped police interview conducted 11 days after Christine Morton’s 1986 murder includes an...
View ArticleAnderson apologizes for 'system's failures'
UPDATED at 5:45 p.m. Ken Anderson apologized for the system’s failure but said that “in my heart” he did not believe he acted improperly in prosecuting Michael Morton for a murder he did not commit....
View ArticleCounty dedicates $3.4 million substance abuse rehab building
Travis County officials today dedicated a new $3.4 million building in Del Valle that will expand the capacity of the inpatient substance abuse rehabilitation program run by the adult probation...
View ArticleLawyer clarifies message from Morton
A lawyer for Judge Ken Anderson, Mark Dietz, called today to clarify a point in this morning’s story about Anderson’s press conference and apology to Michael Morton. The story refers to a note from...
View ArticleMan who shot sheriff's deputy gets another life term
A man serving a life sentence for shooting a Travis County sheriff’s deputy 30 years ago received a second life term today for shooting a man during the same crime spree in 1981. The new sentence,...
View ArticleRelease of Anderson deposition delayed
Ken Anderson’s deposition - in which the former Williamson County district attorney answers questions from Michael Morton’s lawyers - will not be released until next week. A transcript of the...
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