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A man who received a 60-year prison sentence last year from a Bowie County judge after falling on the floor during his plea hearing wants a second shot at justice. Gary Lamont Carson, 36, is serving time in a Texas prison for three counts of assault on a public servant and two counts of bail jumping and failure to appear.
A hot air balloon that went down in a fiery crash in a Texas pasture, killing all 16 people on board, likely struck a power line, an investigator said. NTSB official Robert Sumwalt said it was not clear if fire broke out before or after the balloon apparently touched electrical wires, NBC reported.
Police cars block access to the site where a hot air balloon crashed early Saturday, July 30, 2016, near Lockhart, Texas. At least 16 people were on board the balloon, which Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Luns... .
Authorities confirmed Sunday that 16 people were killed in the fiery crash of a hot air balloon in Central Texas, saying it will take "a long process" to identify the victims of the worst such disaster in U.S. history. Although the National Transportation Safety Board did not identify the company operating the balloon or its pilot involved in Saturday's crash, two officials familiar with the investigation said it was run by Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides .
A gunman attacked a gathering of young adults at a suburban Seattle home, killing two people at a fire pit before firing more shots from the roof, the grandmother of one of the witnesses said. Hundreds of young people lit candles and exchanged hugs in a high school parking lot as a small waterfront community north of Seattle mourned the loss of three people fatally shot at a party of young adults in an upscale... An Army medic charged in his wife's death will spend over two years in prison after being court-martialed for possessing child pornography and soliciting payment for sex.
At least 16 people died in the hot air balloon crash in Central Texas, the National Transportation Safety Board said Sunday, adding that investigators are still trying to determine the exact number of passengers and what caused the accident. It's apparently the worst such disaster in U.S. history, and one of the worst ever in the world.
A hot-air balloon carrying 16 people caught fire and crashed in central Texas on Saturday, federal officials said, and Texas authorities said there were no survivors. Saturday's crash happened about 7:40 a.m. in a pasture near Lockhart, about 30 miles south of Austin.
There was a time in the recent past when America did much to make it easier for people to vote. Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act to undo the vestiges and practices of voter suppression based on race and ethnicity.
Investigators surround the scene in a field near Lockhart, Texas where a hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people collided with power lines Saturday, July 30, 2016, causing what authorities described as a "significant loss of life." Investigators surround the scene in a field near Lockhart, Texas where a hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people collided with power lines Saturday, July 30, 2016, causing what authorities described as a "significant loss of life."
'It went up like a big fireball': witness heard popping sounds before hot air balloon crashed near power lines in Texas killing 16 The accident on a rural field in central Texas occurred about three years after 19 people, including nine Hongkongers, were killed in a hot-air balloon crash in Luxor, Egypt A hot air balloon burst into flames over central Texas after apparently striking power lines and plunged into a field, killing all 16 people aboard in one of the deadliest such accidents on record, police and eyewitnesses said. The Federal Aviation Administration said the fiery crash occurred at about 7:40 a.m. Saturday near Lockhart, a town about 50km south of Austin, the Texas capital.
Two officials familiar with the investigation into the crash in Texas of a hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people say it was operated by Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides. The hot air balloon caught fire and crashed in a pasture Saturday morning near Lockhart, which is about 30 miles south of Austin.
LOCKHART, Texas -- A hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people caught on fire and crashed in Central Texas on Saturday, causing what authorities described as a "significant loss of life." Erik Grosof with the National Transportation Safety Board would not provide an exact number of how many people died.
The head of Texas' delegation to the Democratic National Convention says party unity has been accomplished despite a high-profile dust-up earlier in the week. Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa said by phone Friday, "I was scared to death on Monday and everybody was."
For some people, the attack on police officers by a gunman in Dallas this summer brought to mind another attack by a sniper in Austin 50 years ago - on Aug. 1, 1966. That's when student Charles Whitman stuck his rifle over the edge of the clock tower at the University of Texas at Austin and started shooting.
The latest version of a booklet that Texas produces for women considering an abortion suggests medical connections between terminating pregnancies and heightened risks of breast cancer and depression. The new version of a booklet that Texas produces for women considering an abortion is being criticized for suggesting that terminating pregnancies can lead to heightened risks for breast cancer and depression.
Sen. Ted Cruz "freaked out" over news reports that Rep. JoaquA n Castro is eyeing a run against him in 2018, the Democrat said Thursday. "He freaked out," Castro told reporters at a Texas delegation breakfast meeting, when asked about a fundraising email Cruz's campaign sent after the Democrat publicly discussed a possible Senate bid .
A group of mothers of African-Americans killed by police or gun violence spoke somberly at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night, imploring the attentive crowd and a nation watching at home on TV, to remember their fallen children and insisting that they did not die in vain. Known as "Mothers of the Movement," this sisterhood of seven which held in common the singular tragedy of having lost their sons to cops or guns, bravely took the stage amid a standing ovation and chants of "Black Lives Matter."
The last of the three Louisiana law enforcement officers killed in an ambush near a busy highway in Baton Rouge is being buried Monday. Hundreds of law enforcement officers from around the country streamed past the casket Monday of a slain Baton Rouge police officer, some solemnly saluting and others making the sign of the cross as they paid their respects... Authorities say two people have been killed and more than a dozen shot at a nightclub in Fort Myers, Florida.
One week after Republicans sounded the gavel opening their gathering of party faithful, Democrats will do the same - even as they acknowledge familiar concerns regarding security, safety and a heightened state of tensions around the country. As much as the traditions of these political conventions are similar, we expect Democrats, at least publicly, to represent a more united front than Republicans did in Cleveland.
As Heidi Cruz left Cleveland's Quicken Loans arena after her husband, Ted, gave his stemwinder at the Republican National Convention, she was escorted by security through a hostile crowd. Apparently, people in the audience were annoyed that Cruz hadn't endorsed Donald “I Call Him Lyin' Ted” Trump.