Missouri race ended early as people overheated. KMBC reports
Arkansas recorded its first heat-related fatality from the blazing temperatures that have hung over the central United States for weeks, now blamed for dozens of deaths across the region.
Nearly 35 years after a Texas judge sentenced him to death, Ronald Chambers was found dead Monday morning on the floor of his cell.
Dallas, Texas, police are seeking criminal charges against three officers in the videotaped beating of a motorcyclist after a chase.
Police have added a second charge of capital murder against an Irving, Texas, woman who allegedly told a 911 operator that she strangled her two young children because they were autistic, a spokeswoman for the district attorney said Friday.
Police say Saiqa Akhter, mother of two, called 911 to tell them she killed both her children. WFAA reports.
An Irving, Texas, woman told a 911 operator that she strangled her two young children Monday because they were autistic, according to a recording of the call.
Financial troubles and despair over her husband's death were weighing heavily on the mayor of a Texas city who apparently killed herself and her daughter last week, her close friend told CNN.
Police in a Dallas, Texas, suburb indicated Wednesday that the town's mayor likely killed her daughter before turning the weapon on herself.
Selma diner
updated: Sun May 17 2009 12:27:00
CNN's John King talks to some Alabama residents about their economic troubles.
To cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge into Selma is to share a stage with history. And these days, it is to come face-to-face with a bleak present.
An air-supported roof over the Dallas Cowboys' practice field collapsed during a heavy thunderstorm Saturday afternoon, leaving 12 people injured, authorities said.
The roof of a Dallas Cowboys practice facility collapsed during a storm.
A man sent to prison more than 15 years ago has been freed after DNA testing concluded he was innocent
Wiley Fountain is homeless just five years after he walked out of prison an innocent man. He is one of the 17 men wrongfully convicted in Dallas County, Texas, then cleared by DNA evidence.
Cleared by DNA after 27 years in prison, James Woodard starts over. Ed Lavandera reports.
CNN's Ed Lavandera reports Dallas leads the nation in DNA exonerations and now the the D.A. wants prosecutors punished.
James Woodard is slowly returning to life. He is starting over after spending 27 years behind bars. He was wrongly imprisoned and cleared by DNA.
CNN's Kyra Phillips talks to a wrongly convicted rapist who was freed on DNA evidence after spending 26 years in prison.
Justin Randall began to wonder if he had picked the wrong day to drive his convertible through downtown Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday, as debris rained down from an explosion at a facility that sells acetylene gas.
Investigators want criminally negligent homicide charges brought against the driver of a bus that caught fire and exploded outside Dallas, killing 23 nursing home patients who were fleeing Hurricane Rita, a sheriff's spokesman said Monday.
There are a lot of mundane matters in a $2.7 billion fraud trial: contractual adjustments, weekly revenue reports, capital expenditure accounting, that sort of thing. But the Southern-fried trial o...
A man apparently upset over his share of a family inheritance shot and killed his sister and brother-in-law and then killed himself, authorities said.
Money Magazine: THE MUNI ZERO ADVANTAGEupdated: Sat Nov 01 1986 00:01:00
If you go along with the forecast that in a year or so interest rates will be lower than they are now, think bonds: not just any bond, but zero-coupon bonds and not just any zeros but tax-exempt mu...