Texas NewsLocal, regional, and statewide news continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.Pharr man found in car trunk in Mexico identified- July 1, 2008 A Mexican police official said a Texas man has been found beaten to death in the trunk of a car in a Mexican border town. Tamaulipas chief homicide investigator Fernando Miranda said Ramiro Torres Hernandez, 25, was found dead Friday on a back road in Reynosa. Officials said on Monday that Torres was a resident of Pharr, but it was unclear if he was a U.S. citizen. He was identified by a sister who lives in Mexico. The Tamaulipas investigator said a cousin told police he was with Torres at a...http://www.topix.net/state/tx/2008/07/pharr-man-found-in-car-trunk-in-mexico-identified?fr... Hailed in China, lawyer wanted in U.S. on fraud charges- July 1, 2008 In the central Chinese province of Hubei, the tall American retiree was known as an environmental activist to his admiring neighbors. A retired lawyer from Houston, Kenneth Lee Rothey's campaigns to clean trash from city streets attracted many volunteers. It was a heartwarming story told on state TV and Internet blogs of an American doing good in China. He even earned a nickname, ''the foreign Lei Feng," a reference to a fervent party supporter honored by former Communist leader Mao Zedong. But.http://www.topix.net/state/tx/2008/07/hailed-in-china-lawyer-wanted-in-u-s-on-fraud-charge... Grand jury clears man who killed burglars- July 1, 2008 A suburban Houston homeowner was cleared by a grand jury Monday for fatally shooting two men he suspected of burglarizing his neighbor's home. Joe Horn, 62, shot the men in November after he saw them crawling out the windows of a neighbor's house in the Houston suburb of Pasadena, carrying bags of the neighbor's possessions. Mr. Horn, a retired grandfather, called 911 and told the dispatcher he had a shotgun and was going to kill them. The dispatcher pleaded with him not to go outside, but...http://www.topix.net/state/tx/2008/07/grand-jury-clears-man-who-killed-burglars?fromrss=1 |