NutJob:Rocker Ted Nugent slams ‘brain-dead’ liberals and calls himself ‘perfect human being”
Right-wing rock musician Ted Nugent has found himself once again at the centre of a firestorm after he unleashed an obscenity-filled diatribe during his first interview since his fiery outburst over President Obama. On Friday, Nugent met with ’CBS This Morning’ journalist Jeff Glor at his Texas ranch to discuss the ‘dead serious’ but cordial meeting with [...]
Woman, 41, ‘had sexual relationship with sick friend’s son, 13, while she was in hospital’
A 41-year-old woman is facing arrest for allegedly having a sexual relationship with boy that began when he was just 13-years-old. Karen Lee Carstens volunteered to help babysit the teen while her friend, the boy’s mother, was hospitalized. Police said she began sexual assaulting the teen when he was 13 years old and eventually ended [...]
‘Drunk’ woman slams into police Blood Alcohol Testing van
A 25-year-old driver was far from subtle when she was driving while intoxicated in Southeast Texas. Calli Dretke slammed into the police truck that is used to test drivers’ drunkenness, injuring a police officer and earner herself a charge of felony intoxication assault. The incident happened around 2am Sunday morning when police officers pulled over [...]
TSA agent faces up to 10 years in jail after stealing eight iPads from the bags he’s supposed to be inspecting
A baggage handler has been charged with theft by a public servant after he stole tablet computers from the luggage he was tasked with checking for security threats. Clayton Keith Dovel, 36, of Bedford, Texas, was busted in February after he was found to have eight iPads believed to have been stolen from passengers. Police [...]
Woman found semi-conscious in woods where she hid for two days with her daughters to escape abusive husband
A ‘courageous’ mother-of-three beaten by her husband hid out in the woods with her two young daughters to escape a seven-year cycle of abuse. Lisa Holden, 27, was found in late March by a passerby by the side of the County Road 4512 in east Texas, where she had been for two days, drifting in [...]
Tina Madrid Charged In Death Of Malnourished Son: Jonathan Singer, 10, Found In Cardboard Box
TEXAS CITY, Texas — A Houston-area woman has been charged in the death of her 10-year-old son whose body was found in a cardboard box a year ago. Jonathan had cerebral palsy and could not care for himself. Authorities said he was neglected and weighed only about 35 to 40 pounds. Prosecutors said Jonathan’s father, [...]
Kimberly Saenz, Ex-Nurse Gets Life In Prison For Killing 5 With Bleach
LUFKIN, Texas — A former Texas nurse convicted of killing five dialysis patients by injecting them with bleach should spend the rest of her life in prison with no chance of parole, jurors who earlier convicted the woman of capital murder said Monday. Kimberly Saenz was convicted Friday of killing the patients at a clinic [...]
Boy, 11, ‘starved to death in locked bedroom by father and stepmother before they dumped his body in storm shelter’
A boy was slowly starved to death by his parents as a punishment for bad behaviour, police have said. Johnathan Ramsey, 11, had not been seen for at least nine months after allegedly being locked in his bedroom by his father and stepmother and restricted to a diet of bread and water. According to police, [...]
Grandmother, 71, charged with anti-gay hate crime for beating neighbor, 25, with her cane (because she feared he would kill her son with AIDS)
A 71-year-old Texas grandmother has been charged with attacking her gay neighbor with her wooden cane while shouting homophobic insults. Wanda Derby allegedly beat Lloyd Guerrero, 25, around his neck and torso following days of posting offensive statements about him on Facebook and claims that he was dying from AIDS. The elderly woman is also [...]
Texas trucker pleads guilty to killing Seattle couple
A Texas trucker who kept a torture dungeon in the cab of his long-haul rig has avoided the death penalty by accepting life prison sentences for murdering a hitchhiking Seattle couple two decades ago. Robert Ben Rhoades, who already is serving a life sentence for killing a 14-year-old girl in Illinois, pleaded guilty to [...]
Passengers Restrain Captain After Crisis on JetBlue Flight
HOUSTON — The captain of a JetBlue flight from New York to Las Vegas suffered a bizarre midair breakdown on Tuesday morning, forcing passengers to restrain him as the plane made an emergency landing in Amarillo, Tex., where he was removed from the aircraft and hospitalized. Passengers said the captain of Flight 191 was acting [...]
Man leaves babies in back of boiling car for an hour while he goes shopping for GUNS
Two children were found screaming in a baking car after their father left them in the car park while he went shopping for guns. The five-month-old boy and 18-month-old girl were left in the car at midday as the outside temperature soared into the mid 70s (around 24C). Temperature inside the car were likely to [...]