A 41-year-old man accused of dismembering and burning three bodies in a Fort Worth dumpster last year has been indicted on charges of murder and arson in a separate slaying. A Tarrant County grand jury handed up the indictment Friday against Jason Alan Thornburg in the killing of his roommate, 61-year-old Mark Jewell, whose body was found by firefighters after a gas explosion at their Fort Worth home in May. Thornburg’s attorney could not immediately be reached for comment. Thornburg admitted to cutting Jewell’s throat, uncapping a natural-gas line and lighting a candle, according to an arrest-warrant affidavit. Additional details about…
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A 5-year-old boy was hospitalized after being attacked by a dog while on his way home from school in Far North Dallas on Thursday afternoon. The boy was heading home about 3:15 p.m. in the 3400 block of Timberglen Road, near Frankford Road and Kelly Boulevard, when a dog got out of a nearby apartment and bit him, police said. The boy was taken to a hospital with serious injuries Thursday evening, police said. City Council Member Cara Mendelsohn, whose district includes the site of the attack, wrote on Twitter that the boy made it out of surgery about 1…
Frank H. McKnight, who shepherded circulation operations for more than 30 years — including through its contentious rivalry against the shuttered Dallas Times Herald — has died at 88. Known for his work ethic and devotion to his family, McKnight died in DeSoto on Jan. 27. A memorial service and celebration of life will be held Saturday. His son, Guy McKnight, 60, said he remembers how his father was a dedicated company man who treated his coworkers like family. He and his sister, Cindy Burton, 56, even called some of their father’s co-workers “uncle,” Guy McKnight said. In a 1994 story in The News…
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s top diplomat for North America is calling on the U.S. to do “a better job” of managing rising immigration by, in part, creating more legal pathways into the U.S. for migrants who otherwise face an increasingly perilous journey at the hands of organized crime. The number of migrants caught by U.S. Border Patrol hit a high of nearly 1.7 million in the last fiscal year — compared to about 400,000 the previous year when the pandemic started. In January, Border Patrol apprehensions nearly doubled to 147,000 from about 75,000 in the previous year. Authorities in the…
After 38 years, a suspect has been arrested in the slaying and sexual assault of a 21-year-old woman behind a Dallas warehouse. Edward Morgan, 60, was being held Friday in the Dallas County jail on a capital murder charge in the 1984 killing of Mary Jane Thompson. His bail had not been set Friday evening, and it was unclear whether he had an attorney. The Dallas County district attorney’s office, which announced the arrest, said the office’s cold-case team, Dallas police and the FBI collaborated on the case, using advanced DNA testing techniques like those that identified California’s notorious Golden State…
A 43-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the fatal beating of a man who was trying to stop an argument in north Oak Cliff, Dallas police say. Jose Ramirez Martinez faces a murder charge in the slaying of Graciano Alviso. It was unclear whether he had an attorney. Ramirez and Alviso were drinking with a group of people about 11:30 p.m. Sunday outside a home in the 1100 block of North Madison Avenue, near North Zang Boulevard and North Beckley Avenue. Ramirez began to argue with someone, according to an arrest-warrant affidavit, and Alviso told him to stop…
Police arrested an adult suspect connected to an apparent drive-by shooting Wednesday that wounded a child in Haltom City, police said Thursday morning. Jesus Vela-Alferez, 46, is charged with four counts of deadly conduct and one count of injury to a child, police said. It’s unclear whether he has an attorney. Officers were called about 3:15 p.m. Wednesday to the 3500 block of Eastridge Drive and found several cars and a home that had been hit by bullets, police said. A girl in the house was wounded and taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening. Police did…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — As college baseball season returns this weekend, a couple of Houston-area legends take center stage as first-time head coaches leading major programs. MLB great Jose Cruz Jr., out of Bellaire High School, takes over at his alma mater Rice University and tries to resurrect the proud program. Meanwhile Astros great and fellow Rice product Lance Berkman makes his debut as Houston Baptist University head coach. Get the inside story on “Three and Out” with Jonathan Bruce and Adam Winkler, plus why Astros fans should pay attention to the timeline in the MLB work stoppage and a…
SPRING, Texas — In the upcoming school year, bilingual pre-K students at Spring ISD will be learning English under a new program that trustees approved at their Feb. 8 board meeting. In a unanimous vote, trustees adopted the new “One Way Dual Language Bilingual” program, replacing the district’s old model. The program aims to help emergent bilingual, or EB, students, who are native Spanish speakers, to learn English more effectively. Eventually, more grade levels will become part of the program. Still, the program will begin with pre-K five students in August of the 2022-23 school year, according to the Feb.…
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A 19-year-old man was arrested and charged with murder in killing an 11-year-old boy. The child, Darius Dugas, was simply grabbing his coat from a car when he was shot in the chest and died earlier this month in northeast Harris County. Sheriff Ed Gonzalez announced on Friday that Daveyonne Howard has been charged for Darius’ murder. That same day, Darius’ family and friends said their final goodbyes. Howard is in the Harris County Jail on an unrelated charge. On Feb. 3, deputies responded to a shooting at about 7:40 p.m. at an apartment complex…
