A 19-year-old man from Mexico said he did it. He took part in a smuggling run. That run killed two people in Laredo. Federal prosecutors say his name is Gerardo David Zarate Martinez. He rode along in an SUV. A driver sped away from police. The SUV crashed

A murder trial began this week in Jacksonville, Florida. The man on trial is accused of planning the ambush killing of a Microsoft manager. The state says the killing came from a bitter divorce fight. They say it was not a random attack. Mario Fernandez Saldana, 38, faces two charges.

A Raymondville man will spend 25 years in prison. He killed his husband. Bernabe Vanegas Jr. is 40 years old. He pleaded guilty this past Thursday. A Willacy County court gave him the sentence, court records show. His husband was 70-year-old Emmanuel Alexander Lagpacan. Police found him dead

A man from Mission is headed to prison for 30 years. He was sentenced this month for a fatal beating at a stash house. The news outlet myrgv.com first reported the sentence on August 17, 2026. Its full report could not be reviewed for this story, since the site

Genevieve Gallagher just wanted a fun day on the water. She went for a swim near Pensacola Beach, Florida. Her husband Dana and her 7 year old daughter Mila were with her. She had a small cut on her left leg. Three days later, she almost died. Gallagher is 49.

Luigi Mangione's murder trial in New York was set for September 8. Now it has no date at all. A judge put it on hold. His lawyers say he cannot be tried twice for the same crime. Mangione is 28 years old. He is accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare

A New Mexico teen will stand trial for allegedly killing his best friend's parents. Julio Zamora is 18 years old. He is from Clovis. He faces two counts of first-degree murder. That is the most serious murder charge in New Mexico. He also faces one count of

The government charged 199 people in South Texas in one week. That is almost 30 new cases a day. Of those 199 people, 188 have no legal papers to be here. The rest face charges tied to smuggling people over the border. The U.S. Attorney's Office announced

San Antonio police arrested a 13-year-old boy this week in a deadly shooting on the city's West Side. The boy now faces a capital murder charge. Police say he is tied to the death of Marcus Rene Nolf Estrada, 20. The shooting happened more than a

A 17-year-old boy was shot and killed at a school bus stop in Gaffney, South Carolina, on Wednesday morning. Police have now charged three people in his death. The boy was Jomiltron Sentell Fair Jr. Family and friends called him "June Bug." He was a student

Lindsay Clancy sobbed hard on Wednesday. The judge had to stop her murder trial. A doctor was talking about the injuries that killed her three young children. Clancy cried out "I can't do it." Staff wheeled her out of the courtroom. It was day 12 of

Brownsville police arrested a teen this week for a killing from 2023. He had hidden in Mexico for more than three years. Federal agents helped bring him back. Cameron County District Attorney Luis V. Saenz says the case started on Feb. 20, 2023. Brownsville police went to an apartment complex