FORT BEND, TX - A Fort Bend County sheriff's deputy who was critically injured during a traffic wreck while on a emergency call late last month died this morning at the hospital. Deputy John Norsworthy died about 10:30 a.m. at Memorial Hermann Hospital, according to the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office. Funeral arrangements have not been made. Initial reports indicate another ...

DALLAS (AP) — Prosecutors declared a Texas man innocent of a rape and robbery that put him in prison for 30 years, more than any other DNA exoneree in Texas. DNA test results that came back barely a week after Cornelius Dupree Jr. was paroled in July excluded him as the person who attacked a Dallas woman in 1979, prosecutors said ...

ATLANTIC CITY — When a man brandished a gun at George Nelson during a home invasion Sunday, he did what his years as a city police officer would have warned against: He fought back. “If it had been anybody else, I would have told them, ‘Don’t fight, just give him whatever he wants to get him to leave,’” said the 80-year-old ...

[photo:586679] FAYETTE COUNTY - Fayette County investigators believe a missing 12-year-old girl was taken to Mexico by a 20-year-old man. Isabeth Yanez was last seen at home a week ago and was reported missing by her parents last Tuesday morning. On Monday, the Sheriff's Office said it believes Simon Quintana Guiterrez took Isabeth to a city near Acapulco. The Chevrolet Camaro ...

HOLMES COUNTY, Ohio — Buelah Mike was dealt a crushing blow in the new year. Her 46-year-old daughter, Deborah McVay was killed Sunday night and her 10-year-old grandson is charged with her death. "He's bad, but there's some good in him," she told Fox 8 News. McVay and two of her four children lived just a few feet from Mike's trailer ...

MANATEE, FL -- A Manatee County Sheriff’s Office sergeant was suspended without pay for almost 26 hours after he labeled a scripture passage in a Bible as “the Obama prayer” and left it on co-worker’s desk, according to a recently released internal affairs report. The highlighted scripture was Psalm 109, which reads in part, “Let his days be few, and let ...

LONGWOOD LANE, UK - Detectives have begun a Facebook campaign in a bid to catch the killer of Jo Yeates. Her body was found on Christmas Day, in Longwood Lane, Failand, eight days after she was reported missing from her home in Clifton, Bristol. The campaign involves an advert that will allow people to contact the incident room via the social ...

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - Police in Gwinnett County won’t be using laser guns to catch speeders on the roads—at least for now. The change came January 1 because of a disagreement among several government agencies. Officers say they’re making adjustments to the way they do their jobs. Radar and lasers are now no longer an option for police in Gwinnett County, ...

DETROIT - The number of homicides in Detroit in 2010 fell to its lowest level since 1967 -- the year of the infamous riot -- according to crime statistics from law enforcement and the Detroit Almanac. There were an unofficial 308 homicides in the city last year, Detroit police announced Monday, a decline of more than 15% from the 364 in ...