Lake Forest, Illinois-based pharmaceutical firm Hospira Inc claimed in a statement that the company will not be able to guarantee that a US prison will not be able to obtain its drugs to be used for capital punishment despite the fact that it is objecting to its use, a report by The Associated Press said.
At least 14 people were hurt when a suspect went on a massive stabbing spree at the suburban Houston Lone Star College. The Harris County Sheriff's department confirmed at least 14 people were wounded, and four were taken by medical helicopter in critical condition. All wounds were consistent with stabbing.
The authorities in Texas have launched a massive manhunt, using helicopters and dogs in hopes of finding two inmates, who escaped from jail Tuesday morning. Brian Allen Tucker and John Martin King, who escaped from Hopkins County Jail in Sulphur Springs, Texas, at around 8:30 a.m.
A former Colorado inmate, Evan Ebel, who was a white supremacist gang member is now the focus of the investigation into who killed the state's prison chief Tom Clements.
Andre Murphy, a former Texas cop shot and murdered his his ex-wife Catina Lareese Murphy in her Desota home on Wednesday before turning the gun on himself in an apparent murder-suicide,
Texas carried its first execution of 2013 on Thursday in Huntsville, putting Carl Henry Blue to death for setting his then-girlfriend on fire almost 20 years ago. He died by lethal injection. In Georgia, Andrew Allen Cook was executed, convicted of fatally shooting two university students in 1995.
Two Texas firefighters were killed, and two other were seriously wounded, while trying to douse a heavy fire that that engulfed a Knights of Columbus lodge near College Station at about midnight, early Saturday morning.
