The cold case slaying of a 12-year-old girl in Texas more than four decades ago was solved after authorities used an advanced DNA tool to identify her killer, authorities said Monday. Gerald Dwight ...

CONROE, Texas — A new technology for finding DNA has helped detectives identify an executed death row inmate as the killer of a 12-year-old girl slain in Texas in 1979. Lesia Michell Jackson vanished ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The current quorum break by Texas Democrats at the State Capitol is the fourth time in the past 50 years that lawmakers have broken quorum to protest pending legislation: 1979, 2003 ...

Nobody could have known it at the time, but the 1979 season was the first in a long series bad ones for Texas Tech football. The 1979 season was arguably the point at which Texas Tech's offense ...

CONROE, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a man executed more than two decades ago has been identified through DNA testing as the person who killed a Texas girl in 1979. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s ...

Jeff Ontiveros, who set home run records at Texas and still holds the mark for games played in a Longhorns uniform, died this week, the school acknowledged Saturday. A tweet from the Texas baseball ...

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DNA testing has linked the cold case 1979 murder of Lesia Michell Jackson, 12, of Conroe, Texas, to convicted killer Gerald Dwight Casey, right, who was executed in 2002 for the 1989 robbery and ...