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After about a day and a half of deliberation, the jury in the Bart Whitaker trial sentenced Whitaker to death for planning the 2003 murders of his mother, Patricia, and brother, Kevin. There was no comment from Whitaker, who reportedly didn't change expression when the sentence was handed down; his father, who had said he opposed the death sentence for his son, called it God's will: "This was not the verdict that I would have wanted. I believe that the Lord is soverign so I am trusting that what happened today is his will," Kent Whitaker, who was also targeted in the murder plot, told reporters.

Sean Brown, one of two 18-year-old Sugar Land men charged with the murder of 16-year-old Ashton Glover, is in the Fort Bend County Jail under a $1 million bond. Brown waived his extradition rights in a Michigan court Monday, arrived in Fort Bend County on Wednesday and was arraigned yesterday.

Matthew R. McCombs, the teenager who said he shot 16-year-old Ashton Glover out of "morbid curiosity," appeared in a Fort Bend County court this morning and kept quiet while a judge set his bond at $1 million. According to KPRC, McCombs likely won't bond out of jail; KTRK reports he'll be held in the general jail population and won't be isolated.

Ah, there's nothing quite like dumb criminals. Take, for example, 18-year-old Leon Dagoberto Jr., who was arrested Monday night in connection with a graffiti spree — because he was wearing a T-shirt printed with the same patterns he had allegedly been painting on buildings in Rosenberg. A school official saw two Foster High School students wearing identical T-shirts stenciled with a distinctive design featuring a gas mask, a griffin, a self-portrait (of Dagoberto?) and...

A state parental notification law has reduced the number of abortions in Texas since it was enacted, a study finds Former Gov. Ann Richards has been diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus and will be treated at M.D. Anderson in Houston Police say Manuel Chicas, who crashed his car into a house in Missouri City and killed a couple sleeping there, tried to kill himself in the Fort Bend County Jail Researchers have found that...