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.
Assistant DA Mark Hasse was shot and killed Thursday morning near his work, at the North Texas county courthouse.