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.
