On Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at approximately 9 a.m., a Correctional Officer at the Telford Unit in New Boston, Texas, was allegedly physically assaulted by an offender as he was leading him back to his cell from the dayroom. Forty-seven-year-old Timothy Davison suffered serious injuries and was transported to Christus St. Michael’s Health System in Texarkana, Texas, where he later died.
Up until now, if an inmate in a Texas prison wanted to get married, someone else had to stand in for the prisoner during a ceremony held somewhere outside the prison. That's about to change.
Shannon Richardson, a 36-year-old actress from Texas, was given the maximum sentence of 18 years in jail under her plea deal on a charge of possessing and producing a biological toxin. She has also been ordered to pay $367,000 in restitution.
James Holmes, the 24-year-old former graduate student suspected of opening fire at a Colorado movie theater’s midnight showing of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ early Friday, is due in court Monday for an initial advisement.