By KERA News & Wire Services
Dallas, TX – Two confessed bank robbers are going to prison, while an accomplice named "Red" is still on the loose.
Federal prosecutors say, last spring, 23 year old Jeffrey Ewing and "Red" broke into the Ironstone Bank on Central Expressway before dawn. They disabled the alarm system and surveillance equipment, raided the vault, and got away in a car driven by 24 year old Clarence Hogg.
Dallas Police located them a short time later at a gas station. Ewing and Hogg were arrested. Red got away. The money was found in Hogg's car. He's going to prison for two years. Ewing got 3 years.
Prosecutors: DeLay sought power via funding scheme
Prosecutors say former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay took part in a scheme to illegally give corporate money in 2002 GOP legislative races to strengthen his power and political influence.
Opening statements began in DeLay's trial in Austin on charges of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
The ex-Houston-area congressman has denied wrongdoing.
Travis County prosecutor Beverly Mathews says DeLay and two associates illegally funneled $190,000 in corporate money, which had been collected by a group DeLay started, through the Washington-based Republican National Committee.
Under Texas law, corporate money cannot be directly used for political campaigns.
Attorneys for DeLay were to follow prosecutors with their own opening statements.
DeLay and his lead attorney, Dick DeGuerin, have said the charges were politically motivated. Prosecutors deny it.
Prison For Dallas Man Who Threatened President
A Dallas man who threatened the President's life on "craigslist" is going to prison for two years-three months.
43 year old Brian Dean Miller was sentenced today after pleading guilty to posting the threat on the "Rants & Raves" section of craigslist.
Miller said: It is time for Obama to die. I am dedicating my life to the death of Obama.
An Arlington citizen called the FBI, who tracked down Miller at his North Dallas home.
Former Fort Worth editor, TCU instructor dies
Phil Record, who worked for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for more than 40 years before teaching ethics at TCU, has died. He was 81.
Phil Record was the paper's associate executive editor when he retired in 1997.
Record's son, Greg Record, told the Star-Telegram his father suffered a heart attack Sunday evening while driving in Fort Worth. Phil Record was a professional-in-residence at the Schieffer School of Journalism at TCU, his son said.
Phil Record received awards for reporting, photography and headline writing during his 43-years at the paper.
He served in several capacities with the Fort Worth chapter of Society of Professional Journalist, and in other positions regionally and nationally. He was SPJ's national president in 1983-84.