Italy News

John Davis, 84, missing since Monday, Nov. 9 was found in downtown Italy. The Williamson County Sheriffs Office, located near Austin, sent a teletype to the Ellis County Sheriffs Office informing them of a missing man in the area.

Police have made an arrested for the murder of a 20-year-old Dallas college student.

By ALAN PEPPARD / / The Dallas Morning News / apeppard@dallasnews.com apeppard@dallasnews.com Tuesday was Bruno Davaillon 's first official day as executive chef at the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek, but the Frenchman has been in the saddle for two weeks.

Don and Sherryl Bainbridge say their futuristic, dome-shaped home on 10 country acres has been called a golf ball, a giant pumpkin and a radar dome.

In a regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, Oct. 12, the Ellis County Commissioners' Court declared the week of Oct.

A Beretta handgun and ammunition were among the items found in the Hill County residence of a teenager accused of plotting a Dallas terror attacks, according to newly released documents.

The FBI had Hosam "Sam" Smadi under surveillance in the months before the Jordanian national was accused of trying to blow up a Dallas skyscraper, according to newly released court documents.

President Barack Obama today lauded the arrest of a Jordanian man accused of plotting to blow up a Dallas office tower, weighing in on the case for the first time.

A teenager from Jordan who is accused of trying to blow up a Dallas skyscraper returns to federal court Monday for a hearing to decide if there is enough evidence to move ahead with his prosecution.

Hosam Maher Husein Smadi appeared in federal court Friday, where a magistrate appointed an attorney for the skyscraper bomb plot suspect after he said he understood the charge against him.

It has been five days since the arrest of Hosam Smadi on charges of plotting to use weapons of mass destruction at the Fountain Place tower in Downtown Dallas.

Share + Sep 29, 2009 9:59 pm US/Central Reporting Jay Gormley FORT WORTH From his home in Jordan, Maher Smadi scanned over a Fort Worth Star-Telegram after giving his first interview to American television.

By MELODY MCDONALD and BILL MILLER The Jordanian teenager accused of trying to blow up a Dallas skyscraper built a life so typically American that friends and acquaintances are still struggling to understand how he could have secretly plotted a terror attack.

The wife of bomb-plot suspect Hosam Smadi says that though she still loves him, she doesn't understand how he might have considered harming innocent people.

Share + Sep 29, 2009 6:24 pm US/Central Reporting Stephanie Lucero ITALY While undercover FBI agents conversed with attempted bombing suspect Hosem Smadi during their six-month undercover investigation, Smadi was living in an energy efficient dome-style apartment in Italy, Texas.

Just days before he allegedly tried and failed to blow up a Dallas skyscraper, Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was arrested in Ellis County.

News 8 has learned the man accused in an attempt to blow up a downtown Dallas skyscraper was married to a woman in Italy, Texas last year.

A former roommate of a failed bomb plot suspect says his friend was lonely and suicidal in recent months in Texas.

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press Writer ITALY, Texas - To his friends in this small Texas town, 19-year-old Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was known as "Sam" - a kind, fun-loving guy who enjoyed dancing to techno music.

Share + Sep 26, 2009 6:41 pm US/Central By Selena Hernandez ITALY 19-year old suspected terrorist Hosam Smadi sits in a federal prison in Seagoville, charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction.