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Paul Devoe is now serving his sentence on death row. Devoe was transferred from the Travis County jail to Huntsville Friday.

Leander Mayor John Cowman can legally vote for himself, the town's outside attorney wrote in an opinion released today, as a group of local mayors gather this afternoon to pick a member of the Capital Metro board.

Two people who told Travis County sheriff's deputies they had been drinking were charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle for joyriding on a backhoe loader Saturday night on the 19000 block of Packsaddle Road near Jonestown, according to an arrest affidavit filed Tuesday.

A Travis County jury has sentenced Paul Devoe to the death by lethal injection for the murders of 15-year-old Haylie Faulkner and 17-year-old Danielle Hensley.

Family members of Paul Devoe Jr. testified before a Travis County jury Wednesday as both the defense and prosecution begun wrapping up their cases in the capital murder trial.

In a phone call from jail after he was arrested and accused of killing six people in 2007, Paul Devoe predicted he would receive the death penalty and said, "I just wish I never had that gun." The Travis County jury in Devoe's capital murder trial heard a recording of the phone call between Devoe and Tiffany Waldrop on Thursday, the fourth and ...

Vincent Bellino of the U.S. Marshals Service testified that Paul Devoe's route was determined by tracking cell phone activity.

A Brookhaven native accused of killing six people in two states during 2007 before he was caught in Shirley did not testify before the defense rested in his Texas capital murder trial.

The son of one of the victims in a 2007 shooting spree took the stand Wednesday morning in the capital murder trial for the man prosecutors say is responsible.

Paul Devoe's lawyers are asking few questions. Ralph Barrera AMERICAN-STATESMAN Assistant District Attorney Gary Cobb, second from left, talks with family members of Mike Allred, one of six people whom Paul Devoe is accused of killing.

Day two of the capital murder trial of Paul Devoe is underway. After emotional testimony Monday, more witnesses were called to the stand Tuesday.

A man accused of killing five people in Central Texas is preparing to face a jury on Monday, in a fight for his life.

HARASSMENT: Brandon J. Wunderlich, 23, of 955 Tuck St. was charged after an incident at Sheetz convenience store, 195 Rocherty Road, at 12:23 a.m. Sunday, police said.

It was supposed to be Grade-A irony served on a Hollywood platter: A movie based on a well-known shipwreck blows past its original release date, gets saddled with the title of "most expensive movie ever made," and then sinks like the vessel it was named after.

Supervisor likens force to a posse. By Isadora Vail AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Monday, September 07, 2009 Some people dread hearing the unmistakable click of handcuffs, but for Hector Gomez and a group of law enforcement officials, that's the sound they wait to hear.

Jury selection began Friday in the capital murder trial of Paul Devoe. He is accused of going on a cross country killing spree in the summer of 2007.

Jury selection begins for a Central Texas Man -- accused of going on a cross-country killing spree.

Jury selection in the capital murder trial of Paul Devoe began with hundreds of people, multitudes of information packets, long lines and some fear of the unknown.

Share + Aug 27, 2009 8:19 am US/Eastern AUSTIN, Texas A Texas man accused in a 2007 killing spree that left six people dead has pleaded not guilty to a pair of the slayings.

The public, including members of the media, will not be allowed to attend the Friday start of jury selection in the capital murder trial of spree killing suspect Paul Devoe, state District Judge Brenda Kennedy said Monday.