TARRANT COUNTY — The Tarrant County District Attorney is dropping a murder charge against a former police officer. Former ...

His investigative instincts led to the arrest of someone who could have potentially caused great harm,” Sheriff Bill Waybourn said.

Four of those death sentences came from North Texas counties, including three — Thornburg’s among them — from Tarrant County. “We don’t often ask,” Phil Sorrells, a former judge who ...