In U.S. v Estate of Whittemore (U.S. District for Massachusetts, Dec. 16, 2025), the decedent’s income tax liabilities and wife survived him. John Whittemore and his wife, Carlene, had filed joint ...

Houston — A Texas man who at one time escaped from custody and was on the run for three days after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend nearly 27 years ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state lawmakers are considering new legislation to close a legal loophole that has allowed strangers to take control of estates, sell homes and pocket millions of dollars ...

House Bill 2445 would curb ‘probates for profit’ by tightening court appointment rules. Reforms limit repeat appointees, bars recent felons and mandates local venue. Bill requires heir notice within ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A reverse mortgage on a home with substantial repair costs and an unwanted squatter complicates estate settlement ...

Nearly 70 years after the state of Texas put him to death, Dallas County officials formally exonerated Tommy Lee Walker, a 21-year-old Black man executed two years after being wrongfully convicted of ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man who once escaped custody and spent three days on the run after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend was put to death ...

History in Dallas was made on Wednesday as county leaders officially acknowledged that a man convicted and sentenced to death for a murder 70 years ago was innocent. Dallas County commissioners passed ...

STARKE, Fla. — A man convicted of fatally shooting two people outside a Florida bar in 1993 as part of an attempted revenge killing was executed Tuesday evening, the 26th person put to death in the ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas -- A Texas man who at one time escaped from custody and was on the run for three days after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend ...

Jan. 28 (UPI) --Texas on Wednesday evening conducted the United States' first execution of the year, putting a 55-year-old man to death for the 1998 double murder of his ex-girlfriend and her new ...

Dallas County commissioners voted unanimously to declare innocent a Black teenager convicted of rape and murder in 1954. District Attorney John Creuzot, at times dabbing his tears, led the argument ...