A teenage fugitive from Texas known for using an “affluenza” defence is to be returned to the US, along with his mother, after a mobile phone used to order a pizza gave away their location in Mexico.

A manhunt is under way for a wealthy Texas teenager, described at trial as being afflicted with “affluenza”, who apparently fled to avoid violating a probation deal that kept him out of prison for killing four in a drunken-driving crash.

A North Texas man has been freed more than two decades after he was wrongly convicted of raping a 14-year-old Fort Worth girl.

A paroled burglar who claimed he wanted to be a serial killer of minorities was executed in Huntsville, Texas, for the torture-murder eight years ago of a 19-year-old mentally impaired woman who once worked with him.

A TEXAS woman pleaded not guilty yesterday to murdering a homeless man by striking him with her car on her way home and leaving him to die lodged in the windshield after parking in her garage.