AUSTIN -- After 25 years in prison, the battle Michael Morton began in the big house continues in the state house. "It's been about three and a half years now since I've been out," Morton recalled ...

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While Keith Morton has served as Fountain Inn Police Chief for the past 23 years, his career in law enforcement began over 40 years ago. At the August meeting of Fountain Inn City Council, Morton was ...

Michael Morton served 25 years in prison before DNA testing proved that he didn’t kill his wife. Post-conviction DNA testing has led to the exoneration of 52 Texans since 1989 and helped to identify ...

McLennan County authorities dealt this week for the first time with the legal ramifications of a new law named for a Williamson County man exonerated after serving almost 25 years in prison for a ...

Police investigated the brutal killing of Christine Morton in 1986. They arrested her husband, Michael Morton. A grand jury indicted Michael Morton. A jury of his peers convicted him. But he was not ...

Carroll County voters have until June 2 to get their mail-in ballot post-marked and have their voices heard in a presidential primary election that includes three candidates vying for the seat on the ...

Dean Morton was sued for investment fraud lawsuit on Oct. 14 in Kansas 10th Judicial District Court for Johnson County over allegations of operating an unlicensed investment scheme. The suit, brought ...

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