Articles by Miguel Bustillo

Fear and foreboding gripped this still-mending city Thursday as a potential Category 3 hurricane whirled toward the Gulf Coast on the eve of Hurricane Katrina’s three-year anniversary. Read more

Lorenzo de la Torre Torres was on the cusp of death. Read more

The gunman who killed the chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party Wednesday was a Target employee who hours earlier had quit the discount retailer and scrawled graffiti on its walls. Read more

A gunman shot and fatally wounded the chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party at its Little Rock headquarters today. Read more

After a night of anxious pacing, when it seemed like Hurricane Dolly had decided to park and pelt them with rain, the Guevara family went to bed thinking the worst was over. Read more

Hurricane Dolly began hammering Texas’ southernmost tip this morning, lashing buildings with violent winds, triggering tornado warnings and leading officials to fear massive flooding and failed levees along the Rio Grande. Read more

A grand jury here today cleared a Pasadena, Texas, man in the shooting deaths of two suspected burglars as they left his neighbor’s house – a case that stirred a national debate over whether the man was a vigilante or a hero. Read more

The polygamist sect preached that Dan Fischer was a heretic who had turned his back on God’s chosen children. Read more

Ben Cromeens has 17 guns at home, 13 that he bought and another four he inherited from his dad. Read more