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Woman shot with Taser dies after being arrested By Deanna Boyd Star-Telegram Staff Writer FORT WORTH - Police are investigating the death of a 35-year-old woman who stopped breathing while being booked into the Fort Worth Jail on Friday evening about an hour after she was shot with a Taser gun after, police say, she resisted arrest. Carolyn Daniels was pronounced dead at 7:39 p.m. Friday at Harris Methodist Fort Worth hospital about 90 minutes after her encounter with Fort Worth police. "According to initial accounts, the suspect was exhibiting signs of perhaps being on some type of drug other...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A Texas death row inmate avoided execution when the U.S. Supreme Court blocked his lethal injection that had been scheduled for Wednesday evening. Troy Kunkle, 38, was set to die for fatally shooting a Corpus Christi man during a robbery nearly 20 years ago when Kunkle was an 18-year-old high school student in San Antonio. The court, in a brief order delivered Wednesday morning, halted the punishment indefinitely. The reprieve came early enough in the day so Kunkle never was moved from death row at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit near Livingston. Executions...