Wendell Odom Sr., a longtime Texas jurist who served as a Court of Criminal Appeals and state District Court judge, died of a heart attack Feb. 5 in Lufkin. He was 84. Born June 14, 1920, in Apple ...

HOUSTON Investigators believe Odom, 22, was running to get his gun after getting into a scuffle with four teens who were trying to rob him and some of his friends. That's when one of the teens ...