McLennan County Assistant District Attorney Tara Avants has been named the 2025 Baylor Young Lawyer of the Year.

McLennan County Assistant District Attorney Tara Avants was named the 2025 Baylor Young Lawyer of the Year on Friday. Dean ...

Tara Avants receives Baylor Law’s top young lawyer award for her success bringing offenders to justice and supporting ...

Caleb Avants has pleaded guilty to first-degree felony rape. The 27-year-old Shelby man committed the crimes in 2011 and 2012, prosecutors discovered. Both individuals were juveniles at the time ...

Avants was indicted in January. The man had been scheduled for trial next week, but on Monday chose instead to change his plea to guilty in exchange for an agreed-upon sentence of 9-13½ years in ...

Ernest Avants, 72, a reputed Ku Klux Klansman convicted last year in a 1966 murder that prosecutors say was part of a failed plot to assassinate the Rev.

Avants was indicted in January. The man had been scheduled for trial next week, but on Monday chose instead to change his plea to guilty in exchange for an agreed-upon sentence of 9-13½ years in ...