Wharton News

A Houston judge has sentenced the transgender widow of a fallen firefighter to almost two months in jail after she pleaded guilty to theft involving a wristwatch.

When it comes to dividing up the family estate between brothers and sisters, any amount of civility goes unnoticed in playwright Horton Foote's last comedy/drama. In "Dividing the Estate" the three adult Gordon siblings who assemble at their childhood home, for a supposed dinner gathering headed by matriarch Stella Gordon , can bear witness to ... (more)

Nikki Araguz, the transgender widow of Wharton firefighter Thomas Araguz, killed in the line of duty in 2010, talks outside the Wharton County Courthouse during a break in the hearing to decide the fate of the firefighter's death benefits Friday, May 20, 2011, in Houston.

At the center of the comedy "Dividing the Estate" is a feuding family named the Gordons.

The transgender widow of a Wharton firefighter who is battling her dead husband's family over the legitimacy of the couple's marriage will spend the next 13 days behind bars.