The debutante (from the French débuter, to begin) is a young woman, usually of age 17 or 18, who is formally introduced to affluent society at a ball or "coming out" party. The original purpose of the "debut" was to announce that young women of...

A debutante (or deb) (from the French débutante, "female beginner") is a young lady from an aristocratic or upper class family who has reached the age of maturity, and as a new adult, is introduced to society at a formal presentation known as her...

Jurors began deliberating Thursday in the murder trial of three men charged in the Christmas Eve shooting of a 19-year-old woman hours after she had been presented as a debutante.Michael Thorpe, 26, Webster Wilson, 25, and Kevin Huckabee, 21, killed Jennifer Ross for no reason...

Three men were convicted of murder Saturday in the death of a 19-year-old white debutante who was shot on the back during a mugging last Christmas Eve, sparking outrage among civic leaders who know her family.Michael Thorpe, 26, Webster Wilson, 25, and Kevin Huckabee, 21,...

The murder trial of three men charged in the Christmas Eve shooting of a 19-year-old debutante opened Thursday with two of her friends saying they weren't certain one of the men was an attacker."I was looking more at the gun than at him," Brett Finley,...

Linda Leyendecker Gutierrez lives and works a few blocks from the Rio Grande and traces her lineage in two branches _ from one of this Spanish colonial city's oldest families and to Revolutionary War orator Patrick Henry.And she says she has a God-given gift of...