The Trump administration has moved to dismiss a lawsuit against Texas over a law that would allow local police to arrest ...

The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 in one of the the deadliest mass shootings ...

El Paso District Attorney James Montoya will not seek the death penalty against Patrick Crucius, the Walmart mass shooter.

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Operation Safe Shield, a Brazos Valley nonprofit dedicated to public safety is headed to the state capitol in Austin this ...

People in Maverick County spend months in jail waiting to be charged with minor crimes. Some are simply lost in the system ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officially has a new class of state troopers. On Friday, 138 new ...

A Wise County man pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for the murders of his wife and her ...

The bill from Houston-area Republican state Rep. Briscoe Cain isn't the first attempt to undermine local control in Austin.

The University of Texas System Police Department at Stephen F. Austin State University has received a $150,000 grant to fund ...

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from a death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the prosecutor's ...

Weatherford, would create a uniform statewide confidentiality policy for records of alleged misconduct by law enforcement officers that weren’t ...