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The funding aims to enhance the forensic laboratory and support public safety programs, including toxicology case outsourcing, overtime for crime scene and firearms investigators, specialized training and technology for firearms, training of new analysts, system upgrades, digital multimedia outsourcing, and temporary labor to reduce the backlog of cases in Harris County.

Texas lawmakers want tougher criminal penalties for possession of delta-8 and fentanyl. But that would mean much more work for the crime labs handling most of the drug testing for the state’s 254 counties.

SPRING BRANCH — When kids walk into the gas station near the high school in this rural stretch north of San Antonio, they come face to face with Texas’ booming

Police often can’t tell if a cannabis vape pen is derived from marijuana or legal hemp, but that doesn’t stop them from making felony arrests

In a Central Texas county, high schoolers are jailed on felony charges for vaping what could be legal hemp

In a Central Texas county, high schoolers are jailed on felony charges for vaping what could be legal hemp

Police often can’t tell if a cannabis vape pen is derived from marijuana or legal hemp, like the delta-8 products on display in gas stations across Texas.

Police often can’t tell if a cannabis vape pen is derived from marijuana or legal hemp, like the delta-8 products on display in gas stations across Texas. That doesn’t stop them from from making felony arrests in high schools.

A forensic expert and a Wichita Falls police officer told kids about the dangers of illegal drugs.

The Life Decisions Program is aiming to raise awareness of the deadly dangers of fentanyl.