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Two K9s officers have died in Laredo since this past summer. Both K9s Otto and Turbo died...

Frederick Datcher, Jr., 19, was arrested Thursday night following a vehicle pursuit which began in Young County and ended in Archer County by the Young County Sheriff’s Office.

On September 1st, Texas joins more than two dozen states that do not require a state permit to carry a handgun.

WATCH: Man Elbows Bailiff After Being Found Guilty of Capital Murder 28 Jul 2021 A man physically assaulted a bailiff inside a courtroom in San Antonio, Texas, on Monday moments after a jury found him guilty of capital murder for killing a San Antonio police detective in November 2016. Otis McKane, 30, violently elbowed Bexar County sheriff’s Deputy Isidro Gonzalez in the face as Gonzalez tried to handcuff McKane on July 26, according to video footage of the altercation captured by local ABC ...

In light of events unfolding at Orange Grove ISD, parents have been frustrated with communication and transparency in a bullying investigation. Here's what the law says is allowed.

Planned Parenthood Sues City in Texas for Declaring Itself ‘Sanctuary City for the Unborn’ Elura Nanos © Provided by Law & Crime Planned Parenthood filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against the city of Lubbock, Texas Monday, challenging the city’s recent ordinance declaring Lubbock a “sanctuary city for the unborn.” Lubbock voters passed the Ordinance Outlawing Abortion Within the City of Lubbock, Declaring Lubbock a Sanctuary City for the Unborn on May 1, with 62-p...

Shooting In Red Oak Leaves One Deceased, Suspect In Custody Sunday Shooting in Red Oak, One Male Deceased At approximately 3:24 pm on May 16, 2021, Officers of the Red Oak Police Department were dispatched to the area of 200 Buttercup Way, Red Oak, Ellis County, Texas, for a shooting. Upon arrival, Officers located a male subject, shot multiple times, lying in the roadway of the 200 block of Butter Cup Way. Officers secured the scene, with Red Oak Fire Rescue and AMR Ambulance crews responding...

A Houston man was arrested in Hunt County Wednesday and charged with human smuggling.

There have been crimes committed in the city of Amarillo and its surrounding areas so senseless and depraved that they are spoken of in only whispers. They were brutal enough to meet the criteria for Capital Murder charges; the evidence convincing enough for a jury to convict; and the danger to society real enough that a sentence of death by lethal injection was handed down. Texas has a long and controversial history its use of the death penalty. In order to pursue the death penalty, a crime m...

The late Botham Shem Jean, 26, and officer Amber Guyger, 30 (inset). | Facebook; Dallas Police Former Dallas County police officer Amber Guyger, who fatally shot beloved worship leader Botham Jean in his apartment in 2018, is seeking to have her murder conviction for his death overturned in favor of a lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide because she believed she was in her own apartment. A jury found Guyger guilty of murdering Jean and sentenced her to 10 years in prison in 2019. If s...