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By Jessica Pishko for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.Broadcast version by Roz Brown for Texas News Service reporting for the Pulitzer Center-Public News Service Collaboration. Last summer, the sheriff of Coryell County in Central Texas took to an elevated platform in a small Las Vegas ballroom and made an unusual announcement: He was a “born-again sheriff,” he said, having “realized that I wasn’t doing my job 100%.” Sheriff Scott Williams runs a 92-bed jail and provides security for the courthouse in Gatesville. He oversees around two...

Some 50 Texas sheriffs and numerous elected officials have attended trainings on the unsupported notion that sheriffs can single-handedly overrule state and federal law. The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement is now investigating.

Bosque County schools and law enforcement are joining together to improve school safety plans in the wake of the Uvalde massacre.

Sheriff Trace Hendricks said it was time to place the safety of our children and school faculty as priority number one.

Divers searching for the remains of a man who has been missing since 2009 made an...