Authorities were still searching Friday for a Texas inmate serving a life sentence for murder who escaped from a transport bus about 70 miles east of Waco after stabbing the driver.
A Texas appeals court on Monday delayed the execution of a woman amid growing doubts about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter.
Gov. Kevin Stitt commuted Jones' sentence to life without the possibility of parole.
Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder accuses prosecutor Thomas Binger of an improper line of questioning of Kyle Rittenhouse during Rittenhouse's homicide trial. Binger said he thought the door was open to his questions because of previous testimony, but the judge rejected that.
The federal government opened an investigation Wednesday into Texas’ long-troubled juvenile lockups, which currently detain nearly 700 teens who often are found to need heightened supervision or have committed violent crimes.
The state’s top lawyer is pressing local governments, including McLennan County, to join a multibillion-dollar legal settlement that would partially fund responses to the opioid epidemic, but also protect drug companies from future lawsuits.
Texas activists after Floyd verdict: “This verdict is not justice — it’s accountability” — Lawmakers said there is more work ahead to reform police behavior and the criminal justice system.
The lawsuit alleges that state officials' actions in response to the public health crisis caused financial harm and were "a disturbing and gross abuse of their power."
The girlfriend of a Fort Hood soldier who killed himself after reportedly admitting he killed Army Specialist Vanessa Guillén will remain in federal custody at least until a detention hearing next week, a Waco-based U.S. magistrate ruled Monday.
