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More than 100 Jewish attorneys from around Texas named in a court document supporting a new trial for Randy Halprin, one of the two surviving Texas Seven members awaiting execution.

A Missouri man who had been missing for a week was found alive in a wrecked car at the bottom of a ravine Wednesday evening, authorities said. Ryan Linneman, of Lee’s Summit, was found by a dirt bike rider in wreckage along Interstate 470 in Kansas City, Lee’s Summit police said. Read More

More than 100 Jewish attorneys from around Texas named in a court document supporting a new trial for Randy Halprin, one of the two surviving Texas Seven members awaiting execution.

Public visits to the 107-year-old Battleship Texas near Houston will be limited during cataloging of thousands of artifacts on board amid plans for $35 million in ship repairs and then relocation.

Texas lawmakers have earmarked $12.5 million for Palo Pinto Mountains State Park near Dallas-Fort Worth. What’s next for funding?

A Houston-area police officer who fatally shot a woman with mental illness is back on the job but not the streets.

A 4-year-old Texas girl whose stepfather reported she was abducted over the weekend had been removed from the family home months earlier because of allegations of abuse but was later returned, a child protection agency said Tuesday. The history of alleged abuse in Maleah Davis’ home emerged as police raise questions about her stepfather’s account of the girl’s abduction, and...

Four Texas prison guards have been fired and two others resigned over selfies accompanied by insensitive comments posted on social media, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice official said Wednesday.

A transgender woman convicted of insurance fraud is serving time at a men’s prison in North Carolina despite her repeated requests to transfer to women’s housing. The News and Observer reports 37-year-old Kanautica Zayre-Brown is believed to be the state’s only post-operative transgender prisoner. But the state recognizes her as a man and by her birth name, which was legally...

Chicago police are investigating a tip that on the night “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett reported being attacked by two masked men he was in an elevator of his apartment building with two brothers later arrested and released from custody in the probe.

Drivers sounded off Tuesday about long-range improvements for one of the most hated highways in North Texas — Highway 380 connecting Denton and Collin counties.

Seven Fort Worth police officers, who have been on desk duty since a man died in custody six months ago, are set to learn their discipline in a series of meetings on Tuesday.

Authorities say a man who was burying a pet in the backyard of the home he rents in Modesto discovered human remains.

A Shawnee State University professor is suing officials after receiving a written warning for violating its nondiscrimination policy by not addressing a transgender student using the gender terms preferred by the student. Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor and evangelical Christian, filed a federal lawsuit this month against officials at the university in Portsmouth.

Out of 54 California agencies surveyed by the Investigative Unit, 20 percent had launched internal pornography investigations since 2015.

Authorities didn’t search for a Houston man who cut off his ankle monitor in violation of parole terms until a week later when he was linked to a violent rampage that included three shooting deaths over four days, according to state and county officials.

A North Texas police department known for its tweets is at it again. The Southlake Police Department tweeted about a trio of alleged shoplifters Thursday morning.

A North Texas police department known for its tweets is at it again. The Southlake Police Department tweeted about a trio of alleged shoplifters Thursday morning.

Witness accounts of gunfire, chaos, bloody bodies and desperate bids to survive last year’s mass shooting in Las Vegas emerged Wednesday in police reports made public seven months after the deadliest event of its kind in modern U.S. history. “I was laying next to my mom and she said, “I got hit. I got hit,” one woman told police in...

Saturday morning, Kaitlyn Smith says she cut through her grandfather’s side yard after parking out front and was stunned to see a concrete slab where the air conditioning unit used to be.