Austin Police Department officers are on the scene of an officer-involved shooting in northwest Austin Thursday morning.

Sign-up for Your Vote: Text with the USA TODAY elections team. The suspect was booked into a local jail after police found probable cause for a hate crime, police said. Jail records show she is no ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – A Travis County district judge on Friday ... Paul has unsuccessfully fought the jail sentence up to the Texas ...

According to the state, Tarrant County has been violating the law that requires third-party investigations into every jail ...

Shane James Jr., who is accused of fatally shooting 6 in Austin and San Antonio, has been found incompetent to stand trial in ...

Shane James allegedly killed his parents in San Antonio, then went on a shooting spree in Austin that left four dead. He was ...

Texas elections law says state prison inmates who are appealing their convictions are eligible to register. Many lawyers and ...

A man facing multiple charges of capital murder in connection with a Central Texas shooting spree in December 2023 was deemed ...

Democrat Tyler Kamp conceded the race for Maricopa County sheriff to Republican Jerry Sheridan in a statement on Nov. 6.

Small-scale marijuana possession will soon no longer result in jail time in Dallas, thanks to voters who approved a local pot decriminalization ballot initiative on Tuesday. Over 65% of Dallas voters ...

Williamson County Sheriff Mike Gleason lost his reelection bid to Republican Matthew Lindemann. Other county incumbents ...

Voters in three Texas cities approved decriminalizing marijuana on ballot measures on Tuesday, including Dallas, the third-largest city by population in the state. Lockhart and Bastrop, in Texas Hill ...