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A man who pled guilty to two January 2022 murders in Beaumont, including one on New Year's Day, is preparing to head to state ...

Plaintiff lawyer Tony Buzbee, who has already filed 40 lawsuits against Sean “Diddy” Combs, weighs in on Combs’s trial so far ...

The Randall County District Attorney, Robert Love, reported that Joshua Griffin Borders was sentenced to 14 years in prison ...

Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales is expected to announce he will not seek re-election, the San Antonio ...

People at the raided house say they rented it for a birthday party and deny any connection to the gang. One man says law ...

The 33 potential voting violations are a tiny fraction of the roughly 11 million who cast ballots in the November 2024 ...

A CalMatters investigation has found that poor people accused of crimes are routinely convicted in California without anyone investigating the charges against them. Close to half of California’s ...

Man remains jailed after probation violations in a 2019 child sex offense case as he awaits a judge’s decision on whether to ...

A new Texas law aims to crack down on a growing crime trend known as jugging — where suspects follow victims from banks to ...

A Dallas man was sentenced for calling and threatening members of a Sikh nonprofit organization in New Jersey.

It could be a year or more before the new trial of “Texas 7" inmate Randy Halprin gets underway. That’s because the Dallas ...