An arrest affidavit states that 30-year-old Yosbel Alonso Ayala received over $400,000 in payments from various suspects tied ...

A 21-year-old North Texas man was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison after posing online as a girl to exploit children ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's office and Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux are sparring over crime stats, with each citing ...

Advocates say the legislation, authored by Republican state Sen. Tan Parker of Flower Mound, isn’t a get out of jail free ...

CBP officers arrested Cirino Gutierrez and Bernardo Vasquez Rodriguez, wanted for child sex crimes, at Texas border bridges ...

The measure comes four years after the state’s highest criminal court ruled the agency could not bring election cases without ...

Crime lab officials told lawmakers Wednesday they are struggling to keep up with deadlier drugs like fentanyl and a THC ban ...

How has Florida made the death penalty a more prominent part of its criminal justice system? In 2023, it passed a law making ...

The ODonnell Consent Decree, implemented in 2019 in response to a class action lawsuit against the county, is a ...

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Latest FBI crime statistics show Texas border cities are safer than other metropolitan areas and cities. And it's not the ...

Senate Bill 11 would shield victims from prosecution from some crimes if they’re threatened or coerced into the act by their trafficker.