Texas’ indigent defense commission wants lawmakers to spend $35 million on public defender offices in rural areas, but some ...

House Bill 845, filed by Frisco state Representative Jared Patterson, had sought to ban Texas universities from sponsoring or ...

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Thirty-seven years to the day, the state of Texas is set to execute Wood for the killing of six of those victims, who bodies ...

The House Public Education Committee is the first stop for a bill that Gov. Greg Abbott has made his top legislative priority ...

Texas has been on the forefront of limiting access to and the quality of sex education available to youth in schools for years ... more vulnerable to criminal prosecution under laws against ...

While Harris County DA Sean Teare blames Republicans for bail failures, Sen. Joan Huffman notes the Texas Senate is ...

A Texas woman is facing criminal charges after police say she went to her child’s school and threatened to shoot it up over ...

Texas Christian University is ranked No. 6 out of 96 in Best Online Master's in Criminal Justice Programs. Schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted ...

After eight years in “the hole” at Texas’ Lane Murray Unit, Kwaneta Harris documents the “daily reality” of staff sexual ...

The Plano man was sentenced to 17 years and six months in prison, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Texas Southern University builds on famous coach Thomas Freeman's legacy with world championship at the International ...