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Cameron Darrick Peterson, 20, pleaded guilty to a weapons charge and was sentenced to 6½ years in federal prison, officials ...

A mother and son arrested in early 2024 for offering "illicit commercial sex" at massage parlors they owned in Lubbock and ...

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas - A suspect accused of potting mass murder attacks over several months has been sentenced. On Wednesday, Cameron Darrick Peterson, 20, was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison ...

A Canton man was sentenced to federal prison Tuesday for playing a role in a wire fraud conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas. Jams Derr, 55, pleaded guilty of the crime, and was sentenced to 46 ...

Texas is likely to play an outsized role in detaining immigrants because it already has 21 detention facilities.

Bobby Wayne Land, 48, of Mineola, has been sentenced to 17 and a half years in federal prison after pleading guilty to ...

State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her ...

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo ... O'Daniel Unit, a Gatesville prison that houses females on death row, among other inmates. Texas leads the country in executions and is among the top ...

A federal appeals court has tossed ... O’Daniel Unit, a Gatesville prison that houses females on death row, among other inmates. Texas leads the country in executions and is among the top ...

Private prison company GEO Group sued the state comptroller in 2017, arguing the company's purchases qualified for an ...