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Gov. Greg Abbott, seeking about $11 billion to defray state spending on border security, didn’t come empty handed to ...

Desiree Hamm of San Diego, California, who kidnapped, sexually assaulted and branded 2 Texas girls, is now the first female sexually violent predator in Texas.

Four defendants in unrelated felony cases received prison sentences in criminal case involving aggravated assaults and ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott offered President Donald Trump land for more border wall, military bases to house federal authorities ...

Derek Ross, who played cornerback for Ohio State University between 1999 and 2001, pleaded guilty Monday to felony ...

Daniel Khalife, 23, sparked a nationwide manhunt after clinging to the underside of a food delivery lorry to break out of the Category B jail on 6 September ... to Fort Hood, Texas, where he ...

A Texas man has been executed for the killing of a Dallas area pastor who was attacked in his church during a robbery. Steven ...

Carpenter was sued in December by the Texas attorney general ... up to $5,000 and sent to jail for one to five years. The law carves out protections for pregnant women who obtain the drug without ...

Immigrants, advocacy groups, lawyers in South Carolina express fears as they brace for how Trump administration's mass ...