Steve Coleman was kept for 21 months after his parole date because the state could not find a nursing home placement.

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Texas Senate Bill 2 is moving through the legislature and educators are worried about its potential impact on the Teacher ...

Desiree Hamm, 37, of San Diego, California, became the first woman in Texas to be classified as a sexually violent predator ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Thursday what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the ...

A Nigerian man has been extradited to the US to face charges in the “sextortion” of a South Carolina teen who died by suicide ...

A registered sex offender who was again accused of sexual assault against a child was convicted by an Ector County jury Wednesday on two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of ...

A Texas junior high student found something quite unusual on their school's playground this past Friday- a fully loaded ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A man, who at one time was ordered to serve the rest of his life in prison after avoiding a possible death sentence but was then granted a parole hearing last year, will remain ...

Police are searching for an inmate who escaped custody after being taken to Bellville Hospital in Austin County.

When she began writing letters to a man on Texas’ death row, Noa Dubois had no intention of finding a husband. Instead, the now-29-year-old was searching for someone who would understand her ...