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People in Maverick County spend months in jail waiting to be charged with minor crimes. Some are simply lost in the system ...

CORSICANA, Texas — Two Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers were struck by a pickup truck Thursday morning on Interstate 45 near Corsicana, the department said in a release.

CORSICANA, Texas — In September of 1993, the city of Corsicana was captivated by headlines about a wealthy businessman and the murder of his beautiful wife, whose body was discovered floating in ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more humane method.

As of February, their population was about 2.5% higher than the same time last year, according to data collected by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. The most important Texas news ...

AUSTIN — A yearslong spike of in-custody deaths in the Tarrant County Jail could come under scrutiny by the Texas Legislature with a bipartisan pair of bills filed by Tarrant County House ...

LIBERTY COUNTY, Texas — Inmates were able to take over part of the Liberty County Jail on Thursday morning, according to the sheriff's office. Liberty County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Oscar Martinez ...

R.E. Wermus is a journalism intern for The Daily Signal. Mexican cartel members are “running scared” and fearful of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration, according to ...

Officials in Puerto Rico’s health sector also have offered to help undocumented migrants. Carlos Díaz Velez, president of the ...

TEXAS COUNTY, Mo. — A man is in jail after exposing himself outside a Summersville business, then fighting and gouging the eyes of a Texas County deputy. Joshua Bolin, courtesy of the Texas ...