The Opportunity Center in southwest Houston is designed to help high school-aged students turn their lives around.

Time in detention for Harris County juveniles should be cut in half, according to a bill filed by Brownsville and ...

The highest court in Texas on Tuesday issued a rare stay of execution for David Leonard Wood, who has always denied being the so-called Desert Killer and reiterated his innocence in a recent ...

That informant recanted her testimony in 2011, but neither a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals or a federal district court found that prosecutors had violated Holberg’s constitutional right to a fair ...

Federal Appeals Court Reverses Texas Death Row Inmate’s Conviction A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

That informant recanted her testimony in 2011, but neither a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals or a federal district court found that prosecutors had violated Holberg's constitutional right to a ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, court records show. The Court of Criminal Appeals — the state's highest ...

But Mr. Duterte’s arrest also shows the limits of the court’s power: Although its jurisdiction is sweeping, the court cannot carry out arrests on its own. It relies on the cooperation of ...

And both would give legislators more power over the courts. Amendment 1 would do two things ... it would remove a section of the state constitution that lists specific felonies where a juvenile may be ...

Anyone charged with a crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. The investigation into the fire continues, state and local officials said. "At the ...