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On Friday, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) welcomed 138 new Texas Highway Patrol Troopers from recruit Class ...

Senate Bill 781, authored by Phil King, R-Weatherford, would create a uniform ... One of the state’s largest police unions, Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas or CLEAT, backs King ...

Francois worked as a painter and Dorothy a nurse at St. Joseph’s Hospital, the towering Spanish Renaissance building on the ...

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) celebrated the graduation of 138 new Texas Highway Patrol Troopers from recruit ...