21 years has passed since James Byrd's gruesome death shocked the nation and devastated his family. Byrd was viciously killed by John William King and two accomplices in Jasper, Texas in 1998.
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Police released surveillance photo images of Austin, Texas serial bomber Mark Anthony Conditt, 24, who blew himself up as a SWAT team approached his car on I-35 in Austin early Wednesday morning.
The serial bomber who terrorized residents of Austin, Texas is dead after blowing himself up with an explosive device as a SWAT team approached his car early Wednesday morning.
A fifth explosion rocked Texas overnight at a FedEx facility in Schertz, about 65 miles from Austin. The latest explosion comes one day after two men were injured by a 4th bomb triggered by a tripwire. Texans are terrified and afraid to leave their homes in the wake of the bombings.
At least 16 Texas teachers will be better prepared to defend their students in an active shooter situation after attending an all day pistol training course. Teachers and staff from north Texas participated in a safe firearms training class offered by the Strategic Weapons Academy of Texas.
A Texas school district is warning students that they face suspension from school if they walk out to join nationwide gun control protests this week. "We are here for an education and not a political protest," is the message from Needville ISD Superintendent Curtis Rhodes.
A gunman killed 7 people inside a Plano home before he was shot and killed by a police officer. More than 3 dozen police units responded to the scene of the shooting in the 1700 block of West Spring Creek Parkway, near Custer Road, at 8:04 p.m. Sunday.
Beaumont, Texas police have identified the woman who drowned while trying to save her daughter in a flooded parking lot on Tuesday.
Collete sulcer, 41, died as she attempted to wade through flood water along Interstate 10 while carrying her 3-year-old daughter Jordyn.
Master P publicly checked Kevin Hart for demanding celebrities open their wallets and donate to Hurricane Harvey victims in Texas. The 47-year-old Louisiana rapper criticized the pint-sized comedian in an interview with gossip webloid TMZ on Tuesday.
The tropical storm struck Texas over the weekend resulting in widespread flooding and devastation in the Houston metropolitan area.
This photo of elderly nursing home patients sitting in waist-high flood water while awaiting rescue is going viral. This is not a hoax. The assistance living facility is in Dickinson, Texas, near Houston which is mostly underwater. SHAME on Houston's Democratic Mayor Sylvester Turner for ignoring the governor's calls to evacuate before Hurricane Harvey made landfall.
In the aftermath of Harvey, the governor called Turner's office four times offering help, but this idiot mayor refused to return his phone calls.