19 people are confirmed dead and at least 23 injured in the worst mass shooting in El Paso, Texas history. Police say a lone gunman armed with an assault rifle opened fire on shoppers as he walked into a Walmart near the Cielo Vista Mall.
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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.
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.
Pastor Joel Osteen finally opened the doors of his Houston megachurch after catching heat for closing the $50 million church in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
Osteen, 54, tweeted a prayer to everyone affected by the storm on Saturday, but he was criticized for shutting the doors of his megachurch for 3 days.
"Victoria & I are praying for everyone affected by Hurricane Harvey. Please join us as we pray for the safety of our Texas friends & family," Osteen tweeted on Saturday.
The prosperity preacher remained silent as others called for him to open the doors of his massive church for hurricane relief efforts.
Harvey is set to make landfall in Texas as a category 3 hurricane late Friday or early Saturday morning. Hospitals in Houston have evacuated patients and store shelves are bare as residents of coastal Texas brace for the killer storm.
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez's brother, Abraham Quintanilla, is listed among the top 10 Most Wanted criminals by Nueces County Sheriff’s Office in Corpus Christi, Texas. Abraham is pictured last year at the unveiling of his sister's wax figure at Madame Tussauds in Hollywood.
A 19-year-old immigrant who died in an overheated tractor trailer was brought to the U.S. as a toddler. Frank G. Fuentes died trying to sneak back into the U.S. after he was deported to his native Guatemala.
A group of Texas pastors are spearheading an effort to prevent a school superintendent from indoctrinating children with LGBT education in Texas public schools.
Customers inside a car Dealership in North Texas ran for their lives as a shootout left three people dead on Tuesday. None of the customers at the Greenville Nissan dealership were injured.
Police say 20 shots were fired in the span of 6 seconds.
Harrison Brown, 19 (pictured left), had just finished playing basketball and was heading to a food truck near the Gregory gymnasium on the University of Texas campus in Austin on Monday afternoon. He made it as far as Speedway -- a half-mile stretch of road that was converted to a footpath and space mall last year.
That's where Harrison ran into Kendrex J. White, a 21-year-old with a history of mental illness.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents forcibly removed an undocumented woman from a Texas hospital after she was refused surgery to remove a brain tumor.
A man who claimed he and his wife were victims of a hate crime now admit it was all a hoax.
Jenny and David Williams claimed someone spray painted the words "nigger lovers" on their garage door and set their truck and motorcycle on fire on Dec. 12.
UPDATE: The Fort Worth, Texas cop has been placed on desk duty.
Jacqueline Craig, 46, and her daughter are in a Fort Worth, Texas jail after they were arrested for reporting a neighbor who assaulted Craig's 7-year-old son.
Police have arrested a suspect who killed Detective Benjamin Marconi in front of police headquarters in San Antonio, Texas Sunday morning.
31-year-old Otis Tyrone McCain was taken into custody without incident after his car was stopped on I-10 around 4:30 p.m. Monday.
An intense manhunt is underway in San Antonio, Texas for a gunman who shot a San Antonio police detective in front of police headquarters on Sunday morning.
Detective Benjamin Marconi, 50, was ambushed and shot as he sat in his marked cruiser writing out a traffic ticket. He later died at a hospital.
Sandra Bland's family agreed to a $1.9 million "wrongful death" settlement -- even though her family and friends abandoned her in a Waller County, Texas jail cell.
A hot air balloon carrying 16 people caught fire and crashed in a field in Texas early Saturday. The accident occurred just before 7:40 a.m. in Lockhart, Texas, about 35 miles south of Austin, Texas.
The violent arrest of a black female school teacher in Texas last year is under investigation by the Austin Police Department.
Breaion King, 26, was pulled over for speeding in June 2015. Dashcam video captured Officer Bryan Richter body slam King to the ground and aggressively handcuffing her.
The NBA is mourning the loss of Bryce Dejean-Jones, a promising young New Orleans Pelicans guard who lost his life when he kicked in the door to the wrong apartment in Dallas early Saturday.
Dejean-Jones, 23, was in Dallas visiting his girlfriend to celebrate their daughter's 1st birthday.
A Texas teenager shot and killed his 3-year-old stepson because the boy wouldn't stop Jumping on a bed.
George Coty Wayman, 18, was charged with capital murder in the shooting death of three year old Dominic Tra’Juan Castro, the Washington Post reports.
The mother of 2 children found chained and tied up like dogs in the backyard of a San Antonio home on Friday was located in California over the weekend.
San Antonio police discovered a 2-year-old boy chained to the ground and a 3-year-old girl tied to a back door with a dog leash after responding to a 911 call from a neighbor who reported hearing the children crying for a long time.
Police in a small Texas town are combing fitness instructor Terri "Missy" Bevers's social media accounts for clues into who killed her inside a church.
The 45-year-old mother-of-three was murdered early Monday morning inside the Creekside Church of Christ in Midlothian, near Dallas, where she was scheduled to teach a fitness class.
Bevers died of blunt force trauma to the head.