Crime and Public Safety

The FBI and the Department of Justice have labeled a Texas-based extremist group as a national security threat.

An infant was safely and legally surrendered at Fire Station No. 3 in Ennis, marking the first time the city’s anonymous Safe Haven Baby Box system was utilized to protect a child under the state’s Safe Haven law.

U.S. Border Patrol agents in south Texas have arrested a Cuban citizen with a history of child sex offense convictions who has been deported from the United States twice before, federal authorities announced.

A federal jury has convicted the former city manager of Anson, Texas, of attempting to entice a minor for sex following an undercover law enforcement sting, federal prosecutors announced.

Houston man Cristian Morris, 23, receives a 384-month federal prison sentence for trafficking teenage girls between illicit hubs in Houston and Dallas.

Vance Boelter pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to charges stemming from the fatal shootings of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, and the shootings that injured Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette Hoffman.

A 71-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison without parole after a Bexar County jury found him guilty of abusing multiple children, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office announced.

A man arrested last year who was involved in a Lego theft ring was found guilty by a Tarrant County jury last week, and will spend the next 45 years in jail.

The judge who initially approved a search warrant for a controversial arrest involving the Trinidad Police Department now says he was misled by officers.

Federal court documents show Vance Boelter intends to change his plea after initially pleading not guilty.

Investigators with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) have renewed their calls for the public’s help to identify a woman who was found dead more than 30 years ago.

A state judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by 31 former North Carolina State male athletes alleging sexual abuse by the former director of sports medicine.

Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux says his department arrested six people on Wednesday after an exchange of gunfire that was gang-related.

A suspect from a past Trackdown investigation was arrested in North Carolina last month, and it turns out she's the ex-wife of the victim who she shot 18 times after luring him outside with a fake pizza delivery.

An anonymous former child actor has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles against Sean "Diddy" Combs alleging sexual assault in 2007, while also suing his talent agencies for negligence.