Crime and Public Safety

This month marks 10 years since a Fort Worth police officer was shot and nearly lost his life in the line of duty. Today, Det. Matt Pearce remains on the force, and he’s reflecting on his close call.

Two men were found fatally shot Sunday afternoon in the 4600 block of Columbia Avenue in Old East Dallas.

A Haslet pastor has resigned after his son, a registered sex offender, was arrested and revealed to have been working at a local church and school.

March 2 marks Day 30 in the search for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of NBC "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie, who went missing from her Tucson-area home on Feb. 1.

A Texas Tech student has been identified by Austin police as one of the victims in Sunday's deadly shooting at a 6th Street bar.

Two elementary school students in the Melissa Independent School District were hit by a car on the way to school on Monday morning.

Nearly five decades after a newborn baby girl was found dead in a trash bag at a Columbus County, North Carolina, landfill, authorities have arrested 69-year-old Cathy McKee.

Dallas police are searching for a shooter who opened fire with a rifle on a South Dallas home late Sunday, wounding two women who were inside at the time.

Dallas police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who struck a motorcycle officer on I-35E early Monday morning, leaving a trail of wreckage before abandoning their vehicle nearby.

Three people, including the gunman, were killed, and 14 others were wounded in a mass shooting outside a bar in Austin's bustling Sixth Street entertainment district early Sunday morning that authorities said may have ties to terrorism.

Witnesses described a scene of "pandemonium and hysteria" as gunfire erupted inside a packed Austin bar, leaving several dead and many others clinging to life.

The story details a mass shooting in Austin's Sixth Street entertainment district that left three dead and 14 wounded, with investigators currently probing the gunman's potential ties to terrorism.

A 40-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murder following a fatal shooting outside a Lewisville bar early Sunday morning.

Texas primary candidates and federal officials are responding to a fatal mass shooting outside an Austin beer garden that left three dead and 14 injured as the FBI investigates potential ties to terrorism.

Arlington police have arrested a second suspect in connection with a 2025 shooting on I-20 that killed a mother and her unborn baby.

Daniel Serafini, who pitched for 11 years in the MLB, will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing his father-in-law and shooting his mother-in-law in 2021.

It's been nearly a month since Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of NBC "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie, went missing from her Tucson-area home.