Crime and Public Safety

A New York woman is headed to prison for her role in a COVID-era tax scheme that sought to bilk the U.S. government out of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax credits that were meant to help businesses weather the pandemic.

Governor Abbott has launched a joint state and local task force, the Texas Repeat Offender Program (TxROP), to specifically target and arrest violent repeat criminals in the Houston area.

DART Police have released more details on the officer-involved shooting that took place at Victory Station last weekend.

The Dallas Police Department’s Operation "We Got You" resulted in 162 arrests for violent offenses like murder and aggravated assault during the month of April.

Investigators confirmed the discovery of evidence Wednesday during a methodical search at the former home of Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, a missing 6-year-old boy whose mother, Cindy Rodriguez Singh, currently faces capital murder charges.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office for allegedly violating Senate Bill 8 by failing to seek a formal cooperation agreement with ICE.

The Dallas Police Department is overhauling its off-duty job policies after an imposter used fake credentials to hire officers and provide security for Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.

More than four years after it happened, Dallas Police continue to investigate a shooting in a Far North Dallas apartment parking lot that left a high school senior dead.

Kouri Richins, a Utah mother who gained attention for writing a children’s book about grief after her husband’s death, has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering him.

A trial date for a Florida teen accused of killing his stepsister while on family vacation has been moved to September.

A federal judge has ruled that immigration officers in Colorado have violated his order limiting when they can arrest people without a warrant.

State troopers have arrested a 30-year-old woman accused of providing alcohol to a teenager who was later killed in a single-vehicle crash last month, authorities said Tuesday.

A 34-year-old Nigerian national living in Houston pleaded guilty Tuesday to operating an illegal money-transmitting business that funneled proceeds from a sophisticated international email scam.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay for Edward Busby, a Tarrant County man convicted of kidnapping and murdering a retired TCU professor in 2004.

The South Carolina Supreme Court has overturned the murder conviction and life sentence for Alex Murdaugh.

The U.S. Coast Guard on Tuesday assisted in the rescue of passengers after a small plane crashed about 80 miles off Melbourne, Florida.