The state’s four U.S. attorneys met in Dallas to discuss how a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a gun rights case involving an ...

A cylindrical gas tank attached to a truck is what hid two migrants as the vehicle traveled down the interstate, photos from ...

A missing Texas woman was found safe on Friday after she disappeared without a phone or car. Melonie Ballenger, 46, went ...

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) partnered with El Paso law enforcement agencies in October to assist in bringing ...

Police in Texas are searching for Melonie Ballenger, a 46-year-old mother, who vanished earlier this week without her phone ...

Brad Chandler Simpson, 53, was jailed Friday on $2 million bond on multiple felony charges including murder, Bexar County ...

Two migrants were found by a Texas trooper last week inside a gas tank along the southwestern Texas border, according to a ...

Every day for the past 24 years someone has died on a roadway in Texas.Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) and Texas ...

A large inmate population and a changing workforce have created a “staffing crisis” that makes it “almost impossible” to ...

The Texas DPS arrested five individuals in a crackdown on clean scanning fraud at vehicle inspection stations.

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TxDOT and DPS unite to end Texas's 24-year streak of daily roadway fatalities, averaging 10 deaths per day in 2024.