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A federal appeals court has partly upheld a $1 million verdict for a Texas correctional officer fired after a disability ...

Amos Nyanway, a 25-year-old officer with the Travis County Sheriff's Office in Austin, was booked on a misdemeanor charge of ...

Police were called to an address in Copperas Cove on Friday and talked with the boy, who had gone to a neighbor’s home. The ...

Texas and Alabama have executed death row inmates within minutes of each other, one for killing a 13-month-old baby during an "exorcism" and the other for shooting a mother of two in the head during a ...

Law enforcement is responding to a hostage situation at the South Central Correctional Center in Licking, Missouri, involving ...

About 15 minutes later, the Missouri State Highway Patrol SWAT team and the Corrections Emergency Response Team (CERT) ...

A Longview veteran received a life-changing companion this weekend thanks to a special program from Rusk County Pets Alive. The Fletcher Project, a new initiative created by Texas Department of ...

An East Texas veteran received a life-changing companion this weekend thanks to a special program from Rusk County Pets Alive ...

A South Carolina inmate who killed a man, burned his eyes with cigarettes and then painted “catch me if u can” on the wall ...

TEXAS COUNTY, Mo. (KCTV) - A man who murdered a Lee’s Summit teen has died, leaving 14 years of his sentence unserved. The ...

Two inmates at the South Central Correctional Center at Licking died recently at Texas County Memorial Hospital in Houston, ...