A former Mexican presidential candidate has been sentenced to nine years in prison after officials accused him of spending millions of dollars in bribes on property purchases in the United States. Tomás Yarrington Ruvalcaba, the 66-year-old former governor of Tamaulipas…
The U.S. State Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety have each warned Americans to skip spring break vacations in Mexico, noting that ongoing violence poses a significant safety threat. The warning comes in the wake of the kidnapping of…
Stakeholders say the Texas takeover of Houston’s schools is rooted in politics, racism and retribution against an urban district that refuses to go along with a GOP governor’s culture war playbook. The Biden administration is being asked to open a…
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A joint investigation in Hays County led to the arrests of four teens suspected of multiple vehicle burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts of firearms and credit/debit card abuse, according to a release. The Hays County Sheriff’s Office said…
Attorneys for Andre Thomas, who was convicted of killing his estranged wife, 4-year-old son and her 13-month-old daughter, say he’s not competent enough to understand the reasoning for his execution. A Texas death row inmate who gouged out his own…
Investigators said they spoke to several witnesses, but that no one seemed to know what happened inside the home. HOUSTON — Police are investigating a home in southeast Houston where two men were found dead after reports of a shooting. It happened…
Found guilty of fatally smothering Wilder McDaniel, 2, in 2018, with a pillow, James Staley III sent the boy’s mother messages saying he pushed the boy’s face in a diaper and beat him, say authorities A man who killed his…
Republican lawmakers in Texas are pushing legislation that would make it a state felony to cross the border from Mexico illegally and establish a state unit of officers to assist with the arrests of migrants entering the state at places other than…
Authorities in Montgomery County are searching for the people who tried to break into a home in the Harmony subdivision earlier this month. SPRING, Texas — Authorities in Montgomery County are searching for a handful of suspects they said tried…
Many of the illegal voting cases the Texas attorney general has boasted about are unraveling after a key court ruling. But Tomas Ramirez III said the pursuit of charges against him has taken its toll. DEVINE — In this small…