Crime

TYLER, Texas (AP) — Police in East Texas are investigating at least two cases in which a woman flashed a badge, lied about being an officer and robbed someone.

Tyler police have appealed to the public for help in identifying the suspect, who was not in uniform

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HOUSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has refused to stop this week's execution of a Houston man for gunning down a police sergeant more than 12 years ago.

A three-judge panel of the 5th U

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mexican drug cartels are quietly filling the void in the nation's drug market created by the long effort to crack down on American-made methamphetamine, flooding U.S. cities with cheap, potent meth from factorylike "superlabs

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HOUSTON (AP) — Investigators in Houston say a correction to a mislabeled rape kit has led to a suspect identified in the 2003 sexual assault of an elderly woman.

Harris County District Attorney Pay Lykos said Wednesday that a DNA sample from Wesley Bernard Gordon was not registered in a law enforcement database until 2008

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HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston officer has fatally shot a suspect who allegedly beat some neighbors and then refused to cooperate with police.

Police spokesman John Cannon says the shooting happened early Thursday

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DALLAS (AP) — A Texas woman who admitted to beating her 2-year-old daughter and gluing her hands to a wall is to be sentenced.

Elizabeth Escalona pleaded guilty July 12 to injury to a child

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Your childhood fantasy (or fear?) of seeing an officer of the law who is part man/part machine may be coming true soon, thanks to Researchers at Florida International University's Discovery Lab and a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserves. These folks are working to build "telepresence robots," which would patrol the streets while being controlled by disabled police officers and military vets. Let's pause to allow the awesomeness sink in.

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Lubbock Criminal Attorneys have charged an Amarillo man with felony criminal cruelty to animals charges. Police said he cut off a dog's ears and attempted to sew them back on.

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It’s September, which means the nation is starting to go football crazy. Ohio woman Janine Fulton recently took football insanity to a new level when she filled a couple official size Wilson balls with pills, marijuana, cigarettes, cell phones, and cell phone chargers and tried to toss them into the Richland Correctional Institution in Mansfield, OH.

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LIBERTY, Texas (AP) — Testimony has resumed without the defendant present in the first trial over the alleged sexual assault of a Texas middle school girl by 20 men and boys over several months two years ago

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