A federal law enforcement source told CBS News that local police arrested eight people. The official said some of those ...

Two Texas Tech police officers were shot and a suspect was killed in an officer-involved shooting on campus overnight.

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT - Matthew Lee Johnson, who set shop assistant Nancy Harris on fire during a robbery in Dallas, Texas, addressed the victim's relatives before he was executed in prison ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is facing a unique challenge: finding a new home for a massive bat colony before they can demolish a vacant warehouse near its prison in Huntsville.

AUSTIN, Texas — Viewed from the outside, the Texas State Prison in Huntsville is a stark, foreboding building. But it was behind those thick prison walls 50 years ago that America was gripped by ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (TND) — A Texas homeowner is facing one charge of felony arson after a fire at his home killed two and injured another, KTRK reported. Mario Roberson could receive a sentence ...

Records from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice show the agency has stored pentobarbital at the Huntsville Unit, located about 70 miles (113 kilometers) north of Houston.

Attorneys for Jedidiah Murphy, a condemned Texas inmate have asked a federal judge to stop his execution, alleging the drugs he is to be injected with next week were exposed to extreme heat and ...