Bob Ruff is working on his fifth Texas case in fewer than four years, this time hoping to prove the innocence of Sandra Melgar in the killing of her husband, Jaime Melgar.
New insights about Redrick “Red” Batiste emerge after his accomplices are found guilty.
Carly Mayo, eighteen, is now back in Tyler and living with her mom as she reckons with her past.
Where’s the money?
UT-Austin’s tennis coach and an exam administrator in Houston are facing federal charges.
The Legislature remains far from allowing recreational use, but baby steps toward decriminalization could come this session.
Because the charges were dismissed pretrial, prosecutors have the right to refile a criminal complaint.
The announcement comes amid growing questions about the legitimacy of the investigation that led to the deadly raid.
Driving through a dangerous curve in Tyler, James Fulton crossed into oncoming traffic and killed a young woman. He wasn’t drunk, and the cops said the crash was an accident. But the Smith County DA saw it differently.
The police tactic is controversial but common—particularly in Texas.
It won’t bring back the seven-year-old girl killed in a drive-by shooting on Sunday morning, but it might make it easier for her family to get through their mourning.
Found guilty in 1987, the freed man will be paid $2.5 million by the state of Texas, which he'll use to support his prison ministry.
Jacob Walter Anderson has been kicked off of campus and will not be allowed to attend his graduation ceremony.
Jacob Walter Anderson, charged with raping and choking a fellow student, will pay a $400 fine as part of the deal.
The Dallas police officer who shot and killed Botham Shen Jean in his own apartment, indicted for murder, now awaits trial. Here's a quick primer on where things stand.
A controversial Dallas civil rights lawyer is holding police accountable—and being held accountable, too.
How the Texas Organizing Project is transforming the electoral landscape.
After discovering the convict cemetery in March, the city appointed a panel of stakeholders. Now it’s ignoring their recommendation.
In 1967, a 56-year-old lawyer met a young inmate with a brilliant mind and horrifying stories about life inside. Their complicated alliance—and even more complicated romance—would shed light on a nationwide scandal, disrupt a system of abuse and virtual slavery across the state, and change incarceration in Texas forever.
Brownsville police officer Valerie Rivas was charged with smuggling her undocumented boyfriend. She’s been acquitted. He’s likely to be deported.
Dallas police waited to release the suspect’s name even as it appeared across the internet, eroding the local community’s already fragile trust.
Brandley died last week, 31 years after the state of Texas tried and failed to kill him.
The surprising pair has joined forces for a noble cause.
How a motley crew of young Texas lawyers, a burly Michigan podcaster, and his army of amateur sleuths—including actor Jon Cryer—helped free a man convicted of a murder he swears he didn’t commit.
Notes from the Dallas courtroom where, against the odds, police officer Roy Oliver was convicted of murder after shooting the 15-year-old black boy.
The Associated Press reporter discusses his 17,000 days on the job in our Reporter podcast.
The Infowars honcho’s legal troubles mount.
After Aliah Hernandez was brutally beaten in a New Braunfels motel room, her attacker walked away free.
Originally sentenced to twenty years, the Houston dentist who ran over her cheating husband has been paroled.
Manley was named the lone finalist to lead the city’s police department.
More than two decades ago, Christopher Scott was wrongfully imprisoned for murder. Now he’s devoting his time to help free others.
The company’s ”Verrückt” waterslide, on which a ten-year-old boy was decapitated, was built by people who didn’t know how to engineer it.
A decade ago, Gabby Sones accused her parents and five others of running the most depraved child sex ring in Texas history. Now she’s ready to clear their names.
The city’s new police chief explains how she plans to apply the lessons she learned in Detroit to a troubled department.
Despite some earlier claims, it appears that Rogelio Martinez was not the victim of an attack.
The new policy is a bit of a chin-scratcher.
When Alberto Mendiola returned to El Paso from the war in Afghanistan, he was suffering from severe, untreated PTSD. But is that a viable defense for murder?
The FBI wants the tech company to help them access information on Devin Kelley’s locked device.
Sally Hernandez, Kim Ogg, and Catrina Shead speak about the importance of working together to protect a city's most vulnerable residents.
Tania Joya had been married to a jihadist from Texas for ten years—but she was unnerved by his increasingly extreme ideology and wanted out.
The Tarahumara, of Mexico’s Sierra Madre mountains, are the world’s greatest ultramarathoners. But in recent years, their legendary endurance has been put to a sinister use—in service of the narcos.
The 2011 letter, in which Jones admits that she "was heinous" and sorry for the damage because of her crime, came as a surprise to prosecutors.
Decades after prosecutors convicted Genene Jones of killing a single infant, a Texas grand jury has indicted the former nurse on a second charge of murder. Prosecutors hope to prevent Jones’s release from prison, which is scheduled for next year.
Harris County was forced to release inmates after its pretrial detention system was declared unconstitutional.
The candied drugs came in shapes of butterflies, flowers, bats and Star Wars characters.
The NSA contractor accused of leaking a classified document has South Texas roots.
Kerry Max Cook, who spent almost twenty years on death row for a murder he maintains he didn't commit, sues the people who sent him there.
Texas is scheduled to release Genene Jones, a former nurse and suspected serial killer of children, early next year. Today, prosecutors in San Antonio moved to prevent her release, bringing a new murder charge against Jones in connection with the death of a child 35 years ago.
It’s a familiar story with an unfamiliar twist.
The Supreme Court says Texas must change the way it determines who can be executed.
