A Texas community is mourning the loss of Navasota Police Sgt. Mark Butler, who died while saving others from a wrong-way driver during a pursuit.

The new funding comes after Mayor John Whitmire questioned cadets having to purchase their own firearms after taking office in 2024.

A manhunt is underway in Houston for the person officials say fatally shot a sheriff's deputy Wednesday as he attempted to serve an arrest warrant in a shopping plaza.

Multiple agencies are investigating Sunday night's crash in Houston, which resulted in the deaths of four people, including a minor, officials say.

"Drug-addicted rats" are destroying drug evidence in Houston, potentially comprising 3,600 open drug-related cases

A Houston man with  with lengthy criminal history stabbed his 58-year-old mother after she refused to hand over her wallet to him, police say.

The Sherman Police Department announced Friday afternoon that they will resume normal operations next week and that nonprofit Texas EquuSearch will continue coordinating search efforts for the missing Durant 8-year-old girl swept away by floodwaters in a Christmas Eve crash off US-75 moving forward.

An officer was hospitalized and police were searching for one person after a shooting Thursday morning in southwest Houston, officials said. Officials with the Houston Police Department provided limited details about the shooting on Twitter, saying preliminary information was that someone had shot an officer from another agency and fled on foot.

Authorities sent a Blue Alert to cell phones across Texas Wednesday afternoon for a man wanted in connection to the shooting death of a Brazoria County deputy.

Two Houston area law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty on Wednesday as Texas leads the U.S. in officer deaths. On Wednesday morning, Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Jesus Vargas was shot and killed by a man with an extensive criminal history while attempting to serve a warrant.

A rat infestation in a property room holding 1.2 million pieces of evidence is sparking concerns. "Anytime evidence is compromised, then cases could be compromised," a defense attorney said.