Members of the Texas Senate's Criminal Justice Committee heard testimony Wednesday on five bail-related bills aimed at ...

Harris County Sheriff's Office leadership is trying to keep quiet on email conversations they had with Houston Police Department ahead of the hiring of a former police officer at the center of ...

The family of Erik Carlson, who died last month, said they are still searching for answers after the 29-year-old suddenly ...

Patrece Lee, a former maintenance manager with Houston Public Works, last year was charged with abuse of official capacity ...

The proposed expansion includes seven new non-felony district courts: three new civil courts, three family courts and one ...

The University of Houston's medical school will ask the Texas legislature for $200 million to build a community hospital in ...

Over the last four years, 489 murder cases were dismissed. Almost a third of those dismissals were due to insufficient ...

Both cases are part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched by the DOJ in May 2006 to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse.

A review of recent campaign finance reports for Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and Fort Bend County Judge KP George show that both have spent thousands of campaign dollars on criminal defense ...

In a move hailed as crucial for survivors of domestic violence in Orange County, community leaders have started laying the groundwork for a Family Justice Center. The proposed center aims to ...

Ogden's heart is set to beat a bit stronger come May with the completion of the new Weber-Morgan Children’s Justice ... The new center is a group effort, with every city in Weber County chipping ...

By Glenn Thrush Reporting from Washington The Justice Department has ordered an immediate halt to all new civil rights cases or investigations — and signaled that it might back out of Biden-era ...