Highway patrol officers in Texas have been turning over to federal immigration authorities the names of hundreds of people stopped on certain traffic violations, a newspaper reported. Details of the lists that Texas’ Department of Public Safety (DPS) has been sharing for two years were revealed during court proceedings on an immigration case of a San Antonio man, Gaspar Rodriguez Garcia. Garcia was pulled over by a DPS officer for failing to come to a...

Armando Colunga was watching the news in San Antonio when he saw a report Tuesday night about authorities discovering 54 undocumented immigrants in the back of an 18-wheeler truck. The men were being detained, sitting in a group on the ground, while they waited for authorities to interview and transport them. Colunga felt compelled to act. The tow truck driver hopped in his vehicle and drove across town to help.

A man in Texas helps police find missing people. He’s spent three decades working on the hardest, coldest case of all: his daughter’s murder. Has he finally solved it?

Most toddlers are learning how to write or count. Thankfully, one Texas 3-year-old learned how to call 911. Dorothy Craig, of Cleveland, Texas, may very well have saved her mother’s life — or her siblings’ lives — on Wednesday when she collapsed and fell unconscious on the floor, according to Houston ABC station KTRK. That’s when Dorothy, not even old enough to go to school, sprang into action. The youngster picked up a phone and immediately called 911.

Amarillo College, in Texas, is working hard to accommodate low-income students—but it can only do so much.

A Guatemalan woman shot dead by a border patrol agent in Texas has been named as Claudia Patricia Gómez Gonzáles by local media outlets which reported that she travelled to the US in the hope of finding work to pay for her education. Gómez, a 20-year-old Maya-Mam indigenous woman, died on Wednesday after she was shot in the head by an agent in the border town Rio Bravo, Texas.

A husband and wife accused of running a prostitution ring posing as a massage parlor in northwest Austin were revealed after hundreds of condoms clogged part of their sewage system. On Feb. 7, a detective was assigned to investigate Jade Massage Therapy, at 11416 N. Farm to Market 620 -- near Anderson Mill Road -- after getting a tip from the property's management company about possible prostitution at the massage parlor. It was the second such tip the Austin Police Department had received in the last three months.

A woman says she delivered her premature baby in her jail cell after guards ignored her screams for help, accusing her of faking her labor.

Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo slammed elected officials for inaction on the state and federal levels in response to repeated shootings at schools across the country. His comments come in the wake of the latest school shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas that left 10 people dead. Appearing on CBS News' "Face the Nation" on Sunday, Acevedo said that political leaders are failing to heed the will of the voters when it comes to gun regulations and reforms.

A state representative from Houston is asking for more than just sympathy following the mass shooting in Sante Fe, Texas on Friday. "Y'all been sending thoughts and prayers for two freaking decades now," tweeted Rep. Gene Wu, who represents the Gulfton area. "Time to try something new. At least nine people are dead and 12 others injured after a gunman opened fire in Santa Fe High school, local authorities report.

At least eight people -- and as many as 10 -- have died as a result of a shooting Friday morning at a high school in the southeastern Texas city of Santa Fe, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said. This is the third school shooting in eight days, and the 22nd since the beginning of the year in the United States.

At least eight people -- and as many as 10 -- have died as a result of a shooting Friday morning at a high school in the southeastern Texas city of Santa Fe, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said.

Maria Zapata went to see Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quezada a little more than five years ago because one of her knees was bothering her. The rheumatologist told her that she had arthritis and that he'd give her injections "to strengthen the cartilage" in her knee, she said. Her husband asked, "Why are you giving her so many injections?" The doctor reassured them that the treatment would help.

A Texas woman who killed her cheating husband by repeatedly running him over with her car has been released from prison. Clara Harris served 15 years for the murder, which made headlines worldwide and was featured in a made-for-television movie. The 60-year-old walked out of prison on Friday.

Handcuffed and hauled away. It happened Monday to a 5th grade autistic student at Conroe Independent School District's Bozman Intermediate school. The offense alleged against 12-year-old David Sims is brandishing an "imaginary" rifle at his art teacher, an educator who apparently felt threatened. "She (CISD Police Officer) just put handcuffs on me and told me I need to go with her," said David Sims. "They just said, 'We don't tolerate that. We take it as a threat.' A threat? He didn't threaten anyone. He didn't do anything but play," said Amy Sims, David's mother.

Bridging the years with books: Moms in prison read to their children in voice recordings. Entering its 15th year, the Storybook Project rewards inmates who have maintained good behavior behind bars with a chance to reach out to the children.

Police say two high school students have died in an apparent drowning in a North Texas reservoir. Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds says Oscar Rios, 18, and Julio Espinosa-Guerrero, 17, died Monday while swimming with a group at Wheeler Branch Park, about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth. Deeds says the Granbury High School students had skipped school for "senior skip day." The sheriff says some students tried to rescue the drowning teens before first responders arrived.

Federal authorities say dozens of people associated with white-supremacist gangs in North Texas have been arrested on charges of drug trafficking and also a kidnapping that included using a hatchet to chop off the victim's finger. Authorities announced Monday that 57 people were charged in the conspiracies. Forty-two were arrested last week, nine were already in custody on unrelated charges and six others are being sought.

Mere weeks ago in Austin, Texas, a 69-year-old former policeman named James Miller was sentenced to 10 years probation and six months in jail for stabbing his 32-year-old neighbor Daniel Spencer to death two years ago after Spencer allegedly tried to kiss him. Though Miller claimed to fear for his life before murdering Spencer, killing a gay person over sexual advances is known as a “gay panic defense,” and it’s been banned in California and Illinois.