A police officer in Kaufman is now facing an internal investigation after he showed some goodwill to a shoplifting suspect. According to Kaufman Police, that officer responded to a call Wednesday at Wal-Mart, where a male suspect was detained inside for trying to steal some food and a drink. Officials say the suspect told the officer he had not eaten in two days and stole the items because he was hungry.

A father fatally shot an armed robber who threatened him and his family at a Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen in San Antonio, Texas. Officers told Fox San Antonio that 19-year-old Andrews Herrera was killed after he approached Carlos Molina, 32, just before 9 p.m. Wednesday. Molina was eating at the fried chicken chain with his family when Herrera demanded that he hand over his property and threatened his children with a gun, police say.

After her oldest daughter was killed in May 2016, Michelle McDaniel and the rest of her family isolated themselves in their small Texas town out of fear that the unknown killer could be standing in line with them at the grocery store or passing them on the street. Then early last month, Brown County sheriff's investigators sent McDaniel a sketch of the man they suspected in her daughter's death, despite having no witnesses. The sketch was created using DNA found at the crime scene; a private lab used the sample to predict the shape of the killer's face, his skin tone, eye color and hair color.

More than 10,000 books are banned from Texas prisons, but they might not be the ones you think. Alice Walker's The Color Purple, which won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for fiction, is not allowed. Neither is Freakonomics, the 2005 bestseller that explained concepts such as cheating at school and parenting techniques using economic theory.

A second man has been charged in connection with an alleged bribery scheme involving state troopers and a Dallas trucking company, according to...

A suspected arson attack at a Texas Walmart was caught on camera Wednesday. Investigators said someone set two fires inside the store. Jackie Sinclair said she was doing some last-minute Thanksgiving shopping when a Walmart employee walked by frantically. Sinclair said she saw the massive flames and pulled out her cellphone to record. "I was like hang on let me show the kids," Sinclair said. "I'm one of those moms - I show my kids everything."

A teenager who has been in foster care since he was nine years old has a new family just in time for the holidays. Anthony, 16, said he didn’t think he ever wanted to be adopted, until he met Bennie Berry. Bennie was his English teacher, and now she is a first-time mom after Anthony asked her to adopt him.

At God’s Garage, volunteer mechanics fix and overhaul cars for single moms, widows and wives of deployed soldiers.

Last month, Google Fiber revealed that upcoming gigabit launches in Louisville and San Antonio would not offer a television service, instead suggesting YouTube TV. With Fiber launching in the Texas city today, Google announced a number of other changes, like only offering one plan and a promotional Nvidia Shield TV. Google argues that its 1,000 Mbps broadband service is sufficient for streaming any content that a subscriber would want over the internet...

The Houston patrol officer accused of trying to steal a duffel bag with 8 kilos of cocaine during a traffic stop in an elaborate internal affairs sting could face more charges, prosecutors said Monday. Officer Julissa Guzman Diaz, 37, was arrested Thursday for the third-degree felony of tampering and fabricating evidence could also be charged with intent to deliver a controlled substance, prosecutor Jennifer Stabe told state District Judge Denise Collins in court.

The Texas National Guard last year spent more than $373,000 to install controversial cellphone eavesdropping devices in secretive surveillance aircraft. Maryland-based Digital Receiver Technology Inc., or DRT, installed two of its DRT 1301C “portable receiver systems” in National Guard aircraft in partnership with the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to a contract between the Texas National Guard and the company.

Google says it is "not happy" that its search results displayed false information about Texas gunman Devin Patrick Kelley, who killed 26 people. The search engine displayed a carousel of posts "popular on Twitter" that contained false stories that Kelley was a Muslim and a left-wing extremist. Google's Danny Sullivan said the tweets were promoted by the site's "ranking algorithm", which would be improved.

Devin P. Kelley, who killed 26 people at a church on Sunday, was found by police after leaving a treatment center, according to a 2012 police report that also said he had threatened his Air Force superiors.

It's unclear what motivated 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley to allegedly open fire on churchgoers at the First Baptist Church, in the small community of Sutherland Springs, about 30 miles southeast of San Antonio. Investigators don't know if the suspect has any connection to terrorism. But on Sunday he came to the house of worship dressed in all-black tactical gear and a ballistic vest, apparently prepared to inflict mass casualties.

Officials said a man walked into the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Tex., and opened fire.

A man dressed as Santa Claus is accused of shooting three people, two critically, at a Halloween party in Austin, Texas early Sunday. Austin police said the shooter is in custody. The gunman knew the victims and had been attending the party, according to police detective Lee Knouse. Austin-Travis County EMS said a man and a woman were critically injured, and a third suffered serious injuries. Police said a fourth victim refused medical treatment at the scene.

After three years and 1,700 miles, a Texas dog is finally back home after she was stolen from a homeless woman. Ladybird, a Staffordshire Terrier, was originally trained to be a service animal for a woman who had narcolepsy and seizures. When the woman ended up homeless, Ladybird stayed by her side on the streets of Austin.

The city of Dickinson requires applicants for grants to repair homes or businesses damaged by Hurricane Harvey to refrain from boycotting Israel: ‘An egregious violation of the First Amendment, reminiscent of McCarthy-era loyalty oaths.’

25% of the state's 1,200 long-term care centers have been cited for serious standard deficiencies

"Heart of Texas" grew into the most popular Texas secession page on Facebook. It was run by the Russians. In early 2016, while researching some of the most popular U.S. secession groups online, I stumbled across one of the Russian-controlled Facebook accounts that were then pulling in Americans by the thousands. At the time, I was writing on Russia’s relationship with American secessionists from Texas, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. These were people who had hitched flights to Moscow to swap tactics...