The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially ...

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ABELINE - The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) announced that Raymond Trejo, one of Texas' 10 Most Wanted Sex ...

The Walker County Hospital District has called a bond election for May to consider funding and building a new hospital in Huntsville.

A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

Raymond Lee Trejo, 35, of Abilene, was arrested March 12 in Stillwell, Oklahoma, by the Cherokee Nation Marshal Service's ...

A Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesperson said the agency had no comment on Holberg’s case. Holberg is currently ...

Yolanda Saldivar, the woman convicted of murdering rising star Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez in 1995, is seeking ...

David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly 33 years on death row for the crimes.

Texas lawmakers are pushing more than 100 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and ...