Posted: 4:38 PM AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) will increase DWI patrols from August 19 – September 5, which includes the Labor Day holiday weekend. DPS troopers will focus DWI patrols in high-risk locations at times when alcohol-related crashes are most frequent. The enhanced patrols that target impaired drivers are funded through a grant from the Texas Department of Transportation.
Updated: 9:20 PM Dallas-area officials have launched an aerial assault on the mosquito population in the hope of ending a West Nile virus epidemic.
Updated: 9:03 AM A Texas jury has awarded nearly $1 million to a Union Pacific worker who sued the railroad giant after claiming he was infected with West Nile virus while on the job.
Posted: 2:24 PM AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and Texas Public Safety Commission has announced the appointment of Kirby Dendy as assistant director/chief in charge of the Texas Rangers effective September 1, 2012. Dendy had served as second in command of the Texas Rangers since 2011. His promotion follows the retirement of Ranger Chief Hank Whitman.
Posted: 10:52 PM Tense moments Wednesday afternoon in Montgomery County after an eight year old girl was run over by an SUV driven by a sister.
Posted: 3:02 PM The trial for an Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly Fort Hood shooting has been put on hold while an appeals court considers his objections to being forcibly shaved.
Updated: 9:44 AM Bryan Police Officer Jason James is learning how to cope with the loss of his friend Brian Bachmann.
Posted: 11:42 AM Storms in North Texas have knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses.
Posted: 11:37 AM Police say a 13-year-old South Texas boy has been accused of using a hammer to beat his mother.
Updated: 11:43 AM An unwanted, sticky glaze showing up in several parts of Texas has been blamed on recent rains and what bugs leave behind.
Updated: 3:47 PM Thousands of dead fish are washing ashore along the Texas coast from the Colorado River to Galveston Island and Parks and Wildlife biologists suspect low oxygen levels off shore may be to blame.
Posted: 12:00 PM Texas historically has one of America's highest incarceration rates per capita but has slipped to its lowest level since 2008, falling to fourth overall among the 50 states.
Updated: 11:01 AM The fallout from a sex scandal at Lackland Air Force Base widened Friday, when the military ousted the top commander over the basic training unit where investigators say dozens of female recruits were sexually assaulted or harassed by their male instructors.
Posted: 7:31 PM Montgomery County authorities say a pair of criminals robbed more than 100 victims of their mail, all to open credit cards and steal money.
Updated: 4:31 PM An AWOL soldier convicted of planning to blow up a restaurant full of Fort Hood troops has been sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge in Texas.
Updated: 3:38 PM Montgomery County taxpayers will pay for the defense of a man accused of killing his sister.
Posted: 7:07 AM Lance Armstrong's fight with U.S. anti-doping officials is going before a federal judge in Austin, Texas.
Updated: 4:31 PM Tens of thousands of marijuana plants were collected in Polk County Thursday in what is being called the biggest pot bust in Texas history.
Updated: 4:41 PM The price for gasoline in Texas has jumped sharply, increasing by 13 cents on what analysts say is pressure from oil prices and a drought-driven boost in the cost of ethanol.
Posted: 3:44 PM Sentencing has been delayed for an AWOL soldier convicted of planning to blow up a restaurant full of Fort Hood troops.
Updated: 3:24 PM AUSTIN—Texas highways are safer now thanks to hundreds of projects completed in the last few years to add shoulders, width on more than 1,000 miles of rural, two-lane highways.
Updated: 11:44 AM A state audit indicates traffic fatalities in Texas have declined nearly 15 percent since 2006.
Updated: 5:13 AM An AWOL soldier convicted of planning a "massive attack" on a restaurant full of Fort Hood soldiers as part of his religious mission is expected to be sentenced Thursday in Texas federal court.
Updated: 5:13 AM A military judge was to decide if a terrorism expert will testify during the trial of the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage.
Posted: 10:57 PM The president of Susan G. Komen for the Cure is resigning and founder Nancy Brinker is moving away from day-to-day management as fallout from the foundation's brief decision to end Planned Parenthood funding reaches its highest ranks.
