Courts

Aaron Brewer was just one of 179 people swept up by Operation DisrupTor in September last year.

While a congressional committee continues to probe the deadly U.S. Capitol riot that rattled the country on Jan. 6, the roles Texas Republicans allegedly played in the insurrection are once again in the spotlight. On Thursday night, state Rep. Kyle Biedermann, known for backing Texas’ secession from the United States, denied…

David Pettigrew, a former pastor in Denison, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three decades in a federal prison.

Michelle Simpson Tuegel, a Texas attorney and women’s rights advocate, says the state’s “heartbeat bill” would prevent attorneys from providing their clients with needed legal advice about abortion. That’s why she’s filing suit.

After his trial in June, Dallas developer Ruel Hamilton faces up to 25 years in federal prison for allegedly bribing two city council members for help with his real estate projects.

Street racers and stunt drivers have been in a game of cat and mouse with police for the last year. Are the cops beginning to catch up?

This week, a Colombian cartel member was sentenced to 327 months behind bars for drug trafficking violations.

Michelle Anderson, the policy associate for The Afiya Center, a Black-owned women reproductive justice organization, thinks a ban on purchasing sex will only push the industry further underground.

It took Ebony Underwood years to understand how her father’s incarceration has affected her life. “I didn’t realize how devastating the experience has been until I became a little bit older, a little bit more mature,” she said. “But it had just been affecting so many areas of my life.”…

In the lawsuit, which names a majority of the last city council, the Davenports claim Dallas targeted the car wash with “retroactive over-regulation designed to put it out of business under the guise of fighting crime.”

Austin Palmer, a former Dallas County Sheriff’s Deputy, faces the prospect of one year behind bars and up to $8,000 in fines.

When federal authorities arrested him, Anthony Lennell Acy, 34, was keeping his victims in Room 211 at the Comfort Inn and Suites off Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway in Dallas. He’d beat them, make them take ecstasy and forced them to have sex with customers in Texas and California, according to…

Allegedly, Maranda Odonnell was driving with an invalid license. After being taken into custody in Harris County Jail in 2016, officers told her she could leave immediately if she paid $2,500 in cash bail. In a hearing lasting less than 60 seconds, during which Harris County sheriff’s officers told her…

In their lawsuit, Amada Man and the others argue Senate Bill 315 is unconstitutional.

Dallas County’s Expunction Expo is on its fifth year and has a record number of applicants hoping to get their records expunged.

For the next 28 months, exotic cat rancher Paul Michael Malagerio will be locked up in federal prison for his visa overstay and illegally possessing three firearms.

After 15 minutes inside a Fort Worth cell phone store, a group of robbers walked out with cash and electronics, hopped into a grey Nissan Altima and left the scene. Store employees were left on the floor with their hands zip-tied behind their backs. The robbers knew what they were doing. They’d done it many times before.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton doesn’t like critics. In fact, he blocked many of them on Twitter for blasting him over his policies or poking fun at him. But last week, the Republican official caved in and agreed to unblock Twitter users who he’d previously banished from his account, @KenPaxtonTX…

Marvin Scott III, a 26-year-old Black man, died in Collin County Jail this March. The video of his death was recently released.

On Friday, a McKinney man was sentenced to federal prison after he allegedly used illegal funds to buy jet skis and SUVs.

The Aryan Circle, believed to be the second largest prison gang in Texas, has a long history of violence, including murder, and other crimes, authorities say.

On Thursday, a U.S. Supreme Court decision prompted Texas voting rights advocates to sound the alarm.