Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) can’t require prosecutors in the state’s biggest counties to give him investigative ...

In Texas, figuring out whether a private citizen can make an arrest is a complicated question. Generally, however, the answer is yes, but the law is very limited, according to Texas criminal defense ...

The Fort Worth-based organization that runs Texas’ refugee resettlement operations has sued the federal government demanding it release $36 million in funding that has been held up since January.

District attorneys in Harris, El Paso and other counties say some cases, including murders, have been hobbled or lost because witnesses were detained, deported or too scared to come to court.

Jeff Blackburn’s rough road to redemption and an unconventional kind of legal superstardom in the rough-and-tumble world of Texas criminal justice reform began the day his fifth wife committed suicide ...

Abbott said he believes the new statewide prosecutor is needed because some Texas district attorneys are not prosecuting ...

The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

A Texas law that criminalizes abortion went into effect in August 2022, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Under the law, physicians who provide abortions can be charged with a first ...