“We know the best location is adjacent to the jail,” said Smith County Judge Neal Franklin. The jail study presented to the court recommends the addition of more than 500 beds, a new clinic, and the ...

Costs continue to mount to house inmates in the Bexar County Adult Detention Center. The crowded facility is now bracing for the summer months when criminal arrests and incarcerations tend to rise.

Glenn Earl Smallwood Jr., 33, died just hours after being booked into the county jail on a public intoxication charge.

Willie Lee Logan III, of Texas City, was given 60 years in prison for the murder of Vincent Baugh, a 23-year-old father of two. The shooting happened on April 19, 2019 on Heard's Lane near Offatts ...

The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office said the suspect took his son by force and sped away in a car with the baby in his lap.

A North Texas man is in jail after kidnapping his one-year-old baby and leading deputies on a high-speed chase, TCSO says.

When oversight laws are ignored or transparency is lacking, it sends the wrong message that accountability is optional.” ...

The family of Glenn Earl Smallwood Jr., a U.S. Army veteran who needed immediate medical attention but was instead taken to ...

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Peterson, in Minneapolis for the Vikings’ draft party, registered blood alcohol content at nearly twice the legal limit.

The Bexar County District Attorney’s Office has dropped a murder charge on a San Antonio-area teen who was once a Texas Top ...