Texas Education Agency names new inspector general as educator misconduct reports surge
The position comes after lawmakers passed Senate Bill 571 last year.
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The position comes after lawmakers passed Senate Bill 571 last year.
Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price believes it comes down to better pay.
Allen police arrested 47-year-old skating coach Benjamin Shroats at his home.
A Brazilian au pair got the maximum 10-year sentence after confessing to scheming with her lover to kill his wife and another man.
Oklahoma has carried out its first execution of the year on a man convicted of killing two men in a drive-by shooting.
Kouri Richins allegedly poisoned her husband Eric by putting a fatal dose of fentanyl in his drink, leading to his sudden death in 2022.
Actor Timothy Busfield has been indicted on four counts of criminal sexual contact of a child, officials said Friday.
Ryan Routh, the man convicted in a 2024 assassination attempt of President Trump at his Florida golf course, has been sentenced to life in prison.
Charles "Sonny" Burton faces execution in Alabama for his role in a 1991 robbery in which a man was fatally shot, even though Burton did not fire the gun or witness the killing.
The Dallas Police chief says crime data from 2025 shows that his policies are working.
Police are issuing a warning after a man allegedly stole from customers' credit cards at a McDonald's northwest of Fort Worth.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit, a tipster reported Alexandria Venable to the Tarrant County Crime Stoppers.
During public comment, parents said the lack of communication from the school district has only added to their frustration.
An arrest has been made nearly seven years after an East Texas father and his teenage daughter were killed.
Michael McKee is the ex-husband of Monique Tepe, according to court records obtained by CBS News. Tepe and her husband, Spencer, were shot and killed in Columbus on Dec. 30.
Clay County Sheriff Eddie Scott said the victims were family members related to the suspect. They were shot at three separate locations late Friday. One of the victims was a child.
Timothy Busfield is known for appearances in "The West Wing," "Field of Dreams" and "Thirtysomething."
Expansion and development in and around downtown Dallas have the county keeping quiet about future locations.
Officers in Columbus, Ohio, were dispatched to the couple's home on the morning Dec. 30 for a welfare check and found them dead at the scene.
A celebration at a Dallas club turned violent early New Year's Day when an altercation led to a shooting that injured four people, one of them critically, police said.
A 25-year-old Tarrant County woman has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for recruiting girls into sex trafficking and forcing them to have sex or money, officials said.
Actor Mario Rodriguez alleged in the lawsuit filed last week in California that Tyler Perry sexually assaulted him during encounters between 2014 and 2019.
The father of three insists that he didn't do anything to deserve threatening words and actions by the man he wants to see criminally charged.
A 56-year-old man is dead after fleeing from a traffic stop where officers determined he had warrants for sex-related crimes.
After a teen didn't return from walking her dog, her dad used cellphone data to find her in a secluded area two miles away.
