The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has announced the arrest of two individuals from the state's 10 Most Wanted list. Jrdon Mykel Joe, a 23-year-old from

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday morning asked the Texas Department of Public Safety, or DPS, to deploy tactical strike teams to "support the Trump Administration’s homeland security operations to locate and arrest criminal illegal immigrants in the state.

Two on Texas' Most Wanted Criminal Illegal Immigrants List were arrested in Houston and Mesquite for charges including indecency with a child and sexual assault.

While Houstonians were sheltered in place, Hamon Brown spotted an officer doing donuts in a marked cruiser in an empty parking lot. He posted it to his Facebook and didn't expect it to collect the millions of views it did.

An AMBER Alert was issued for missing 8-year-old Patrick Killian from Texas, with authorities seeking information.

Nicholas J. Ganjei has been appointed as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, announced Acting Attorney General James McHenry. Ganjei expressed his excitement and

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As part of a nationwide crackdown against immigrants who may be in the U.S. without legal status, agents took to several Texas cities Sunday.

Two cases of measles have been confirmed in school-aged children in West Texas less than two weeks after the highly contagious respiratory illness was also reported in a pair of Houston residents. The children are residents of Gaines County who have not received the vaccine that protects against measles,

Friday, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) captured two more fugitives from Texas' 10 Most Wanted Criminal Illegal Immigrants List. Jorge Dionicio Hernandez and Omar David Zavala were arrested earlier today in Houston and Mesquite,

The state has vowed to assist the president in his efforts to revamp immigration. But the state’s biggest cities and school districts are more reluctant to help.