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A semitruck driver died Thursday morning when his vehicle rear-ended another semitruck and overturned in Nolan County. The Texas Department of Public Safety said in a preliminary crash report that ...

A rollover crash in Terry County left a Lubbock woman dead early Thursday morning, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Andrew Taake was one of more than 1,500 people pardoned by President Donald Trump last month for crimes related to the 2021 ...

Brazos County deputies helped Texas DPS arrest Mickel Knight, 43, following a pursuit through Leon and Madison counties.

Newly obtained numbers from the Department of Public Safety show that the agency hasn’t made many arrests of suspected Tren de Aragua gang members ...

A Houston man considered a fugitive by Harris County authorities after being released from federal prison following Donald ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — In April of last year, 24-year-old Cristian Rangel’s body was found in the greenbelt near a southeast Austin ...

The Normangee school district issued a precautionary lockdown of campuses around the same time as the pursuit, but DPS ...

California and Texas have the biggest and second biggest economies in the Union respectively despite pronounced political ...

The six operations, which took place at multiple locations throughout Lubbock, including two massage parlors, resulted in the ...

A Lubbock resident, 50-year-old Jessica Hernandez who was the passenger in the vehicle, died in a crash on US 62 in Terry ...