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A 79-year-old inmate who says he killed 93 women as he moved around the country for nearly four decades offered his confession to a Texas Ranger. In a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, Ranger James Holland tells how he got Samuel Little — who the FBI on Monday said is the most prolific

A witness in the murder trial of a white Dallas police officer who fatally shot her black neighbor has been killed in a shooting, the Dallas Morning News reported, citing authorities. The newspaper reported that authorities said Joshua Brown was shot and killed Friday in Dallas. The 28-year-old Brown lived in the same apartment complex

A union for Texas troopers is suing the state over a new policy that limits the size officers’ waistlines. The Department of Public Safety now requires male officers’ waistlines to be slimmer than 40 inches. Women’s waists must measure 35 inches or less. While troopers have always been subject to fitness standards, the president of

A mounted Galveston police officer said “this is gonna look really bad” shortly before he escorted a handcuffed man down the street by a line. The comment was heard on body camera footage released Wednesday by the Galveston Police Department at the end of an administrative review of the controversial August 3 arrest. The department

A missing Amarillo baby who was believed to be in danger has now been found. The Amarillo Police Department said officers located 3-month-old Jamila Franklin and 24-year-old Aliyah Moore. Police say the child is safe and unharmed. A statewide Amber Alert had been issued for baby Jamila, who went missing early Thursday morning. Jamila was

Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was sentenced on Wednesday to serve 10 years in prison for the fatal 2018 killing of an innocent man she shot when she mistakenly entered his apartment believing it was her own. But in a remarkable act of kindness, the brother of the victim took the witness stand and

(Editor’s note: Click here to WATCH the moment the brother of murder victim Botham Jean hugs and forgives ex-Dallas officer Amber Guyger after she was sentenced to 10-years in prison.) A former Dallas police officer was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for killing her black neighbor in his apartment, which she said she

(Editor’s note: Click here to WATCH the moment the brother of murder victim Botham Jean hugs and forgives ex-Dallas officer Amber Guyger after she was sentenced to 10-years in prison.) Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger insisted on the witness stand that her shooting of an unarmed black man in his apartment was “not about

A Dallas resident who fatally shot a backyard intruder and then went back to bed has been charged with murder, according to police. The homeowner, James Michael Meyer, said he didn’t know whether he struck the person, so he went back to bed and didn’t call police, according to an arrest warrant released by the

A white former Dallas police officer who said she fatally shot her unarmed, black neighbor after mistaking his apartment for her own was found guilty of murder on Tuesday. A jury reached the verdict in Amber Guyger’s high-profile trial for the killing of Botham Jean after six days of witness testimony but just a handful

A mother in distress called police. Her son had refused to take his mental-health medication. He was delusional about a government conspiracy against him and had threatened to end his own in life in a shootout with police. When Amarillo police officers arrived at her home the night of February 7, 2011, they found what

The first week is over in the trial of an off-duty police officer charged with killing a man in his own apartment in Dallas, and more details have emerged in the case that made headlines and sparked outrage nationwide. Amber Guyger is accused of entering the apartment of 26-year-old Botham Jean last year and fatally

A sheriff’s deputy described as “a trailblazer” because he was the first Sikh deputy of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office when he joined the force 10 years ago, was shot and killed while making a traffic stop near Houston. Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal, 42, was pronounced dead at Memorial Hermann Hospital after the 12:45 p.m. Friday

West Texas authorities late Friday afternoon announced the arrest of a “possible serial gunman” in the Odessa area after four similar shootings, one of them deadly, occurred this week. The Ector County Sheriff, who didn’t immediately release the suspect’s name, had urged residents to be “cautious” and report any suspicious behavior to 911. All of

A former Dallas police officer says she was “scared to death” when she opened what she thought was her apartment door last year and saw a silhouetted figure standing in the darkness inside. Amber Guyger wept in court as she testified Friday in her murder trial in the killing last September of Botham Jean, who

The judge in the murder trial of a white Dallas police officer who fatally shot her black neighbor in his apartment blocked the lead investigator from telling jurors Wednesday that he didn’t think the shooting was a crime. David Armstrong of the Texas Department of Public Safety testified for a second day in Amber Guyger’s

A Texas inmate who claimed he was intellectually disabled was executed Wednesday for fatally stabbing his two stepsons during an attack more than 12 years ago in their Dallas home that also left his wife dead. Robert Sparks, 45, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the September 2007 slayings of