Texas lawmakers are pushing more than 100 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and prisons whose populations have continued to grow after dipping significantly ...

The Texas Department of Public Safety announced last week that it had opened a criminal investigation into Sanchez. The two new charges were for Class C misdemeanor assault and interference with ...

Texas senators look into allowing ‘abusive’ students to be arrested, expelled to jail and in some cases charged with ...

(Rebecca Slezak / Staff Photographer) Texas teachers have made it clear ... state to a system where police could issue students Class C misdemeanors for school-related offenses, which could ...

Four counties in East Texas have been placed under a burn ban as the spread of wildfires increase. East Texas ...

TEXARKANA, Texas - We've all seen people asking for ... Violating a city ordinance is a Class "C" misdemeanor. The Texarkana panhandling ordinance is decades old. “I suspect it had to do with ...