TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY

A state district court judge in Austin has blocked Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell from intervening in an ongoing lawsuit filed by more than a dozen media organizations against the Texas Department of Public Safety over records from last year’s Uvalde school massacre.

Following a week-long closure caused by a system upgrade, driver’s license offices will reopen for regular business hours statewide on Monday. Online services will also be available.

Anyone with a driver’s license appointment on Thursday morning needs to reschedule their appointment because the Texas Department of Public Safety has canceled it.

Texas Department of Public Safety and the Military Department would not confirm the status of National Guard member who is accused of shooting across the Rio Grande and wounding a man.

The Texas Department of Public Safety’s vehicle inspection system has been down for two days due to an outage, and it’s unknown when repairs will be complete.

Mexican authorities say a Honduran migrant has identified one of the two bodies recovered from the Rio Grande as her son.

Authorities are asking for the public’s help in tracking down a missing 1-year-old boy and a woman wanted in connection with their abduction.

Texas has started rolling out what is set to become a new floating barrier on the Rio Grande.

On the eve of Independence Day, and as roads see more and more traffic, the Texas Department of Public Safety is stepping up its enforcement.

Texas Department of Public Safety officers were criticized for the disparate number of Latino and Black residents arrested during the first iteration of a partnership to help Austin with policing duties.

A 75-year-old man was killed during a shootout with law enforcement officers in Kerr County, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

A woman led law enforcement on a vehicle chase through Medina and Frio counties on Tuesday before barricading herself in a vehicle and shooting herself, a Texas Department of Public Safety official said.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle threw their support behind a new requirement that the unit use only commissioned peace officers for enforcement actions.

Local, state and federal authorities say they are trying to determine a motive behind the fatal shooting of eight people in North Texas on Saturday.

Truckers have reported waiting up to 24 hours to cross the border because of the inspections. Gov. Greg Abbott ordered similar inspections last year to stop smuggling, but troopers found no contraband after checking more than 4,000 vehicles.

A month after the Texas Department of Public Safety began patrolling Austin streets, city officials have both praised a drop in violent crime and condemned the operation’s disparate impact on Latino and Black residents. In 2019, Dallas faced the same challenges.

Texas Department of Public Safety special agents seized over 507,000 lethal doses of fentanyl Thursday, Gov. Greg Abbott’s office said.

The number of road rage shooting fatality and injuries have doubled since 2018, according to a database of gun violence.

The Texas Department of Public Safety was investigating a fatal crash in Odessa on Wednesday morning when a speeding train collided with the truck after a fatal accident near West Murphy and Business 20.

A man was arrested and charged with murder in connection with a cold case over 40 years ago, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Three people are in custody after leading Texas Department of Public Safety troopers on a chase before ramming one of their vehicles, according to DPS.

The Texas Department of Public Safety seized over 3.1 million lethal doses of fentanyl in a South Texas city Monday, according to officials.

The Texas Department of Public Safety has released a pair of videos that show the entire confrontation between a trooper and the mother of one of the Uvalde school shooting victims.

Isabel Franco, 22, was taken into custody by Kinney County Sheriff’s deputies and special agents with the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The lawyers for some of the Uvalde families say there is “a compelling need” for records into the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary to be publicly released.

The Texas Department of Public Safety is warning people against traveling to Mexico amid heightened awareness about abductions and cartel violence.

In its first bill passed this session, the Texas Senate sought to ensure juvenile mental health hospitalizations are reported to the federal firearm background check system.

A Chinese crime operation bypassed the password clues of Texas.gov by using stolen identity information to fraudulently obtain replacement driver’s licenses.

Authorities say a high school student confessed to sending a hoax bomb threat via AirDrop that resulted in an American Airlines flight being diverted from the tarmac at a Texas airport last week.

The Texas Department of Public Safety is instead asking lawmakers for $381.5 million to upgrade its current facilities with better technology, dormitories and cafeteria for trainees from across the state.

The Texas Department of Public Safety has completed its internal investigation of how seven of its troopers responded to the Uvalde school shooting, and none will face additional discipline, the agency confirmed Thursday.

Missing toddler, Aviani Brown, has been located safe. Suspect detained for questioning.

The Converse Police Department is looking for a missing 66-year-old woman who they say poses a credible threat to her own health and safety.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will be at the border on Monday to provide an update on his immigration measures.

Two women were arrested on multiple charges after they led Texas DPS troopers on a high-speed chase that ended in a crash, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Seven people were killed in a deadly wreck, and a young passenger appears to be the only survivor, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Bexar County Sheriff’s Office deputies had to get assistance from a DPS helicopter to find a driver who decided to run following a vehicle crash overnight.

Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission on Thursday unveiled the State of Texas’ new ‘Stop Human Trafficking’ specialty license plate.

The Midland Police Department is searching for a missing 11-month-old girl and a 29-year-old man wanted in connection with her abduction.

Newly obtained video shows Pete Arredondo’s account of the shooting at Robb Elementary in his own words.

The Texas Department of Public Safety is preparing to fire a high-ranking Texas Ranger for his lack of action during the Robb Elementary School shooting response, according to a report from CNN.

Five people believed to be armed and dangerous are on the run after leaving a vehicle involved in a pursuit on Highway 131, according to the Kinney County Sheriff’s Office.

One of Texas’ top 10 most wanted fugitives was arrested last week in San Antonio after being on the run for more than a year.

Where things stand in Uvalde going in to 2023

Women in the Texas Department of Public Safety have described it as a “glass ceiling.”

New audio obtained by CNN shows the Texas Department of Public Safety was made aware that children were trapped in Robb Elementary 30 minutes before the Border Patrol Tactical Unit finally breached the classroom and killed the shooter.

A Texas doctor said Thursday he has been tasked to review the medical information surrounding the 21 victims killed in the Uvalde elementary school shooting “to determine if there was potential to save more lives had medical care been provided sooner.”.

One of Texas’ 10 most-wanted fugitives was captured in the San Antonio area last week, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

A man is dead and another man is recovering in a San Antonio hospital after a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper shot them during a traffic stop in Seguin, according to authorities.

Texas' state police chief says his department did not fail Uvalde during the hesitant law enforcement response to the Robb Elementary School shooting.

The Texas Department of Public Safety fired an officer Friday who was at the scene of the Uvalde school massacre in May.

One of the first Texas Department of Public Safety troopers to arrive at the scene of the Uvalde school mass shooting is being fired by the Texas Department of Public Safety, a law enforcement official briefed on the matter told ABC News.

A Texas Department of Public Safety captain reportedly ordered his officers not to enter Robb Elementary 70 minutes into the 77-minute shooting, according to CNN.

Uvalde school leaders have pulled its embattled campus police force off the job four months after the Robb Elementary School shooting.

New documents released by the Texas Department of Public Safety reveal that Uvalde CISD police officials knew the officer they hired, who previously worked as a trooper and responded to the May 24 massacre, was under investigation.

Officials say a suspect has been arrested for driving erratically through the Texas State Capitol grounds in Austin, leaving a trail of damage.

A Texas Department of Public Safety tooper was hospitalized after being exposed to fentanyl during a vehicle search in Bexar County, state officials reported Tuesday.

The confirmed July 25 referral of DPS officers to the Office of Inspector General for possible disciplinary action is much earlier than the early September date that has been widely reported.

The director of the state’s top law enforcement agency is apologizing on behalf of law enforcement for the botched response to the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde that claimed 21 lives just over three months ago.

The state’s top law enforcement agency also told USA Today that seven officers have now been referred to its internal affairs division, including two who are command staff.

The two victims of a Thursday shooting at Uvalde Memorial Park are being treated in San Antonio hospitals. Abbott’s decision to send in DPS comes as the agency faces questions over its role in the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School.

The AMBER Alert for Sailor Tucker has been discontinued, according to a press release from Texas DPS.

Days after more than a dozed media outlets filed a lawsuit against Texas DPS, there have been questions about why this step is necessary.

KSAT 12 and more than a dozen media organizations on Monday filed a lawsuit in state district court in Austin asking a judge to order the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) to release records regarding the law enforcement response to the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.

The lawsuit alleges that the state police have unlawfully withheld records, including body camera footage and emergency communications, during the Robb Elementary shooting.

Two civil rights groups have expanded their request for a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into Operation Lone Star, citing evidence of risky pursuits and more frequent traffic stops of Hispanic drivers.

Graduation season is year-round and that includes our four-legged friends. Texas DPS announced the six graduates from their Texas Highway Patrol Canine Tracking Operations Program.

Authorities have increased their reward in the search for the person responsible for the killing of a 4-year-old Southeast Texas girl more than 20 years ago.

Saturday Update: Imani Stephens has been found, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

For about three hours, people demanded the resignation of the school district superintendent and threatened to keep their children out of school until campus security is improved.

The full Texas House Investigative Report, as well as hallway and body cam footage from inside Robb Elementary have now been released. However the shooting victims' families are telling their state Senator Roland Gutierrez, that's not enough.

The Texas Department of Public Safety has launched an internal review over the slow response to the Uvalde school massacre.

A report says nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to a mass shooting that left 21 people dead at a Uvalde elementary school.

The mayor of Uvalde is disputing a new report alleging missed chances to quickly end a massacre at a Texas elementary school.

A San Antonio man who issued 215 fraudulent commercial driver’s licenses for about $1,000 each while he worked for the Texas Department of Public Safety has been sentenced to prison.

Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin says he suspects Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw is “covering up” details of the Robb Elementary School massacre.

The Department of Justice is investigating alleged civil rights violations under Operation Lone Star, a multibillion-dollar border initiative announced last year by Gov. Greg Abbott, according to state records obtained by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune.

Gutierrez said there needs to be transparency in the investigation because he doesn’t believe fault for the botched response to the May 24 shooting lies solely with Pete Arredondo.

The McGregor Police Department has discontinued the AMBER Alert for two missing teenagers on Tuesday.

Four immigrants were killed and two were critically injured in what a Texas Department of Public Safety official called “another deadly human smuggling event.”

The Texas Department of Public Safety will create and monitor new checkpoints for trucks entering from Mexico after dozens of migrants died in an abandoned trailer in San Antonio, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday.

Firefighters are working to put out a fire caused by a plane crash near the Kerrville-Kerr County Airport, according to the Kerrville Police Department.

State Senator Roland Gutierrez is suing the Texas Department of Public Safety for access to records related to the massacre at Robb Elementary School.

Steve McCraw testified before a Texas Senate committee, laying blame on local police officers in Uvalde for not acting faster to save children during the school shooting.

UPDATE: Law enforcement authorities had enough officers on the scene of the Uvalde school massacre to stop the gunman three minutes after he entered the building, the Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw testified on Tuesday.

U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro of San Antonio and four other Latino members of Congress sent a letter Friday to Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw requesting all information regarding the Uvalde school shooting be provided in Spanish as well as English.

A Texas state senator says the state agency investigating the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde has determined that the commander facing criticism for the slow police response was not carrying a radio as the massacre unfolded.

The police official blamed for not sending officers in more quickly to stop the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting is the chief of the school system’s small police force, a unit dedicated ordinarily to building relationships with students.

There were clues on social media that indicated Uvalde school shooter, Salvador Ramos, 18, was planning something sinister.

Following days of often-conflicting information from Texas authorities regarding the chain of events in Tuesday’s massacre in Uvalde, the Department of Public Safety released a timeline amid criticism.

Texas has been using coronavirus relief money to help pay for the multibillion-dollar deployment.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection called the state inspections ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott “unnecessary” and said commercial traffic at the Texas-Mexico border has dropped 60% since they began.

The Texas Rangers targeted vehicle and currency seizure logs late last year in connection to an investigation of Real County Sheriff Nathan Johnson, search warrants released this week by the Texas Department of Public Safety confirm.

Brooke Crowder said The Refuge is working to incorporate a deeper employee screening process with the help of a company recommended by the governor’s and attorney general’s offices.

Police in Franklin, Texas, are searching for a 12-year-old girl who was allegedly abducted by a 35-year-old woman.

A San Antonio man who was on the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list has been arrested.

San Antonio police released a digital postmortem sketch of a woman found dead in late 2020 in an effort to identify her.

The Parker County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a missing 82-year-old man with a diagnosed cognitive impairment who was last seen on Monday morning.