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This year marks 30 years since the murder of Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla Perez. 2025 also marks the year her convicted killer is eligible for parole.

Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales has tapped Assistant District Attorney Nicole Thornbro to lead the new Public Integrity and Civil Rights Division.

The new DA campaigned on seeking the death penalty for the 2019 massacre, but said he offered the gunman a plea deal of life in prison to avoid dragging out the case for several more years.

Supporters say diversity initiatives close educational and income gaps born from a history of prejudice. Republican officials say they prioritize identity over merit.

People in Maverick County spend months in jail waiting to be charged with minor crimes. Some are simply lost in the system

The removal of the death penalty as an option could lead to a quick guilty plea and life sentence, as happened with federal charges in 2023.

A man who confessed to murdering his girlfriend in 2023 was sentenced to 40 years in prison Monday after accepting a plea deal. For the victim’s family, they believe the punishment falls far short of delivering justice.

A woman has accepted a plea deal after driving the wrong way on Interstate 10 while intoxicated, according to the Kendall County Criminal District Attorney’s Office.

After years of setbacks and delays, a retrial date was set for the man accused in the capital murder of his wife’s grandmother in 2015.

Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.

The attorney general office’s lawsuit is based on an undercover video published in February by a conservative activist group.

A Bexar County judge set a date for a motion to quash the indictment of Brad Simpson, the Olmos Park man charged with murdering his wife last year.

A 20-year-old New Braunfels man was sentenced to more than six years in prison Wednesday for planning mass murder attacks, according to a U.S. Department of Justice press release.

A federal jury found two men accused in the 2022 migrant smuggling tragedy along Quintana Road in San Antonio guilty on Tuesday afternoon.

Several charges filed against cannabis attorney Daniel Michael Mehler were dismissed on Monday, court records show.

After more than two years of legal back-and-forth, former San Antonio police officer James Brennand is set to go to trial next month for the 2022 shooting of a then-teenager outside a McDonald’s.

The case could establish the nation’s first independent repository for spent nuclear fuel in West Texas, despite the objections of state leaders.

Testimony began Tuesday for two men accused of being key figures in a human smuggling operation linked to what federal officials have called the deadliest case of human trafficking incident in U.S. history.

Martin Garcia, who brutally stabbed his ex-wife Teresa Garcia 95 times in December 2023, was sentenced to 45 years in prison as part of a plea deal.

A woman accused in the February 2020 murder of her 70-year-old grandmother was found guilty by a Bexar County judge.

A woman accused of killing her 70-year-old grandmother took the stand Thursday, claiming she acted under the influence of psychosis and hallucinations.