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Texas Department of Public Safety officers continue to find missing children and arrest those on its criminal illegal ...

Texas Department of Public Safety officials say a 12-year-old boy is dead after a crash involving a car and an ATV.

Texas Department of Public Safety officials say one woman is dead following a crash just east of Shamrock on Thursday.

TEXAS (KAUZ) - 40 years after committing sex crimes against two young girls, 62-year-old David Roy Mundt was sentenced to ...

56-year-old David Rogers and 42-year-old Rodolfo Martinez Jr. were arrested on April 28 and 29, respectively. Both Rogers and ...

Police are searching for Terry Jeter, a 43-year-old white man, in connection with Beach’s abduction, the alert from DPS said.

Texas DPS provides specialized IPC training to recruits for child protection during Child Abuse Prevention Month.

The Texas Department of Public Safety K‑9 Tracking Teams and Mounted Patrol tracked down 3 migrants from Mexico in Webb ...

Authorities say millions of coins spilled onto a Texas highway this week after a tractor-trailer hauling $800,000 in dimes ...

The man responsible for sex crimes against two young girls in Texas and Arizona will now spend the rest of his life behind bars. Nearly 40 years after the first of the two crimes was committed, a Rusk ...

A crash Tuesday morning left millions of dimes scattered across the highway in Texas' Wise County and closed down southbound ...