Allegedly, justices of the peace get into fights too.

Young County Justice of the Peace Jason Hearne is under investigation after a late-night altercation with a teenager at a Whataburger in Graham, Texas. Witnesses say the dispute began inside the ...

The deaths represent a relatively small portion of people in Texas prisons. But Texas Department of Criminal Justice ...

The Dallas County Sheriff's Office and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice created a streamlined inmate pickup program ...

WASHINGTON — (AP) The Department of Justice sued Texas over new redistricting maps Monday, saying the plans discriminate against voters in the state's booming Latino and Black populations. The lawsuit ...

State senators packed into a hearing room at the Texas Capitol in Austin on Tuesday to wrestle with a blunt question: as the ...

Chief Justice Nathan Hecht delivers his State of the Judiciary speech at the Texas Supreme Court in Austin on April 5, 2023. (Leila Saidane/The Texas Tribune, Leila Saidane/The Texas Tribune) Sign up ...

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TEXAS, USA — Behind the walls of five Texas juvenile prisons, the U.S. Justice Department alleges children are being subjected to harsh conditions and physical and emotional abuse. The Justice ...

The charges include one count of organized election fraud, a first-degree felony; 17 counts of unlawful possession of ballots, second-degree felonies; and 17 counts of unlawfully assisting voters ...

When Nathan Hecht ran for the Texas Supreme Court in 1988, no Republican had ever been elected to the state’s highest civil court. His election foreshadowed a coming transformation of the court, civil ...