Texas

The former Fort Worth Police Department officer who fired into a home, killing Atatiana Jefferson, has been charged with murder.

A white police officer who killed a black woman inside her Texas home while responding to a neighbor's call about an open front door "didn't have time to perceive a threat" before he opened fire, an attorney for the woman's family said.   

With nowhere to actually hide the sizable parcel, the driver still dutifully followed the instructions as best as they could.

Brown, who was a featured witness in the Amber Guyger murder trial, was shot to death at the Atera apartments on Cedar Springs Road on Friday night.

A girl with cerebral palsy amazed her mother by taking her first steps without the help of her walker on Friday.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a complaint with the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct on Thursday, saying it was inappropriate for Judge Tammy Kemp to give Amber Guyger her Bible and read a passage from it.

The brother of Botham Jean, the black man who was shot and killed by a white Dallas police officer who said she mistook the victim’s apartment for her own, embraced the woman Wednesday after she was sentenced to a decade in prison.

A white Dallas police officer who said she mistook a neighbor’s apartment for her own and fatally shot him in his living room was sentenced Wednesday to a decade in prison in a stunning courtroom scene that included the dead man’s brother and the black judge embracing the sobbing officer.

The fate of Amber Guyger is now in the hands of a Dallas County jury.

A school bus driver in Texas is being praised for going above and beyond for the students on his route.

Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger told the jury on Friday that she perceived Botham Jean to be a threat and chose to confront that threat with deadly force.

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