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Seven human services employees were fired after a string of fraud and theft — and the largest data breach in agency history.

A Purcell man convicted of murdering and trying to decapitate a 10-year-old girl is asking for mercy.

Law enforcement officials say arresting homeless people for minor crimes like trespassing and vandalism will not help reduce homelessness. Experts say it will cost a lot of tax dollars and actually makes homelessness worse.

The court ruled Dallas County prosecutors shouldn't have used videos of a Greenville man rapping about drugs, weapons and not snitching about crimes to make their case against him in a 2019 capital murder trial.

A jury in Dallas convicted Lisa Dykes of murder and tampering with evidence Wednesday in the 2020 killing of Marisela Botello-Valadez. The verdict followed a seven-day trial.

The sentencing comes after a Travis County judge refused to grant him a new trial.

A gunman killed eight people at the outlet mall in Allen on Saturday — before a police officer killed the shooter. Mourners gathered for a vigil outside the mall on Sunday.

A state program is meant to help Nebraskans who have been raped, abused, assaulted, or family members reeling from the death of a loved one. It’s helping very few of them, a Flatwater Free Press analysis shows.

Seven people have been found dead in Okmulgee County following an AMBER Alert sent Monday morning, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has confirmed.

The report examined 2019 arrest data, finding that many people arrested for low-level offenses could have been given a citation instead. It also found arrests disproportionately impacted Black Texans.