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The Texas Legislature is considering a bill that would give some women who kill their children a legal defense. Under a proposed legislative measure, Texas would become the first state to have an infanticide law. Democratic state representative Jessica...

By the time the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas ruled on Cesar Fierro's request for a new trial in 1996, it was clear his confession had been obtained under disturbing circumstances. Nearly everyone involved with the case had come to agree that Fierro...

Debbie Shaw keeps a scrapbook that is unlike most others you will see. The memory book details every moment since a dark night in 1986, when the single mother was raped in her own home. "He said shut up or I will kill you." Numerous letters to parole...

Tami Carmichael broke down in tears talking about the devastating moment her husband found their 13-year old son, Jon hanging in their Joshua Barn. "I could hear him all the way in the house screaming, no Jon, no Jon." Carmichael says the 8th-grader,...

The eye-opening scenes can be found everywhere on the internet. On YouTube, a video shows a San Antonio bus driver slamming into an SUV, after being distracting by texting. All of it has fueled the push to ban texting behind the wheel. The federal...

   Immigration will once again be a hot topic in the upcoming legislative session.  More than a dozen bills have already been filed as some state lawmakers are tired of waiting for the Federal Government to reform immigration.     In 2006, throngs of...

You may remember Josiah Sutton who spent four years in prison for a rape he didn't commit. Then there was George Rodriguez who spent seventeen years behind bars for a rape he didn't commit. They are just two Texans who have been wrongly locked up,...

UNT junior Josh Perkins carries his licensed, concealed handgun almost everywhere the law allows. But that doesn't include school, the one place he'd really like to have it. Josh Perkins says, "The same reason I carry it anywhere else. It's not an issue...

On Tuesday, September 1, a lot of new laws go on the books, and many of them could impact your life. For the first time in Texas, everyone in a vehicle will have to wear a seat belt, not just those in the front seat. Even passenger vans are covered by...

A look at some bills that made it, and some that didn't, in the regular session of the 81st Texas Legislature, which ends Monday. --- PASSED, SIGNED INTO LAW BY GOV. RICK PERRY -Wrongful Convictions: Increases compensation for those who were...

When the Chicago Tribune published the story last March of Shaquanda Cotton, the 14-year-old black girl from Paris, Texas, who was imprisoned for shoving a hall monitor at her high school, the article quickly provoked a national civil rights scandal...

The acting executive director of the scandal-plagued Texas juvenile corrections system is reviewing the case of a troubled teenage girl from the small east Texas town of Paris whose prison sentence was extended for assaulting a guard despite mitigating...