Law Enforcement

A south Texas sheriff says a shooting that injured one of his deputies was the first indisputable case of spillover violence from the Mexican drug wars in his County.

Officials at the Texas Workforce Commission say they're getting reports that scam artists are targeting people who're drawing unemployment benefits, and are tricking them into giving them their personal information.

State and local law officers located and destroyed a large field of marijuana in a heavily wooded area in Liberty County last weekend.  It was the second such growing site found in the county in recent weeks.

The parents of three children, who gave each of them Nazi names, including Adolf Hitler, have finally lost custody of all three kids. On Thursday, a New Jersey appeals court ruled that the children, who have been in foster care, should not be returned to the couple due to evidence of domestic violence in the home. The court has returned the case to family court for further reconsideration. Read Mo

A Pasadena man has learned one of life's lessons the hard way.  He learned what can happen when a man fools around on his wife while he's off working in another town.

Teresa Culpepper wasn’t surprised to see the police at her door. The Atlanta woman had called them to report her truck stolen, but when they arrested her for assault instead, she was terribly confused.

Motorists stuck in traffic, behind a school bus that's loading or unloading children,  and in such a big hurry they're thinking about going around that bus, would be wise to take a deep breath, count to ten and think again.  A Department of Public Safety officer may be watching. This initiative is part of National School Bus Safety Week, which runs through Friday Oct 21.

Well, this is humiliating. Thieves using bolt cutters were able to force their way into a supposedly secure building earlier Thursday morning and steal 21 MP-5 submachine guns and 12 large caliber handgun from the Los Angeles police department’s prestigious SWAT unit.