Law Enforcement

Ten years after Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the bathtub at her home in Houston, her lawyer says he’s “optimistic” she’ll be released from a state mental hospital after a recommitment hearing in November.

The Texas State Senate has confronted one of the GOP's priority issues by passing a bill designed to make it easier for law officers to corral illegal immigrants.

A north Texas woman who claims to "have visions" is defending herself in the controversy that started when she called the Liberty County Sheriff's Department claiming bodies were buried in a mass grave outside of Liberty.

A frantic search for bodies at a rural home in Liberty County turned out to be a wild goose chase.  It took only two phone calls from someone claiming to be a "psychic" to bring local, county, state and federal officers to the scene, along with dozens of news reporters, but they found nothing.

A West Point cadet from Houston has filed a lawsuit against soul singer Patti LaBelle, her bodyguards and Bush Intercontinental Airport, claiming  her bodyguards beat him viciously for standing too close to her luggage.

There are more than 400 people buried in the Harris County Pauper's Cemetery just outside Houston who've never been identified.  Forensic Anthropologists are using state of the art forensic technology to identify some of them, and, it is hoped, figure out how and why they died.

Six of the seven defendants in the infamous Mineola child sex ring will walk out of jail free soon. In a plea bargain with Smith County prosecutors, they pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of Injury to a Child, and they'll go free because the judge gave them credit for the time they've been in jail since 2005 facing charges of sexually abusing children.

With hot summer weather getting closer every day, police and child safety experts are pleading with parents to never EVER leave their children alone in a car.  This appeal brings back terrible and painful memories in Lufkin, where a three month old baby girl died last summer in a car parked outside her father's place of work.  Her father forgot his infant daughter was in the car.