Texas youth prison lockdown criticized in state oversight report
The report follows the sudden resignation of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department's director and a days-long lockdown at all five of the state's youth prisons.
The report follows the sudden resignation of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department's director and a days-long lockdown at all five of the state's youth prisons.
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An underage suspect reportedly stabbed a man during an argument on Thursday night.
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Sharper Image-Branded Tabletop Fire Pits and Sharper Image-Branded Tabletop Infinity Fire Pits were pulled from store shelves and were sold at various retailers including Amazon, Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Walmart....
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K9 Morgan served the Arkansas Department of Corrections for 13 years before he passed away.
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HUNTR/X is hitting the road. The "KPop Demon Hunters" Golden World Tour will bring Rumi, Mira and Zoey to nearly 50 cities beginning in 2027. Here’s what to know....
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Houston’s Rice University is among 30 colleges and universities named in a federal civil rights complaint alleging a graduate recruitment program could be helping schools circumvent the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling against race-based college admissions. The complaint, filed Thursd...
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A male victim was pronounced deceased was he was found shot Friday morning.
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A driver whose pickup truck plowed onto a youth soccer field, killing a young boy and a father, will not face criminal charges following an investigation, prosecutors announced....
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Texas Democrats filed legislation ahead of the 2027 legislative session to expand Medicaid. Medicaid experts said if that passes, Texas would be expanding in a much different environment than other states....
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A Texas man was sentenced to more than a decade in prison last week for shipping thousands of packages of drugs across the country.
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A part of Sugar Land history is still waiting for its own preservation efforts to take shape: the 95 graves for African-American prison laborers subjected to the state’s convict-leasing system after the Civil War and forced to labor on the area's sugar cane plantations....
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BMW owners of certain model vehicles manufactured between 2012 and 2018 are urged to park them outside and away from buildings.
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Houston’s ROCO is making history this weekend with a first-of-its-kind performance at one of the city’s newest cultural landmarks. The chamber orchestra will become the first orchestra to perform at the Ismaili Center Houston during its concerts on Saturday, Nov. 14, and Sunday, ...
