A diversion center would enable us to meet the mental health needs of offenders, reduce recidivism and decrease capacity ...

Felony jail cases of inmates awaiting indictment has never been part of the district attorney’s office backlog, DA Joe Gonzales writes.

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Online records are offering more information about what deputies are calling a murder-suicide in northeast Bexar County Sunday evening. Dispatch records show first responders were told to go to the ...

A Bexar County judge sentenced Jer Auntey Pleasant to four concurrent 50-year prison terms after he was convicted in connection with two 2023 murders and two other violent crimes.

SAN ANTONIO — A Bexar County District Attorney's Office employee was found dead Sunday evening in an apparent murder-suicide, according to the sheriff's office. Deputies were called to the 2500 block ...

In the days since the Texas primary, both parties are trying to make sense of what it all means for their November prospects.

Judge Ron Rangel, who presides over Bexar County’s 379th Criminal District Court, sentenced Carl Mott, 62, to 70 years in ...

SAN ANTONIO - A Bexar County judge has sentenced Nathan Franklin to life in prison for the murder of Johnny Johnson.Judge ...

A court-documented history of family violence didn’t bar the suspect in the West Sixth Street shooting from owning guns under Texas law.

A Clark County District Court judge on Tuesday dismissed 24 misdemeanor criminal cases because the county failed to provide public defenders to represent the indigent defendants. The dismissals by ...

A Texas-based career criminal with a lengthy rap sheet is behind bars in Travis County after he was charged with murdering a father of five outside a 7-Eleven in Austin, reviving scrutiny of Travis ...