Texas

A teenage girl, Susan Mize, has been arrested for setting up her own father to be carjacked at gunpoint.

A funeral home is forced to pay £5.7m ($8 million) compensation after losing a woman's body and then blaming the woman's ex-boyfriend and an employee who was "into Satan".

"First, we were approached by a manager who let us know that customers were very distressed by my shirt and that children might see it," Andy wrote on Facebook.

Probe launched into death of 26-year-old Byron Jones, killed working at Genan plant in Sheldon, Texas.

Benjamin Lawrence Petty, 36, of Spencer, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 15 years on probation after he accepted rape charges and a plea deal was arranged.

As the Tide Pod challenge continues to be a terrifying teen trend, one baker in Texas has made a tongue-in-cheek pan dulce version of the detergent capsules.

A high school substitute teacher is accused of performing oral sex on a male student while the student slept.

Jefferson Country police arrested the inmate when he attempted to run back to prison with banned goods.

Students having breakfast scatter as enraged ex-boyfriend opens fire with semi-automatic weapon at Texas high school.

Sharon Jones, Cecila McDonald, and Cedric Jones Jr, pleaded guilty to felony family violence aggravated assault on a 13-year-old family member who was 8 months pregnant.

Sandra Garner, 55, called police saying her husband, Jon Garner, 42, had been shot dead by a masked intruder in Maypearl, Texas, on 2 January.

A Texas man with his social security number tattooed on his forehead is wanted by police for stealing cigarettes from a convenience store in 2017.

Texas authorities horrified to discover boy was forced to live in squalor of a 'meth house'.

Arrest came months after Stephen Paddock masacred 58 people from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas.

Police in Houston, Texas, say Kenneth Wayne Lockings Jr. murdered his girlfriend Aracely Jernigan by nearly decapitating her with a samurai sword.

Lndy Lou Layman is facing a criminal mischief charge after she allegedly tore down paintings and smashed sculptures when her date with Anthony Buzbee went off the rails.

A Washington DC teacher is accusing United Airlines of bumping her from her first class seat to upgrade US Representative Sheila Jackson Lee.

Police in Houston say that the 28-year-old Erika Jisela Miranda-Alvarez killed a 33-year-old mother and kidnapped her daughter after allegedly going through a miscarriage.

27-year-old Sierra Tarbutton was sentenced to five years in jail after posting videos to Snapchat showing her firing a gun out of a moving car in Houston, Texas.

Texas deputies discovered 15 stolen Michael Kors purses in the vehicle of a woman arrested for a hit and run. They were worth $4,700 and were taken from a Macy's store.

The autopsy report confirmed that Natasha Dauzat died from at least 43 knife wounds and other "sharp-force injuries, including decapitation."

When an Uber driver picked up a girl in distress she decided to lift her spirits by taking her for a night on the tiles.

Chandler Self was leading the women's division of the BMW Dallas Marathon on 10 December when she began to collapse 200 yards from the finish line.

It snowed in Houston, Texas for the first time in 8 years. While the snow isn't that rare in the north of the state, the South just enjoyed a rare occasion to have a bit of fun.

Genene Jones, a former nurse suspected of killing up to 60 infants in Texas, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges relating to five children in the early 1980s.

Lisa Marie Garcia faces jail after Texas police say she created fake online accounts on Facebook to make it look like her ex-boyfriend was threatening her life.

The boy's parents dismissed the claim as "he doesn't speak at all", and has "the mental capacity of a one-year-old".

A four-year-old Texas boy, Camden, born without arms or legs yells, "I'm walking", as he takes his first steps in an emotional video posted by his mother.

Police said they found the weapons and the clothes the suspects were seen wearing in the video footage inside the vehicles parked near the house.

Julia Poff, 46, from Brookshire, Texas, is charged with sending explosives made from a cigarette packet and a salad dressing cap to Obama and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in 2016.