Texas

At least two people were killed and six more injured as several tornadoes touched down in Texas and Mississippi on Saturday, damaging homes and flipping vehicles as the storm system moved east across Alabama early Sunday.

Millions of people from across the South are under threat of damaging winds, strong tornadoes and hail Saturday as the region braces for more potential destructive storms.

Peyote, a cactus that contains mescaline, a hallucinogen, grows naturally in South Texas and northern Mexico. It is sacred to many Indigenous people, playing a central role in their ceremonies, spiritual practice and medicine.

A Texas medical school suspended its body donation program, major biotech companies responded and lawmakers called for accountability.

Authorities in Texas say law enforcement has fatally shot a fleeing motorist who drove into a JCPenney at a busy shopping mall Saturday. Five bystanders were injured. Sgt. Bryan Washko of the Texas Department of Public Safety says the five are at area hospitals. They range in age from 6 to 75 years old. Washko says chase the pursuit began...

Nearly a dozen of families learned that their relatives’ bodies had been used for medical research not from a medical examiner, hospital or police officer — but from NBC News and Noticias Telemundo.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it was following the orders of an immigration judge and the parents decided for the infants to go to Mexico with her.

An Ellis County detention officer was killed Monday in an attack by an inmate the sheriff describes as a “heinous, horrific, purposeful murder.”

Arlington police are investigating an SUV driver who crashed into a man helping a friend, whose car was stuck in the mud.

A twin-engine propeller plane crashed onto a Texas highway and split in two Wednesday afternoon, scattering debris across the road and sending four people to hospitals, authorities said.

Texas native and winner of ‘The Voice’ Sundance Head survived a freak accident. In an NBC 5 exclusive he opens up about the ordeal that almost stolen his career and his life.

United States and Guatemalan authorities have announced the arrest of six people charged with human smuggling linked to a semi-trailer truck crash in Mexico in 2021 that killed more than 50 migrants.

Three U.S. Army soldiers at Fort Cavazos, Texas, have been arrested on human smuggling charges, U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza for the Western District of Texas said Thursday.

The state’s land commissioner bought a 1,402-acre plot on the Rio Grande and has offered it to the incoming Trump administration for immigrant detention centers.

It’s been 41 years since a Mesquite father gave up his prized possession to pay for diapers. Now years later, his son is looking to make it right.

A death row inmate convicted of killing her toddler daughter is “actually innocent” of murder and should be freed from custody, the prisoner’s trial judge said in documents unearthed on Thursday.

Federal law enforcement officials said Thursday that they stopped a Texas man from carrying out a possible terrorist attack in Houston.

A possible suspect wearing a Halloween Michael Myers mask was seen in the area of a Harris County, Texas, home where a man was found shot to death, authorities said Friday.

The National Park Service didn’t name the hiker. A vehicle left parked for days led to a search that discovered the body.

The search for a missing Texas mother is entering its third week as police continue the investigation into her disappearance.