A jury in Denton County must make a hard choice. Did a 25-year-old man kill his great-aunt to save his own life? Or did he murder the woman who raised him like a son? Adrian Joe Padilla is on trial now. He is charged with capital murder.

State troopers found two stash houses in south Laredo last week. Inside, they found 12 people who crossed the border with no papers. A stash house is a place where smugglers hide people. This happens after they cross the border. Smugglers keep them there. Then they move them deep into

A Randall County grand jury indicted three people this week. The charge is felony murder. A 45 year old Amarillo man named Jeremy Ray died after he was shot. Jontrell Graves, 18, Jaylyn Johnson, 18, and Meghan Kern, 43, now face the charge. All three are locked up in the

Baltimore police want your help. They are still trying to find who shot and killed a man on the east side of the city. Officers found 50-year-old Jarrod McGowan shot in the 900 block of East 20th Street. It happened on Saturday, August 1. He died right there.

A 55-year-old man in England died after a dog bit him. It happened during a fight on a footpath. Police first held the dog's owner on suspicion of murder. Days later, they charged him with a lesser crime. That crime is called manslaughter. The man who

A judge has kicked Pinal County, Arizona off a death penalty case. The case is about four people killed in 2017. Judge Patricia Starr made the call on August 12, 2026. She ruled that Pinal County's own prosecutors cannot work the case anymore. She also ruled that Pinal

A jail phone call broke this case wide open. Bexar County deputies say Martin Sanchez Jr., 58, shot and killed a man on San Antonio's Northeast Side. He said so himself on a recorded jail call. Now he faces a murder charge. The man who died was Andrew

Police in Lexington, Kentucky arrested an 18-year-old after a mass shooting at a park. The shooting killed a 16-year-old boy. It hurt four other people. Jametrius Griffin now faces a murder charge. He also faces four assault charges. He faces one more charge for hiding evidence.

A Bexar County judge told both sides to get ready for trial. The case is the murder charge against Brad Simpson. He is accused of killing his wife, Suzanne Simpson. She was an Olmos Park mom and real estate agent. Suzanne Simpson has been missing since October 2024. Her body

A Brownsville teen got 35 years in prison. He killed a man outside a barber shop in 2024. He was just 16 on the night of the shooting. DA Luis V. Saenz gave the news Monday on Facebook. The teen is Donovan Yandel Martinez Tirado. He is now 17. He

A man stole a Fort Worth ambulance early Thursday. He drove south on Interstate 35 into Austin. Police say he rammed several cars and would not stop. State troopers shot him dead. The chase shut down a big part of I-35. It happened in the middle of the day.

Texas state troopers raided a San Antonio law office on Wednesday. They arrested the man who runs it. His name is Neil Calfas. He is 56 years old. Calfas faces two charges. One is human trafficking. The other is solicitation of prostitution. Texas DPS said it made the arrest. Calfas