Law Enforcement

Three weeks after a Blue Alert was issued for a man wanted in the shooting of a police chief in Memphis, Texas, Seth Altman was arrested by law enforcement officials in Fort Worth. KERA's Miranda Suarez reports Tarrant County has made its first conviction under the state's new fentanyl overdose murder law, which allows prosecutors to seek murder charges against people who give someone else a fatal dose of fentanyl.

The Department of Public Safety's alert early Friday about a suspect in the Panhandle went statewide — and riled some sleepy Austinites.

After a person was seriously injured in a shooting at a Lubbock game room Wednesday morning, a call for tighter regulations on the venues has resurfaced. And Congressman Jodey Arrington introduced an amendment that would defund plans to expand conservation efforts in the United States, including protections for up to 700,000 acres at the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge.

The number of child abuse and neglect cases reported in Lubbock County has decreased for the first time in a decade. This could be following a nationwide trend, but some say it’s only because of a definition change.

A 22-year-old is now in custody after repeatedly firing shots that killed one law enforcement officer and injured four others from a Levelland home he was…

S2N3: Jafar Abdullah brought three books to read lakeside at his neighborhood park. The top about the history of Islam, the bottom about poverty. In the middle is “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander—a book that came highly recommended by one of Abdullah's mentors. The 2012 book equates the mass incarceration of Black Americans to a class system that can affect generations—an issue Abdullah thinks about often—especially when he’s working with kids through the mentorship program he started.