A woman accused of kidnapping a Texas mother who was later found dead hatched an elaborate scheme to present the victim's baby girl as her own, according to court records. Last month, investigators found the infant, Margot Carey, along with the body of her mother, Heidi Broussard, at a home in the Houston area.

Reporter Tony Plohetski spent three months interviewing Austin police and officials from the FBI and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives about the string of bombings that terrorized Austin in March 2018. This is part one of a series that provides never-before-released details and the clearest picture yet of authorities' hunt for the Austin serial bomber.

An MMA fighter suspected of killing two people, including an ex-girlfriend, was captured Sunday after escaping from a prisoner transport van in Texas, authorities said. Cedric Marks was taken into custody after a nine-hour manhunt involving multiple law enforcement agencies, Conroe police Lt. Scott Spencer said in a tweet Sunday evening.

Activists praised Houston area law enforcement for pursuing a tip that led to the arrest of an African-American man in the fatal drive-by shooting of a 7-year-old black girl, in an apparent case of mistaken identity. There were initial concerns that the shooting was racially motivated until a tip came from Shaun King, a New York social activist and writer who helped raise a $100,000 reward for information.

George Floyd was fondly remembered Tuesday as “Big Floyd” — a father and brother, athlete and neighborhood mentor, and now a catalyst for change — at a funeral for the black man whose death has sparked a global reckoning over police brutality and racial prejudice. More than 500 mourners wearing masks against the coronavirus packed a Houston church a little more than two weeks after Floyd was pinned to the pavement by a white Minneapolis police officer who put a knee on his neck for what prosecutors said was 8 minutes and 46 seconds.

A man stabbed two people, one fatally, inside a restaurant during a violent string of attacks Friday at a shopping plaza in Texas' capital city that began with an assault at a coffee shop and ended with the suspect leaping off a roof, police said.

A man who prosecutors say was driven by vengeance when he fatally shot six members of his ex-wife's family in Texas, including four children, was sentenced Friday to death, a decision the lone survivor of the attack says will help her let go of "hurt and anger." Jurors sentenced Ronald Lee Haskell after deliberating for little more than four hours. The jury had to choose between life in prison without parole or a death sentence.

Lawyers for Texas asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to overturn most of the state's abortion laws and regulations, arguing Monday that the legal action lacks merit and, when applied to important health and safety protections, borders on frivolous. Many of the attacked rules, which include more than 60 laws and associated regulations, have already been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court and should not have to go through additional scrutiny that will waste time and effort, Assistant Solicitor General Beth Klusmann told U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel.

A shooting at a Texas naval air station that wounded a sailor and left the gunman dead early Thursday was being investigated as “terrorism-related,” the FBI said, but divulged few details as to why. The suspect was identified as Adam Alsahli of Corpus Christi, according to three officials familiar with the investigation who were not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

A black man was arrested and charged with murder in the killing of a 7-year-old black girl in a drive-by shooting that authorities said Sunday appeared to be a case of mistaken identity, not a racially motivated attack, as her family feared.