Justice

Houston police say DNA evidence will prove they have the right suspect. But once they secure a confession, the forensic investigation stops.

Gun rights groups rarely stand up for Black licensed gun owners.

Harris County, Texas, has sent more people to death row than anywhere else in the nation. Among them is a man named Charles Raby.

The government wants to keep juries from seeing gruesome evidence of animals in distress — the very reason activists are going into farms.

A Texas judge ruled that the state’s arrests of migrants caught crossing the border is an unconstitutional encroachment on federal authority.

On a color-coded map, land belonging to Native tribes that opposed the Line 3 pipeline were marked in red — areas of "threat" to the bottom line.

Of the 17 maintenance code violations issued last year, two were related to broken or defective fire retardant material. One of those remains listed as open.

The fire, New York's deadliest in decades, shows why pandemic-era housing policy Band-Aids aren't enough.

The D.C. Council wants answers about the Metropolitan Police Department’s growing, secretive gang database.

One county prosecutor asked oil company Enbridge for reimbursement to help with some of the prosecutions clogging up rural courts.