Travis County

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued two of the state’s largest counties to block efforts to register voters ahead of the November general election, drawing claims of voter suppression from state Democrats.

A Travis County prosecutor said Tuesday he is asking the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to reverse the governor’s pardon of a former Army sergeant who was convicted of fatally shooting a Black Lives Matter demonstrator.

After a police chase captured on camera for the now-canceled real-time police television series “Live PD,” a Black motorist was shot multiple times with a stun gun and died. Two former Texas deputies have been found not guilty in this case.

Austin Police arrested a man after an attack that investigators are now calling a hate crime.

Austin police arrested a man after an attack that investigators are now calling a hate crime. For the first time, the victim and his family are sharing their story. NBC 5’s Tahera Rahman sat down with them today.

A Travis County judge ruled Kate Cox could have an abortion to save her ability to give birth again. However, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the state supreme court to step in, believing she is not exempt from the state’s near total abortion ban. We learned Monday from Cox’s lawyers that she has left the state to get an...

A man suspected of killing six people earlier this week in a shooting rampage across central Texas was confronted by police in August.

A Texas jury on Friday sentenced a woman to 90 years in prison for the May 2022 shooting death of rising professional cyclist Anna “Mo” Wilson in a case that sent investigators on a 43-day international search for the killer.

A jury in Austin has convicted a 35-year-old woman of murder in the May 2022 shooting death of rising professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in a case that led investigators on a 43-day international search for the killer.

The murder trial of a Texas woman charged in the May 2022 shooting death of rising professional cyclist Anna “Mo” Wilson is nearing an end after almost two weeks of testimony.

A murder trial in Texas is underway in the fatal shooting of pro cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson. Kaitlin Armstrong faces up to 99 years in prison in the May 2022 slaying.

The son of a Buc-ee’s co-founder and SMU student, Mitchell Wasek, is facing 28 counts of invasive visual recordings for allegedly capturing secret videos of individuals in Dallas. NBC 5’s Meredith Yeomans reports.

According to an arrest affidavit, in May, a group of friends visiting Wasek at his family’s home on Lake Travis, “Discovered that a charging port plugged into the wall of their assigned bathroom … contained a hidden camera.”

An Oklahoma judge was arrested in Austin last week after authorities say he opened fire on parked vehicles while out driving and crashed into one of them.

A Texas man who was convicted of killing an 8-year-old girl in the 1980s and then run out of several towns following his early release from prison has been indicted on two new murder charges, including one that could carry the death penalty, prosecutors announced Friday.

Texas women with complicated pregnancies, including those with fatal fetal diagnoses, are exempt from the state’s abortion bans after a Travis County court issued a temporary injunction Friday evening.