KATY, Texas (KTRK) — A Texas teenager is left shaken after she says she was repeatedly punched on the school bus. The Katy High School student said the incident left her so distraught, she’s had nightmares. Cellphone video obtained by ABC13 shows punches being thrown. A teen appears to repeatedly raise her arm and punch someone in the back of …

Texas isn’t generally considered a national leader in research and development, despite having some renowned institutions and a string of Nobel Prize winners. But reality is ahead of perception, and the trend has been improving steadily. Now voters have a chance to keep the momentum going. On Tuesday, they’ll consider a proposition to approve another $3 billion for cancer research, …

A pregnant CVS employee was wounded Saturday morning when an armed robber opened fire at a store near Southern Methodist University. University Park police officers were called to the store at 3012 Mockingbird Lane shortly after 6:30 a.m., police said. The employee was shot twice during the robbery. Surveillance photo of robbery suspect(University Park Police Department) Officials took the victim, …

Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a man at a Trinity Railway Express station in Fort Worth on Friday evening. Officers investigate the aftermath of a fatal shooting at TRE’s CentrePort/DFW Airport station in Fort Worth in an image taken from footage shot by Metro Video Dallas/Fort Worth.(Metro Video Dallas/Fort Worth) Officers were called about 10:10 p.m. to the …

A 30-year-old man with three previous convictions for driving while intoxicated now faces a murder charge in a deadly wrong-way crash Monday on the Dallas North Tollway. Chaz Halston Thames(Dallas County Jail) Chaz Halston Thames was arrested Wednesday and booked into the Dallas County Jail, with bail set at $500,000. A spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety said …

A 29-year-old Dallas woman is accused of forcing two minor family members into sexual encounters with men at various hotels over several months, police said. Victoria Nicole Bautista(Dallas County Jail) Victoria Nicole Bautista, who lives in Far East Dallas, is in Dallas County Jail where she faces charges of compelling prostitution under age 18, continuous trafficking of a child under …

A 28-year-old man is accused of raping multiple women while identifying himself as a driver for ride-hailing services Lyft and Uber. Police arrested Talyle Meaderds of Grand Prairie in October after investigating multiple sexual assault cases. He faces three counts of aggravated sexual assault, jail records show. Meaderds was already in jail on Oct. 15, when a woman told police …

Police have arrested two murder suspects thee months after a Dallas man was shot while clinging to the side of a moving pickup in Dolphin Heights. Jesus Angel Rodriguez, 35, and Eduardo Gaspar, 18, face murder charges in the slaying of 22-year-old Traveon Deonte Lafayette Miller, according to police documents. On Aug. 25, Miller confronted one of the suspects at …

EL PASO, TEXAS — At a makeshift memorial next to the Walmart, decorated with white wooden crosses for each of 22 victims, a woman softly sings “Amor Eterno,” an unofficial anthem for pain shared across borders. Another man, Victor Fernando Gomez, walks quietly alongside items left for victims of the mass shooting here this summer. To mark Día de los Muertos, the Day …

More than 50 protesters gathered outside the Hunt County Sheriff’s Department on Saturday night calling for the release of the man arrested in last weekend’s mass shooting at a Greenville party. Brandon Ray Gonzales, 23, is being held on a capital murder charge in the Hunt County Jail, accused in last Sunday’s shooting that killed two 23-year-old men from North Texas and …