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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officially has a new class of state troopers. On Friday, 138 new ...

On Friday, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) welcomed 138 new Texas Highway Patrol Troopers from recruit Class C-2024 during a graduation ceremony at Great Hills ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KAUZ) - The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) welcomed 138 new Texas Highway Patrol Troopers from ...

A Texas state trooper accused of wrongfully killing a man in Converse after a pursuit exercised his right to remain silent ...

while 2025 signees Deondrae "Tiger" Riden and Jamarion Morrow fill out what is the deepest running back room Texas A&M has had in several seasons. Le'Veon Moss will likely see fewer snaps during ...

the Texas A&M football players who have declared for the 2025 NFL Draft are hoping and praying their names get called. E.J. Smith, who played running back for the Aggies, thinks he has what it ...

I am running for the Vanessa T. Marcotte Foundation to raise awareness and advocate for women to be able to live their lives freely without any fear of being assaulted. The Foundation works to ...

Cindy Barkley, with the Texas Department of Public Safety. One person died in a vehicle accident after driving into smoke, according to Gov. Kevin Stitt in Oklahoma. The governor praised the early ...

It was unrecognizable as a home. Just a debris field,’ a coroner in Missouri said after a tornado slammed into a man’s home, ...