1+ week, 5+ day ago   (342+ words) HOUSTON — Public safety does not always arrive wearing a badge. Sometimes it pulls up in a purple-and-gray vehicle carrying an unarmed behavioral-health specialist and an EMT. Sometimes it looks like a trusted neighborhood violence interrupter sitting beside a shooting victim…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (999+ words) It took close to 30 years for someone to be arrested in the drive-by murder of rap legend Tupac Shakur, an extraordinary stretch that turned the young singer’s 1996 killing into the stuff of legend and conspiracy. By contrast, it took less…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (268+ words) Duane “Keffe D” Davis was convicted Monday of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further, or assist a criminal gang in the killing of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur. The jury deliberated for about three hours....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (585+ words) FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS — Democracy is ultimately judged close to home—not only at the ballot box, but on the streets where families live, businesses invest and citizens expect the justice system to work fairly. In Fort Bend County, District…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (433+ words) A Sacramento man said he was left bloodied and injured after four men shouted anti-LGBTQ and racist slurs, chased him and attacked him in the city’s Lavender Heights neighborhood early Sunday. Joseph Sais said he and a friend were walking…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1746+ words) Ben Crump’s voice cut through the noise of a crowded convention hall like a thunderclap. “Justice for Nolan Wells,” the attorney shouted late last month as he marched into the room with his fist thrust defiantly into the air. The…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (321+ words) 71 years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi, his name continues to carry both pain and purpose. Family members, faith leaders and community members gathered Sunday for a church service at Farish Street Baptist Church to commemorate Till’s life…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1129+ words) Tupac Shakur’s death has returned to the minds of many these days, as a man stands trial for his murder nearly three decades after the rapper and actor was gunned down. The renewed attention is also a reminder that Shakur…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (798+ words) Davis, who is accused of orchestrating Shakur’s murder during a September 1996 visit to Las Vegas, spent a majority of court Thursday listening to a younger version of himself describe the shooting during a 2008 recorded interview with law enforcement. His version…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (525+ words) HOUSTON — In a county of more than five million people, public safety is never a one-tool job. Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis is making the case that keeping neighborhoods safe requires not only responding to crime, but investing earlier — before…...