Texas law required judges to lower bond amounts for murder suspects after Travis County DA's office failed to meet 90-day ...

An Austin man had his bond drastically reduced from $800,000 to just $100 with conditions on a first-degree murder charge. The Travis County DA is asking for a judge to increase it.

Members of the Texas Senate's Criminal Justice Committee heard testimony Wednesday on five bail-related bills aimed at ...

Housing finance corporations can erase an apartment owner’s property tax bill without notice to affected cities or counties, ...

Texas lawmakers in the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice talked extensively on Wednesday morning about five proposed bail ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. - A major drug bust in San Diego as the US Coast Guard offloaded more than $275 million worth of illegal ...

The Texas Legislature was back in session Tuesday, taking up one of the emergency items Governor Greg Abbott identified in his recent State of the State ...

An assessment of state-level inflows and outflows of federal funds finds red states are being propped up by blue states.

A bill that would make judges remove the option of bail for certain felony offenders has now been passed to the Texas Senate.

The Republican’s Senate Bill 40 would ban political subdivisions from sending public funds to nonprofits that pay bail bonds ...

California Insurance Commissioner approves $1 billion assessment to the FAIR Plan, the state's insurance safety net in light of SoCal wildfires ...