State lawmakers and criminal justice experts offer some insight into what drives the lawmaking process in Texas and whether police chases – a phenomenon that killed nearly 100 people in Texas in 2022 – will ever be regulated in the law.

The woman died at John Peter Smith Hospital, according to the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office.

Johnson died after Tarrant County jailers pepper sprayed him, and one knelt on his back for more than a minute. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office ruled Johnson's death a homicide by asphyxiation.

A Dallas County Juvenile Department officer has been at Parkland Hospital since an April 7 incident involving a detainee.

The North Texas hospital system joins over 400 other entities and a dozen state attorneys general suing over alleged collusion to hike insulin prices.

Commissioner Alisa Simmons said she wanted the court to be briefed on compassionate release because of concerns over an inmate with terminal stomach cancer.

The Texas Supreme Court ruled that because of flawed legal reasoning from lower courts, a juvenile judge must reconsider whether a Houston man will be tried as an adult for a capital murder allegedly committed when he was a teen.

Under state law, every death in county jail custody triggers an independent investigation. That requirement places too big a burden on law enforcement, Tarrant County District Attorney Phil Sorrells wrote in a letter to the state attorney general's office.

The threats included racial slurs, Ramirez's office said in a press release.

Jail deaths were not independently investigated by Fort Worth police, records show. A potential loophole in Texas law made the scenario possible.

The hearing included emotional testimony from Cindy Clemishire, who accused Southlake megachurch pastor Robert Morris of sexually abusing her as a child in the 1980s — allegations Morris has since been indicted on.

An emotional, 10-hour-long Texas House committee meeting Tuesday highlighted the stark divide between lawmakers and the public on the state's bail system, a legislative priority this session.