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The Texas Rangers are investigating a shooting involving four Denton police officers that occurred early Sunday morning. The incident began when Denton Public Safety Communications received a ...

Texas DPS says DNA and genealogy testing identified Emory Earl McVay as the suspect in three Bastrop County sexual assaults ...

TEXAS – A man authorities believed raped several women has been identified, according to the Texas Rangers. Emory Earl McVay, ...

Texas investigators identified a Bastrop County serial rapist through DNA testing, solving assaults from 1997 to 2005 after ...

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) - Following an investigation by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), Emory Earl McVay, who died in 2010, has been identified as the suspect in multiple cold case ...

The Texas Rangers are investigating four Denton police officers after a man was killed in an officer-involved shooting in ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has directed DPS to help bolster security efforts at religious spaces following Michigan Mormon church shooting.

Investigators have identified Emory Earl McVay as the suspect in several Bastrop County rape cases between 1997 and 2005.

Using forensic genetic genealogy, authorities have identified the family of a newborn found dead in a California park. Now, ...

Governor Abbott deploys Texas Rangers to investigate Elgin's financial activities over misappropriation concerns, aiming to ...