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March 4 primary election

A 1981 Odessa murder haunts crime researchers, the Catholic Church, and an ex-con determined to prove his innocence

A re-examination of a Bastrop murder case leaves many unanswered questions.

Off the Desk:

More cops are being indicted, but why all the secrecy?

With more than 30 years of legal experience, Soifer is no stranger to social justice cases

Deaf Austinites say police can't seem to listen to reason

Although their case has hit a dead end, prosecutors of the yogurt shop murders say they're determined to find the 'unknown suspect' – and then to retry Michael Scott and Robert Springsteen

Courthouse dogs bark that Constable Gary Griffin may have broken law by including mental-health-call-related 911 logs as evidence in his civil case against county

Another Texas death row case marked by official carelessness, negligence, and intransigence

Despite a Supreme Court ban on the execution of the mentally retarded, those prisoners remain on Texas' death row.

Republican Shane Phelps takes another stab at Democrat Ronnie Earle's job for district attorney.

Did misleading DNA analysis land an innocent man on death row?

Family attorney argues city's rejection of settlement was breach of contract

After 35 years and a lengthy sentence for robbery, Ronnie Barrs remains determined to prove his innocence

Fleet Services may be cleaning up those tires, but there's still a big mess

The four D.A. candidates have their critics

Williamson County wastewater deal yields the familiar odor of Commissioner Limmer

Among amendments tacked onto newest version of the PATRIOT Act is a section allowing U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to grant legal fast-track for death-penalty appeals in states that have enacted standards for attorney appointments to indigent death row inmates

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

Times Warner's struggling news channel lashes out at defectors

The Privatization Route

Do Bill Bunch's Tactics Hurt the Springs He Loves?

AG says he'll prosecute those who advise mail ballots to avoid COVID-19

Revisiting the yogurt shop murders: A cold case reconsideration of the 1991 crime points away from the prosecution's assumptions and conclusions

Capital murder case highlights Texas courts' resistance to physical evidence

Your Texas death machine gets rolling again

Constable Gary Griffin's attorney: 'This case is not over.'

How mentally ill does a prisoner have to be in order to deem execution cruel and unusual punishment?

Legendary "Humanzee" Oliver, his friends, and the bitter fight over animal welfare at a Texas refuge