South Carolina Inmate May Have Used Drone in Prison Escape, Officials Say

By NIRAJ CHOKSHI July 7, 2017 Jimmy Causey escaped from a South Carolina prison this week, but his methods this time around were far more high-tech than they were a dozen years ago, when he broke free from another maximum-security state prison. The...

Man Wielding Knife Kills One and Injures Three at University of Texas

By DAVE MONTGOMERY and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA May 1, 2017 AUSTIN — A man killed one student and wounded three others on Monday at the University of Texas, walking calmly from one to another and stabbing them with a bowie knife,...

Reports of Raids Have Immigrants Bracing for Enforcement Surge

By NICHOLAS KULISH, CAITLIN DICKERSON and LIZ ROBBINS February 10, 2017 In Austin, Tex., undocumented women working in a laundromat cowered in the back of the room, petrified after seeing a video and a photograph of apprehensions outside a...

Texas Democrats Angered by Trump’s Remark on Destroying Senator’s Career

By MANNY FERNANDEZ and DAVID MONTGOMERY February 8, 2017 HOUSTON — A comment President Trump made on Tuesday in which he spoke of destroying the career of a Texas state senator has angered Democratic lawmakers in the state and cast a...