Indian actor and director Vijay Kumar remains in federal immigration detention in Houston after brass knuckles were found in luggage he had checked for a flight to Canada.
The Texas Association of Magicians annual conference brings together hundreds of mind readers, escape artists, illusionists and other magical arts experts.
Texas authorities are now offering a $5,000 reward for the capture of a registered sex offender who left a Dallas halfway house after cutting off a monitoring device he is required to wear on his ankle.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White says his border security plan would use some state money and bring in more federal money to hire one thousand new police officers for border counties and 250 new DPS troopers for the border region.
Federal prosecutors have charged 11 people, including the mayor of a small West Texas town and the El Paso County district clerk, as part of a years-old federal public corruption case.