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A grand jury in Texas has declined to charge rapper Travis Scott over a deadly crowd surge at the Astroworld music festival nearly two years ...

Justice Department prosecutors in Washington, DC, have taken over the corruption investigation into Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

A Texas grand jury on Thursday declined to press criminal charges against rapper Travis Scott and five others over a 2021 crowd crush at a ...

Travis Scott’s attorney provides more details on communication timeline

Rapper, promoter Live Nation and others had been investigated after 10 died and thousands were injured at Astroworld in 2021

Prosecutors are presenting evidence to a grand jury, which will decide whether there's probable cause to bring criminal charges against the rapper and others

A grand jury in Texas has declined to charge rapper Travis Scott over a deadly crowd surge at the Astroworld music festival nearly two years ...

Justice Department prosecutors in Washington, DC, have taken over the corruption investigation into Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

A grand jury declined to criminally indict rapper Travis Scott and others for the 2021 Astroworld concert deaths.

Minnesota Timberwolves forward Taurean Prince is breathing easier heading into the holiday season ... TMZ Sports has learned he will not face charges stemming from ...

Jermall Charlo just scored a big win in his assault case ... prosecutors tell TMZ Sports they're dropping the felony charge against the star boxer.

"We resolved the case between Iyanna and the State," Yaya's attorney, Kent Schaffer, tells ET. "The agreement calls for Iyanna to be on deferred adjudication ...

According to court documents obtained by XXL on Wednesday (April 13), Mayweather, 21, pleaded guilty in Harris County Court in Houston for Aggravated Assault With ...

A former San Antonio banker was sentenced Tuesday to five years of probation for his guilty plea to charges that he moonlighted as a drug ...

Jermall Charlo is off the hook in his robbery case ... the case was just dismissed based on insufficient evidence, TMZ Sports has learned.

U.S. District Judge Alfred Bennett sentenced Anurag Dass, 50, of Houston, to two years in federal prison for receiving $2,242,899 in fraudulent reimbursements from the ...

“We found name after name where there's not a date of birth, not a voter ID number, it's dated improperly, it's notarized on a different ...

The Harris County District Attorney’s Office has dismissed aggravated assault charges against J Prince, founder and CEO of Houston’s Rap-a-Lot Records, Rap-a-Lot announced today.

The actor had a great day in court, where his lawyer not only proved he was not in violation of his probation, stemming from his ...

Jorge Arroyo's head appeared to be on a swivel. From his vantage point in the burgundy leatherette booth, he constantly monitored the other patrons of ...

Veteran Houston criminal defense attorney Kent Schaffer dropped by the Hotel Six proceedings last month to catch some of the early action, and wandered out ...

After a two-hour trial today, former Texas prisons director James "Andy" Collins and Canadian businessman Yank Barry were acquitted of decade-old federal bribery charges involving ...

The J. Edgar hottie was detained for marijuana possession back on Nov. 20 in the west Texas town of Sierra Blanca after drug-sniffing dogs sussed ...

State District Judge Devon Anderson this afternoon declared a mistrial in the Ashley Benton murder trial, citing a hung jury.

Mexican authorities said Saturday they have filed formal charges against alleged drug kingpin Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez Villareal and are weighing a request to extradite ...

Federal authorities have dismissed charges against a Colombian medicine man detained at a Houston airport with vials of a potent hallucinogen.

When Juan Agreda-Chindoy arrived at the U.S. customs screening point at Bush Intercontinental Airport last month, an officer thought he looked nervous and singled him ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced financial fraud charges against four former SMF Energy Corp. officers Friday, alleging that they inflated SMF’s revenues in a ...

Almost two years after brutally stabbing a teenage gangbanger, Ashley Benton is determined to reclaim her life. But her problems are not over yet.

He stashed it in tote bags, spent it on properties and made nightly deposits but the cash from drug sales kept piling up at Muhammad ...

In August, Alan Pean drove himself to St. Joseph Medical Center having a “manic episode.” While at St. Joseph, he was shot by Taser and ...

Armie Hammer has officially secured the life rights to Mexican cartel leader Edgar-Valdez Villarreal, otherwise known as “La Barbie.” The actor confirmed that he is ...

Michael Sokolow approached the recent holidays feeling, he told friends, “like the biggest idiot in the world,” having turned down millions in fees to stay ...

The embezzler at the center of an investigation that brought down two Harris County DA investigators and saw one indicted for stealing thousands of dollars ...

Feb. 7, 2007 — -- Their love story began in 1979, but the lives of Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett have been anything but a ...

The two teens Craig Washington shot at during a parking lot confrontation last year said Monday they were disappointed they did not get to tell ...

U.K. citizen, Chris Tappin, has visited the United States before....but never like this. Tappin was extradited to the U.S. over a week ago after a ...

It turns out that so-called “prisoner swap” with Iran didn’t involve much of a swap. When given the chance, none of the Iranians freed from ...

A father and son from the Miami area who were third-party vendors on Amazon are expected to appear in federal court in Houston Friday on ...

A Spanish judge said a former Mexican politician detained here failed to explain the source of almost €200,000 he received from Mexico while living in ...

The Justice Department has brought charges against at least 82 individuals in 56 cases for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) fraud in the six months since ...

A civil court judge Wednesday ordered that sitting criminal district Judge George Powell be included on the March primary ballot after the Harris County Democratic ...

Jeffrey Pike may have began Monday in an orange jail uniform, but he will end it as a free man. Pike should be free on ...

Mexican authorities captured a legendary Texan on Monday who is accused of a bloody climb to the top echelon of one of the hemisphere's most ...

Edgar Valdez Villarreal, a.k.a. La Barbie, a Texas-born drug smuggler, was extradited from Mexico last month.

Last week, Floyd Mayweather was in the headlines again after his daughter, Iyanna “Yaya” Mayweather was arrested. She’s accused of stabbing the 25-year-old girlfriend of ...

Prosecutors in the long-running criminal case against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the Texas Rangers two weeks ago to investigate allegations of bribery and ...

A former Harris County District Judge, who was indicted on wire fraud charges last year, has been arrested again, according to court records. She is ...

Meet three celebs who were glad to have Houston’s lawyer-to-the-stars.

One of two special prosecutors appointed in the Paxton case, Kent Schaffer, 60, is a partner in Bires Schaffer & DeBorde of Houston. The 17-year-old ...

WBC middleweight champion Jermall Charlo was arrested Wednesday on felony robbery charges following an alleged dispute with a waitress over a bar tab.

Defense attorney Kent Schaffer looks back on the notorious 2007 capital murder trial that gripped Houston: that of Lamar High School student Ashley Benton, accused ...