JAMES A. SKINNER

Officials say two people were killed and three injured in an explosion Monday in an unincorporated area of Collin County, Texas, near Farmersville.

The death of a Black man who struggled with detention officers at a Texas jail during what his family members say probably was a mental health crisis has been ruled a homicide.

A sheriff in Texas has fired seven officers involved in the in-custody death of a Black jail inmate in Texas whose family members say may have been suffering a mental health crisis.

MCKINNEY, Texas A Texas couple have been charged with evidence tampering and abuse of a corpse after authorities found their infant son dead in a bucket of tar. In a shed behind the house they found a bucket of tar, with Micah Grabowskis tiny form submerged in it, Capt. Bristow said the Grabowskis told deputies that they awoke on July 29 to find their son dead in their bed, but they never reported it. It's tragic and it's sad enough any time we have the death of an infant," Skinner told WFAA-TV. Roland is registered as a sex offender in Texas for 2008 sexual assaults on two girls, ages 14 and 12.