texas authorities

Authorities were searching Tuesday for three Michigan girls who were reported missing when their mother was found dead. Police think they may be headed to Texas.

The Travis County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in locating a man and woman who have left a trail of worthless checks at Central Texas stores.

Texas authorities Wednesday began looking for five indicted members of the FLDS polygamist sect that has a compound in West Texas. The five were indicted Tuesday.

Texas authorities are arguing that the families of children seized from a polygamist ranch could flee Texas if an appeals-court ruling is allowed to stand.

Members of a polygamist group say they are thrilled by a court decision that Texas authorities had no grounds to remove hundreds of children from their parents without court action.

Texas authorities have finished taking DNA samples from all the children removed from a polygamist compound more than two weeks ago.

An attorney for polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs says Texas authorities may have been duped by a fake phone tip into raiding a West Texas ranch occupied by Jeffs' followers.

For four frustrating years, an informant fed a West Texas Sheriff information about the polygamist sect that built a compound in the desert.

But no one would come forward hard...