A former Madison County school bus mechanic and fill-in bus driver started his third trial Tuesday on sex-related charges involving a then-13-year-old friend of his daughter.

Texas will test children’s DNA and then remove them from mothers

Mothers separated from their children as part of a wide-ranging abuse investigation within a polygamist retreat accuse state officials of misleading them before taking their offspring into custody.

Cesar Rodriguez continues to insist he was innocent in the shocking death of his 7-year-old stepdaughter even as he was sentenced Thursday to up to 29 years in prison. The scrawny and battered girl, Nixzmary Brown, was bound to a chair, starved and forced to urinate in a litter box before she was killed with a fatal blow to the head.