Investigating the insulin death of Sarah Hartsfield's husband was this woman's first case as a detective. Hartsfield is now ...

Twenty people died in 2025 in the Harris County Jail, the state's largest pre-trial detention system, which has faced years of understaffing, overcrowding and wrongful death lawsuits. The death toll ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The student who was taken into custody after a deadly fight at Goose Creek CISD’s Sterling High School has been identified as ...

Jeremy O. Harris has been released from jail in Japan, The New York Times reports. The Slave Play writer was arrested on November 16 for alleged drug smuggling after he landed in Okinawa from Taiwan ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A high-stakes showdown is brewing between Shelby County’s top lawman and its top elected leader, as Sheriff Floyd Bonner and Mayor Lee Harris trade sharp words over the future of the ...

Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner and Mayor Lee Harris are publicly sparring over conditions and deaths at the county jail. Harris suggested the sheriff's office should no longer oversee the jail, ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner sent an open letter to Mayor Lee Harris, accusing him of ignoring jail conditions on Thursday night. In the letter, Bonner said that Mayor Harris’s ...

Harris County jail officials are investigating after two men suffered medical emergencies and died in custody on Wednesday. Kerry Parks, 63, who was serving a life sentence for a 2013 ...

BESSEMER, Ala. (WIAT) — For the first time, the mother of a man found dead in the Jefferson County Bessemer Jail is speaking out. The Jefferson County coroner says 24-year-old D’Koleman Harris was ...

HOUSTON — A 53-year-old inmate at the Harris County Jail died at a local hospital after contracting bacterial meningitis, prompting quarantine measures and a contact tracing effort by public health ...