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Texas DPS will work with four other state law enforcement to enhance enforcement of the Move Over, Slow Down Law this week in ...

According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on May 14, Troopers will be focused on drivers violating their respective state’s Move Over, Slow Down laws. Others are ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Department of Public Safety is joining multiple state law enforcement agencies in a “joint one-day enhanced enforcement operation” happening Wednesday. Texas DPS ...

according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Investigators believe Ritter was driving a 2016 Honda CRV north on U.S. 87 when the vehicle left the roadway and entered the east barrow ditch ...

As summer heat arrives in North Texas, the Department of Public Safety is urging Texans to prepare for the extreme temperatures. Triple-digit temperatures, more commonly seen in the middle of ...

Auto traffic on Highlway Loop 12 in Irving, TX ca. 2008. (Photo by: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) 32,415 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster ...

LaSalle County is about 70 miles southeast of central San Antonio. Aldaco was pulled over by a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper on a stretch of Interstate 10 near the northern edge of ...

The Texas Department of Public Safety has released the identities of the one person killed and five others injured in a wrong-way crash that shut down a portion of the Dallas North Tollway early ...