A Texas sheriff says a man being held in jail fatally assaulted a detention officer who was returning him to his cell following the one hour he was allowed out of his lockup each day.

An AMBER Alert for a missing 12 year-old out of Waxahachie, Texas has been discontinued.

At least eight people were injured when storms that brought at least five tornadoes to North Texas flipped tractor-trailers on an interstate and damaged structures.