MORE ON THE SHOOTING: Brazoria County sheriff's deputy killed in southwest Houston A Blue Alert is issued as part of a Texas program designed to find people accused of killing or seriously ...

Millions of Texans were jolted out of bed just before 5:00 a.m. Friday when Hall County—somewhere north of Lubbock, population 2,810—issued a Blue Alert after a deputy was injured by a ...

The Blue Alert system was put in place via an executive ... John Whitmire, who is now the mayor of Houston.

HOUSTON, TEXAS - JUNE 01 ... Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images TEXAS – When a Blue Alert is issued, it means a serious and possibly deadly situation has happened involving ...

That’s hundreds of miles away from the cities that were torpedoed by the early morning alerts. The Department of Public Safety develops and issues blue alerts across the state when a person ...

Texas has Blue Alerts thanks in part to Houston Mayor John Whitmire. In 2017, the Texas Legislature passed SB1138 to create a Blue Alert system "to aid in the apprehension of an individual ...

A Blue Alert has been canceled after the Harris County Sheriff's Office posted on social media that the suspect has been captured. Authorities in the Houston area issued a Blue Alert in the search ...

We have a FOX 26 Storm Alert for late this Tuesday afternoon with scattered heavy storms by the afternoon and evening. The ...

HOUSTON — Texans across the state were woken up by a Blue Alert early Friday morning after a suspect reportedly shot a police officer in the Texas Panhandle. And many people were unhappy about it.

Brazoria County Deputy Jesus Vargas was killed in the Wednesday shooting, officials with the Houston Police Department said during a news conference. A Blue Alert is issued as part of a Texas ...