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Officials in Texas announced on Thursday that State Troopers would no longer be allowed to open fire on suspects from helicopters after the recent killing of two immigrants. While announcing the new policy, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw insisted that the ban on aerial shootings had nothing to do with the October 2012 death of two Guatemalan immigrants, who were gunned down by troopers in helicopter while they were hiding in the back of a speeding pickup truck near La Joya.

Carlton Berry, 22, was charged with aggravated assault in the shooting at Lone Star College, which left four people hospitalized.

Two students at a college near Houston, Texas, were struck by gunfire on Tuesday after shooting broke out between two people on the campus, a college official said on CNN.

A Texas woman was charged with capital murder Wednesday after allegedly shooting another woman and snatching her baby in the parking lot of a pediatric clinic, reports say. The newborn was later found safe.

Police are investigating multiple shootings reported at a Texas Southern University event.

Millions of wild pigs weighing up to 300 pounds have been tearing up crops, trampling fences and eating just about anything in their path in Texas. But now they had better watch their hairy backs.

Police are searching this afternoon for a man suspected of fatally shooting his aunt outside an Old East Dallas apartment Saturday night.