Laniecia Smith, 31 and Betty Tomlinson, 51, face criminal charges in connection with separate unrelated incidents.

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The lead prosecutor tasked with finding justice for four University of Idaho students killed in a grisly quadruple stabbing more than two years ago laid out his key evidence ...

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News that Mount Prospect’s automated license-plate reader system had been improperly accessed to search for a Texas woman who’d had an abortion inspired both indignation and, especially in the ...

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago police department for allegedly sharing data from automatic license-plate readers with a Texas ...

Texans will no longer be given a temporary paper license plate when purchasing a new car and instead will receive metal plates.

Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 718 on June 12, 2023, during the 88th Legislative Session, replacing all Texas paper license plates with metal ones.

CHICAGO — In response to reports of Texas officials using automatic license plate reading technology to track a woman who traveled to Illinois for an abortion, Evanston officials passed an ...

Dallas police seized 42 fake paper license plate tags and issued 49 citations Wednesday, January 19, 2022 through an interagency operation across southern areas of Dallas. The switch to metal ...

Following years of widespread fraud and abuse that touched every state, Texas is eliminating most temporary paper license plates and replacing them with new color-coded metal ones.