Bodies recovered from the Texas Hill Country floods will be sent to the University of North Texas in Fort Worth for ...

Texas Department of Public Safety Director Freeman F. Martin says “there’s no higher priority for us than finding those children” who are missing following flash flooding in Texas. Martin joins Texas ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to provide an update on the search and rescue efforts in Central Texas after deadly ...

Colonel Freeman Martin was sworn in on Monday by Governor Greg Abbott as the new chief of the Texas Department of Public Safety. He now helms a department at the forefront of Texas' polarizing ...

Col. Freeman Martin, director of the Texas DPS. Martin, 56, is replacing Col. Steve McCraw, who announced last summer that he would retire by the end of the year after leading the agency for 15 years.

Incoming Texas Department of Public Safety Director Freeman Martin. (Texas Department of Public Safety) DPS has more than 11,000 employees and a $3.5 billion biennial budget.

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Freeman Martin was officially sworn in as the new Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (KXAN Photo/Todd Bailey) ...

Martin, who began at DPS as a highway patrol trooper in 1990, was named to the top agency post by the Public Safety Commission on Wednesday. His tenure will begin Dec. 1.

Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick held a press conference this afternoon, detailing the state’s response to the catastrophic ...

Multiple deaths have been reported in Texas after heavy rain caused flash flooding of a river, while search teams used boats ...

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is urging Texans to download the iWatchTexas mobile app to protect the public ...