Two-term incumbent Republican Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn defeated Democratic challenger Patrick Moses. Waybourn received 53.72% of the vote to Moses’ 46.28%, according to unofficial results, ...

Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn says comments he made about undocumented immigrants were taken out of context amid calls for his resignation. “I’ll be held accountable for what I say,” Waybourn ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn said jail staff "performed magnificently" leading up to the death of Mason Yancy, who died in the Tarrant County Jail Dec. 27. Yancy's family ...

Donald Trump is stronger than ever in Texas. Or maybe the Democratic Party is weaker. Those can be the only takeaways from a general election in which Trump wasn’t the lagging Republican on the Texas ...

The family of a man who died in the Tarrant County Jail last December sent a letter to Tarrant County commissioners on Saturday asking them to petition for a trial to remove Sheriff Bill Waybourn from ...

Democrat Patrick Moses, left, is challenging incumbent Republican Bill Waybourn, right, in the Nov. 5 election. Tarrant County voters have elected a Republican to the county's highest law enforcement ...

Doug Myers is a digital content producer for CBS Texas. A longtime journalist, Doug has worked for four newspapers in Texas and Louisiana and for three television stations in Texas. He has also spent ...

The sheriff in Tarrant County oversees 1,400 employees. He protects 2.2 million residents. He manages a $62 million budget. But there is one number that looms larger than all of those in this year’s ...

The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office declined to give a briefing on current standard operating procedures that apply to the jail during Tuesday's Commissioners Court meeting. The briefing, requested by ...

Republican Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn has won a third term. Sheriff Waybourn has faced intense backlash over high-profile deaths at his jail. His opponent, Democrat Patrick Moses, says it ...