HOUSTON -- The Texas Department of Transportation has released video footage showing the arrest of a black woman three days before she was found dead inside a Waller County jail cell. The video posted ...

Sandra Bland asked why she was being detained at least 14 times during the routine traffic stop that resulted in her arrest and subsequent death in a Texas jail cell, according to newly released dash ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Sandra Bland was arrested in Texas in 2015 and found dead in her jail cell days later. Now, lawmakers are introducing the Sandra Bland Act in honor of the Chicago area native. Its ...

How did a traffic stop lead to Sandra Bland‘s death? Did she really die of “self-inflicted asphyxiation” in her jail cell? If wrongdoing on the part of law enforcement can be proven, will the state ...

A Texas councilman was stunned with a Taser in front of his Prairie View home Thursday during an incident involving police—one of whom was reportedly involved in Sandra Bland’s arrest. Suggested ...

CHICAGO -- Newly obtained video shows the arrest of 28-year-old Sandra Bland, a Naperville, Illinois woman whose death at a Texas jail is being angrily questioned by her friends and relatives. Sandra ...

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A Texas city councilman who was shot with a Taser in the same city where Sandra Bland was arrested over the summer said his arrest on Friday was "unwarranted." Prairie View Councilman Jonathan Miller ...

The “Sandra Bland Act” passed in Texas this month, but Bland’s family isn’t happy with the approved bill. Bland’s sister and family spokeswoman, Sharon Cooper, said the family was disappointed in the ...

Bland, a 28-year-old Chicago-area woman, was found dead in her Waller County jail cell in Hempstead, about 200 miles south of Dallas, on July 13, three days after her arrest. Officials say she used a ...

The family of Sandra Bland, who was arrested in Prairie View, Texas, and was later found dead in her jail cell, announced that it's suing authorities in Texas on Tuesday. NPR's Wade Goodwyn reported ...

The autopsy of a woman who was found dead in a Texas jail revealed no injuries that would suggest she died in a violent homicide, authorities said Thursday. Waller County prosecutor Warren Diepraam ...