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In a significant about-face, the city of Detroit is now redacting disciplinary records for police officers on the force today.

6 Investigates has learned certain programs designed to help offenders are being utilized less than previous years. Some cases are being dismissed while offenders are in the middle of those programs.

CCPD takes 6 Investigates through the procedure for sending cases to the district attorney's office, and how the decision to prosecute a case rests with them.

Nueces County dismissed nearly 17,000 criminal cases in a period that spans more than three years. The 6 Investigates team spent months digging through nearly a 1,000 documents to find out why.

As the legal process between the Jones family and Nueces County officials drags on behind closed doors in regard to Padre Balli Park's fate, 6 Investigates digs into documents

On Thursday, a House select committee released audio of an Ohio Oath Keepers leader communicating during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. Jessica Watkins is charged with seditious conspiracy.

The Nueces County Commissioners Court voted to accept the severance agreement of former Nueces County Chief Medical Examiner Adel Shaker.

6 Investigates uncovers a local man doing a physician’s job for years, even though he doesn't have the proper license to be one.

The attorney for Sandra Vasquez, one of three people awaiting trial on charges related to the murder of Breanna Wood, has filed a motion to dismiss.

Residents, former teachers and parents in Pawnee say they were retaliated against by the superintendent of the small school district in Pawnee.

6 Investigates examines cases in which the Nueces County District Attorney's Office chose not to pursue charges in cases that would revoke probation.

Interim auditor Kimberly Houston still hasn't been certified after being given three extensions.

Nueces County fire marshal resigns from job.

The Jones Family has two issues it would like Nueces County to resolve in order to help settle a dispute over parkland at Padre Balli Park.

The Nueces County District Attorney has responded to a motion seeking to disqualify him and his office from all cases involving DPS trooper Marco Everett and claims made by a murder victim's mother..

Attorneys for one of two Department of Public Safety troopers arrested on multiple felonies has filed a motion to disqualify the Nueces County District Attorney and his assistants from one of the two cases.

Fred Martinez was visiting from San Antonio when he says he found himself accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy.

The Attorney General, on behalf of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, claims Blackhorn Environmental has violated the Texas Clean Air Act, Texas Solid Waste Disposal Act, and Texas Water Code.

An investigation by KRIS 6 News reveals the Nueces County fire marshal doesn't have any of the certifications needed to do the job.

Nueces County officials released a statement announcing that Fagen started in his new position Friday.

The charges currently are unclear.

6 Investigates learned of the decision by the potential candidate just two weeks after we reported the first had turned down the position.

6 Investigates looks into a donation to a local nonprofit founded by a top official with Nueces County.

A popular beach resort in Port Aransas is fighting a planned beach access road at the polls. 6 Investigates examines allegations the resort may have committed voter fraud.

Shaker's resignation is effective Wednesday.

During Tuesday's specially called meeting, commissioners looked to human resources director Julie Guerra for an explanation.

The Texas Rangers carried out the search warrant earlier this week.

The arrest affidavit sworn out by the Texas Ranger investigating the ME's office states Shaker was only one of several people at the county who knew Lyden was actively practicing without a license.

Nueces County District Attorney Mark A. Gonzalez and county judge Barbara Canales has confirmed that Shaker was arrested on Tuesday.

The Nueces County Commissioner's Court is resuming its search for a chief medical examiner after the person selected for the job decided not to accept.

The Texas State Attorney General's Office is taking over the prosecution of all cases related to Breanna Wood.

Fallon Wood exclusively tells KRIS 6 Investigates that Nueces County First Assistant District Attorney Angelica Hernandez asked her to sort through pre-trial evidence in the capital case against her daughter's alleged killer, Joseph Tejeda.

City leaders are developing a plan on what to do with a piece of land along Saratoga Boulevard, which has been at the center of controversy.

A 336-unit apartment complex is being built on the property that the Corpus Christi Independent School District originally had in mind for the new Carroll High School, only to change locations after finding out that it's within a Navy Accident Potential Zone -- also known as a crash zone.

Former Nueces County Chief Deputy Medical Examiner Sandra Lyden had her bail conditions amended during a hearing Friday.

'My first memories of me being concerned about things is when I would see that Dr. Shaker would write down weights of organs and we would not even pull them out,' said one former colleague.

The county hopes to have the new M.E. start on May 3.

A Michael Morton investigative file from the Nueces County District Attorney's Office reveals an investigation into Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Adel Shaker dating back to 2020.

Nueces County received a cease-and-desist demand letter from a family that gifted nearly 400 acres of beachfront land to the county in 1949. KRIS 6 News digs into where that land is and what the potential impacts are.

Nueces County Medical Examiner Adel Shaker has been treating patients with suboxone, a medication similar to methadone.

Those documents include death certificates and billing records.

How did the investigation into the Nueces County Medical Examiner's Office begin, and what do new documents show?