Texas

A Texas death row inmate who argued that his conviction was based on junk science was executed Wednesday for the abduction, rape and killing of a suburban Houston community college student more than 20 years ago.

Texas public schools have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to cannabis, but apparently the State Board of Education does not.

48-year-old Larry Swearingen' sixth request for a stay was denied unanimously last week by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles.

A car dealership is helping a man who lost his wife in the El Paso mass shooting.

A Dallas County judge has set the new execution date for 'Texas 7' inmate Patrick Murphy.

Three Texas Congressmen, Henry Cuellar of San Antonio, Randy Weber of League City and Michael McCaul of Austin, introduced bipartisan legislation that would allow federal law enforcement officers and prosecutors to better identify and charge those committing acts of domestic terrorism in the United...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Immigrants held in U.S. detention facilities filed a lawsuit Monday decrying what they called shoddy medical care and a failure by authorities to provide accommodations for disabilities. In the suit filed by disability and civil rights advocates in U.S. District Court, immigrants...

Time will tell if the Texas Longhorns and Texas A&M Aggies are "back," but the two programs are getting some respect from the voters in the Associated Press preseason college football poll.

Frisco firefighters are in Quanah, Texas, about 80 miles northwest of Wichita Falls, this morning helping to knock down the Copper Breaks Fire in Hardeman County.

The search continues for a missing man on Lake Ray Hubbard. NBC5 reports that Dallas Fire Rescue and Texas Parks and Wildlife searched for Santiago Hernandez who went missing while riding a personal watercraft on Lake Ray Hubbard on Friday. DFR crews responded to a call that said a man reportedly...