Texas man facing execution in shaken baby syndrome case awaits clemency ruling
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man who this week could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder...
Texas state government
Texas is a young state with older elected officials. Some young leaders are trying to change that.
Figure out what to wear to be taken seriously; prepare a few one-liners to respond to the inevitable...
Texas prison system’s staffing crisis and outdated technology endanger guards and inmates
Texas’ sprawling prison and criminal justice system is facing a dangerous staffing crisis that puts ...
Judge denies effort to halt State Fair of Texas’ gun ban
DALLAS (AP) — A judge on Thursday denied a effort by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to halt the r...
Texas leads push for faster certification of mental health professionals
Aspiring Texas psychologists hope to earn certification and start work faster under a new licensing ...
Texas Attorney General Paxton sues to block gun ban at the sprawling State Fair of Texas
DALLAS (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to block a ban on f...
Houston’s former mayor is the Democrats’ nominee to succeed the late US Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
HOUSTON (AP) — Former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner was picked Tuesday as the Democrats’ nominee to...
Texas electricity demand could nearly double in six years, grid operator predicts
The state’s main electric grid operator has sharply increased its prediction for how much power dema...
Louisiana may soon require public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana could soon become the first state to require that the Ten Commandm...
The Supreme Court won’t intervene in a dispute over drag shows at a public university in Texas
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal from a student group that...
Supreme Court temporarily blocks Texas law that allows police to arrest migrants
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ plan to arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegally is headed to the Su...
Kansas lawmakers are allowing a 93% pay raise for themselves to take effect next year
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is set to nearly double state legislators’ pay at the start of next year,...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton gets temporary reprieve from testifying in lawsuit against him
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to temporarily halt state Attorney Ge...
Biden administration asks Supreme Court to intervene in its dispute with Texas over border land
McAllen, TEXAS (AP) — The drowning deaths of three migrants has brought new urgency to an extraordin...
Louisiana governor-elect names former gubernatorial candidate to lead state’s department of revenue
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov.-elect Jeff Landry named Richard Nelson, a Republican state la...
Texas AG Ken Paxton’s securities fraud trial set for April, more than 8 years after indictment
HOUSTON (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will stand trial on securities fraud charges in Apr...
Dallas mayor switches parties, making the city the nation’s largest with a GOP mayor
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced Friday that he is switching to the Republic...
GOP candidate challenging election loss in race to lead Texas’ most populous county drops lawsuit
HOUSTON (AP) — The highest profile Republican candidate who had sued seeking to overturn election re...
A federal judge strikes down a Texas law requiring age verification to view pornographic websites
A federal judge has struck down a Texas law requiring age verification and health warnings to view p...
Texas Supreme Court denies request to delay new election law despite lawsuit challenging it
HOUSTON (AP) — A new Republican-backed Texas law that dictates how elections will be run in the Demo...