Today The Satanic Temple’s Protect Children Project held what they say was a peaceful demonstration outside of Dumas High School against the district’s policy on corporal punishment.
His decision came months after a two-week trial in August in which no GOP voters came forward to testify they were unable to vote because of the problems.
A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper is in the hospital following a major crash involving a chase in Harris County Tuesday evening, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety - Southeast Texas Region.
The charges stem from accusations that in 2011 Paxton tried to solicit investors in a McKinney technology company without disclosing that it was paying him to promote its stock. The attorney general has pleaded not guilty.
The measures expand on city ordinances rural Texas cities began passing in 2019 to ban abortion within their boundaries, even if the cities did not have a clinic performing abortions.
Like in Texas, voucher programs in other states sparked vigorous debates, came with the same promises and faced similar concerns. Not all predictions came true.
Governor Greg Abbott announced Special Session #3 on Thursday and issued a proclamation identifying agenda items for the special session that begins at 1 p.m. Monday, Oct. 9.
Last week, Governor Greg Abbott announced continued efforts to battle the fentanyl crisis by supplying Narcan to all Texas law enforcement agencies for the second time.
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled Thursday that portions of Texas Senate Bill 1, adopted in September 2021, violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Firefighters extinguished the blaze in a few hours and the employee who was injured has been released from a hospital, Sherwin-Williams spokesperson Julie Young said in an email.
By The Associated Press and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press
A Texas judge ruled Friday that the state’s abortion ban has proven too restrictive for women with serious pregnancy complications and must allow exceptions without doctors fearing the threat of criminal charges.
The Texas case is believed to be the first brought by women who were denied abortions since the right to an abortion in the U.S. was overturned, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing them.
Advocates and others have been highly critical of the lack of air conditioning in the nation’s largest prison system, alleging temperatures that often go past 120 degrees Fahrenheit inside Texas prisons in the summer have been responsible for hundreds of inmate deaths in recent years.
In one account, a trooper that upon encountering a group of 120 migrants on June 25 — including young children and mothers nursing babies — he and another trooper were ordered to “push the people back into the water to go to Mexico.”
Angela Colmenero will step in as the state’s top lawyer on an interim basis starting Friday while Paxton awaits a trial in the state Senate that could result in his permanent removal, the office said.
The deal would channel $12 billion to reduce the school property tax rate for homeowners and business properties, increase the homestead exemption, and create a pilot program to reduce taxes on certain residential and commercial properties.
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and Speaker Dade Phelan today issued a joint statement to announce an agreement on proposed legislation that will deliver the biggest property tax cut in Texas history.
Governor Greg Abbott today issued a disaster declaration for Texas communities impacted by severe storms and tornadoes that caused significant damage to homes and businesses.
Law enforcement officials who helped push the bill through the legislature say the current system allows criminals to more easily counterfeit the tags.
OSHA’s area offices in El Paso and Lubbock, Texas, and the Albuquerque Mexican Consulate entered into a two-year alliance to provide Spanish-speaking workers in West Texas with information, guidance and access to workers’ rights resources.
