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House lawmakers are hearing seven bills aimed at easing truancy laws a week after an advocacy group reported that Texas prosecutes twice as many teens for unexcused absences than all other states combined.
The signs delivered to state lawmakers in Austin had a strong message with just two words: Former Fetus. But it wasn't the message that caused a flap, it was the interaction between two Republican lawmakers about where the sign was hung.
A husband and wife are recovering from burns after escaping a barn that caught fire. It started just before 7:00am Wednesday on Parker Road where the barn sits close to several homes.
The group, Next Generation Action Network, has decided to use the home of Parker Rice as the location for a public demonstration against racism.
The final word over the Super Bowl seat mishap four years ago is now in the hands of a federal court jury.
The Texas Senate has easily approved Gov. Greg Abbott's first three appointees to the University of Texas System Board of Regents, bringing what began as a contentious process to a tame conclusion.
A-list acts including Garth Brooks, Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert, Jason Aldean and George Strait are set to perform April 19 at the Academy of Country Music's 50th awards show.
An Irving husband and wife on the verge of divorce are found dead inside their home along with another man.
Jonathan Davis, who became the University of Oklahoma SAE chapter's first African American inductee, speaks with KRLD about the fraternity's racist video.
State lawmakers named pop star Phil Collins an honorary Texan on Wednesday, saluting his donation of hundreds of Alamo artifacts back to the historic San Antonio outpost.
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A legislator from Dallas has scrapped his proposal preventing the government from burdening a person's free exercise of religion after opposition from Texas businesses.
Dallas-based Southwest plans to operate the flights beginning in October from a new international terminal being built at Houston's Hobby Airport.
Two people from Plano are recovering from serious burns on Wednesday after flames consumed the barn where they were living. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Plano Police have a arrested a 17-year-old and charged him with murder in the stabbing death of a 16-year-old on Sunday.
