Texas Senate OKs Nearly $4 Billion From Rainy Day Fund
The Texas Senate overwhelmingly voted on Monday to spend nearly $4 billion from the state's Rainy Day Fund to close gaps in the current state budget.
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The Texas Senate overwhelmingly voted on Monday to spend nearly $4 billion from the state's Rainy Day Fund to close gaps in the current state budget.
The Texas House passed hotly debated legislation Monday requiring voters to show photo identification before casting ballots, sending to Gov. Rick Perry's desk a measure he declared an "emergency" item for the legislative session.
Last Friday, nearly two dozen deputy Dallas County constables were placed on administrative leave for allegedly falsifying documentation on warrants and eviction notices. Now some of the officers' supervisors are firing back, saying the deputies are being forced to sign confessions without proof.
The future of the Collin County arts project is now uncertain after voters in Frisco decided to pull funding during this past weekend's elections.
None of the five candidates for mayor managed to pull 50 percent of the vote, sending former tax assessor Betsy Price and former councilman Jim Lane to a runoff election.
After the list of candidates for Dallas mayor shrunk from four to two this weekend, remaining candidates Mike Rawlings and David Kunkle wasted no time jumping back on the campaign trail.
A man facing a charge of driving while intoxicated has been elected mayor of a small North Texas town, defeating the incumbent.
The debates are finished, the yard signs are in full-force and voters can finally descend to the polls to speak with their ballots on this Election Day.
The Texas Rangers have released new documents into their investigation of the August 2010 shooting outside of the McKinney Public Safety Building, the home of the McKinney Police Department.
George W. Bush says he was "not overjoyed" when President Barack Obama told him Osama bin Laden was dead because the campaign to track down the al-Qaida leader was done not "out of hatred, but to exact judgment."
The duties and mission of a troubled state panel caught up in the review of a contested arson finding in a death penalty case would be cleared up under legislation approved by the Texas Senate on Friday.
Dozens of Dallas County Constable Deputies are accused of not serving papers when they said they did and lying to judges about it.
Voters in Dallas and Fort Worth are preparing to elect new mayors after contentious races for the open seats.
The Texas House passed a bill that would make it a criminal offense to inappropriately touch travelers during airport security pat-downs.
Texas Rep. Ron Paul has officially announced that he's running for president. Paul first ran for president as a Libertarian in 1988.
