Texas Businesses To Pay More For Jobless Insurance
Jobless insurance rates in Texas will increase by about $5 per worker in 2011 for companies paying the minimum state unemployment tax.
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Jobless insurance rates in Texas will increase by about $5 per worker in 2011 for companies paying the minimum state unemployment tax.
The state's top three elected officials asked Texas agencies Tuesday to plan for additional cuts of 2.5 percent as lawmakers address a budget shortfall expected to exceed $20 billion.
In the deeply Republican state that has executed more convicts than any other and the county that has sent the most to death row, an unusual legal proceeding will begin this week: A Democratic judge will hold a lengthy hearing on the constitutionality of the death penalty in Texas.
Eric Rudd and his 3-year-old daughter spent the afternoon at parkland hospital. It's only fitting, because both Eric and Parkland share a common need; Medicaid.
Texas prosecutors are stepping up their investigation of a lawmaker who admitted he pocketed thousands of dollars in state travel reimbursements, just as officials are laying out plans to tighten ethics rules at the Capitol.
The controversial sobriety checkpoint bill will be re-introduced at the upcoming legislative session.
The need for more highways in North Texas far outstrips the money available to build them.
The conviction of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay doesn't mean the case against him is ending. Rather, it is the beginning of a lengthy appeals process
George W. Bush has joined Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in an exclusive club: presidential authors who have sold at least a million copies of their books.
Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay argued throughout his trial that the deck was stacked against him by a politically motivated prosecutor and a jury from the most Democratic city in one of the most Republican states.
A jury in Austin has convicted former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on charges he illegally funneled corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002.
North Texas Congressman Kenny Marchant had heart double bypass surgery Monday. A spokesperson for the Congressman says Marchant is doing well and ready to go home.
A Watauga man was arrested and jailed for violating the city's sign ordinance and even though charges have been dropped and the ordinance changed, he's making a federal case out of it.
The City of Richardson has been the site of a heated debate over the expansion of a trash collection facility for the past year and a half.
Prosecutors told jurors Monday that former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay that he gave his blessing to a scheme to illegally funnel corporate money to Texas legislative candidates.
