After a roughly 20-minute hearing, Judge Austin Reeve Jackson rejected arguments by Roberson's attorney that his execution should be further delayed because of a pending appeal to the state's highest ...

State Rep. Cody Harris, who chairs the Committee on Natural Resources, says he is hoping to get the groundwater conversation ...

A school district in east Texas says it can no longer run its afterschool program due to federal funding cuts.

The child's grandparents found videos showing Toon aggressively push the child's head and neck into her bed and throw her ...

Officials acknowledged the hardship the change may bring to families and said they are notifying the community as early as possible.

A judge has set a new execution date for a Texas man who had been set last year to become the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby ...

Nestled in the countryside of Smith County, dozens of rows of grapevines line a hilly field, and a new chapter begins for two ...

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‘American Idol' Music Supervisor Robin Kaye & Husband Found Dead in Their Home ...

Two real estate groups have filed permit requests to drill over 40 wells, pulling an estimated 10 to 15 billion gallons of ...

A new report from Stacker using data from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information lists five east Texas ...

Continuing the fight against Red Town Ranch holdings' production permit for 21 high-capacity groundwater wells in Anderson ...