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A Texas child protective services worker was fired this month after she was caught on video telling a 14-year-old girl she should consider sex work, state officials said Sunday.

Video of the Texas gubernatorial candidate’s exchange at a town hall in rural Mineral Wells drew millions of views on social media.

Democratic candidate for Texas Governor Beto O’Rourke was speaking about the recent mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, at a town hall in Mineral Wells, Texas, when he was interrupted by the laughter of a heckler.

President Joe Biden says the U.S. is certain that the Syrian government is holding American journalist Austin Tice who went missing in the war-torn country a decade ago urging Damascus to help bring him back home.

A Little League batter who got hit in the helmet by a pitch during a regional tournament game Tuesday rose to comfort the distraught pitcher in a remarkable act of sportsmanship.

The performance, produced and livestreamed by The Door Christian Fellowship Ministries, included several biblical references not originally included in the musical.

On Aug. 3, 2019, a man shot and killed 23 people at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, a community where 85% of residents are Hispanic. In English and Spanish, survivors told LX News’ Marcel Clarke and Beth Peak about witnessing the tragedy, helping victims at the scene, and their healing process still underway three years later. Warning: some...

Roy James Holden had performed a service call at the home of Betty Thomas, 83, in December 2019. He returned the next day off duty, robbed her and killed her

A U.S. defense contractor and his wife, who lived for decades under the identities of two dead Texas children, have been charged with identity theft and conspiring against the government, according to federal court records unsealed in Honolulu

A lack of water also means a lack of grass for cattle to eat, and that’s impacting local economies that rely on beef and dairy production. Texas A&M professor and livestock economist David P. Anderson joins LX News to discuss how the Texas drought is impacting ranchers.

Federal investigators are asking that two people living in Hawaii under the assumed names of dead Texas children be held without bail.

According to government documents, Walter Glenn Primrose, also known as Bobby Edward Fort, and Gwynn Darle Morrison, also known as Julie Lyn Montague, were arrested on Friday morning.

In the aftermath of the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, families of victims and many residents are navigating mixed emotions as they channel their grief and fury into demands for change.

Two men were indicted Wednesday in the case of a hot, airless tractor-trailer rig found last month with 53 dead or dying migrants in San Antonio, officials said.

Climate change makes extreme weather more frequent and intense, and heat waves are no exception. Each day. Climate Central’s new Climate Shift Index shows you where weather patterns are most connected to climate change. Climate storyteller Chase Cain joins LX News host Marcel Clarke to show the index and how it depicts Texas and New Mexico during this heat...

Summers are getting hotter each year in the U.S., with warming increasing the fastest in the western and southwestern parts of the country. Climate change is making extreme weather events more intense and more frequent, whether they are droughts or heat, explains NBC 5 meteorologist Samantha Davies. She joined LX News Now to discuss the Texas heat.

The lawsuit, which names the Department of Health and Human Services and Secretary Xavier Becerra among its defendants, says the guidance issued by the Biden administration earlier this week is unlawful, and that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act does not cover abortions.

After officials retracted statements and others

Expectant mom Brandy Bottone got a ticket in Dallas, Texas recently, for driving in the HOV (carpool) lane with fewer than 2 people in the vehicle. But Bottone argued that her unborn child should count as her second passenger. The county sheriff’s officers who ticketed her did not buy it. Bottone joins LX News Now to share her story of...

At a news conference Friday, ahead of All-Star festivities in Chicago, the WNBA stepped up its campaign for the release of Brittney Griner from her detention in Russia.