Texas

A California judge has dismissed a Twitter lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in which the social media company accused the Republican of using his office to retaliate for Twitter’s banning the account of former President Donald Trump.

Five young undocumented migrants, including a 2-year-old and an infant, were by themselves when they were apprehended in South Texas at the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities said Monday. The oldest of the migrants, all of whom were girls from Honduras and Guatemala, was 7, Customs and Border Protection said in a statement. None needed medical attention, the agency said. An...

Texas death row inmate Quintin Jones is scheduled to be executed May 19. But Jones is pleading to Gov. Greg Abbott for clemency, telling the New York Times contributor Suleika Jaouad that he is a different person than he was 2 decades ago. Jones was put on death row after confessing to the murder of his great-aunt. His family has...

Federal prosecutors say a Dallas man has been arrested on a charge of smuggling migrants after more than three dozen people were found in and around a big rig that was stopped near San Antonio

The discovery was made at a truck stop when a nearby driver notice something suspicious and called the police.

Joanna Gaines usually sports long, sleek waves on screen, but she’s giving fans a glimpse of her natural hair texture. The “Fixer Upper: Welcome Home” star just shared a very relatable photo in her Instagram story, showing how much natural volume her hair has before being styled. “It takes about 1.5 hours to tame this mane. And since it’s...

Five people have been charged after 97 migrants were found in a Houston house Friday in what authorities think is a smuggling operation, federal prosecutors said Monday.

A Texas woman was charged with a felony for not returning a VHS tape of “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” that was rented over 20 years ago

Authorities investigating a reported kidnapping Friday came upon an alleged human smugglers’ house holding more than 90 migrants, some with COVID-19 symptoms, Houston police said. Investigators worked overnight to track down the location in southwest Houston after receiving a call about a potential kidnapping late Thursday, said Assistant Chief Daryn Edwards of the Houston Police Department. None of the migrants was...

Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen, who authorities say was killed by a fellow soldier last year, had previously been sexually harassed by a supervisor but unit leadership took no action, according to an Army report released Friday

In their desperation during deadly winter storms, thousands of Texans unwittingly unleashed deadly gases into homes and apartments that, in many cases, were not equipped with potentially lifesaving carbon monoxide alarms

Sheriff’s deputies worked to catch a bovine spotted on Houston’s 10 East on Wednesday morning.

A George Floyd mural in Houston was defaced with a racial slur overnight Thursday, a little more than a day after the former police officer who kneeled on his neck was found guilty of murder in Minnesota.

A Virginia truck driver wanted in Texas for sexual assault of a child was found in Rhode Island with a teenage girl reported missing nearly a year ago, authorities said.

A manhunt is underway for a former sheriff’s deputy wanted in the fatal shooting of three people in Austin, Texas.

George and Emily Spurrier are leaving their home of 16 years in central Arkansas due to a new law that will ban the health care that they say their 17-year-old transgender son needs, NBC News reports.

Three people were fatally shot in Austin Sunday afternoon. No suspect is currently in custody.

A Texas man who drove a pickup truck involved in a deadly head-on crash that killed eight migrants he was carrying near a Texas border city has been indicted.

An 8-month-old boy died Saturday after being shot by his 3-year-old brother at a Houston apartment, police said. Assistant Chief Wendy Baimbridge of the Houston Police Department indicated the shooting unfolded accidentally after the toddler picked up an unsecured firearm. Two family members drove the baby boy to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, she said. A subsequent search…

The names of 13 of the 22 women who have filed lawsuits accusing Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual assault and harassment will be made public following court hearings