Texas A&M University President Michael K. Young announced Tuesday that he is stepping down from his position at the end of the semester. Chancellor John Sharp has asked Dr. John L. Junkins to serve as Interim President.
Williamson County Judge Bill Gravell pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor Tuesday for violating his own stay-at-home order this spring and will pay a $1,000 fine, court documents show.
Health care workers likely to provide direct care for COVID-19 patients and other vulnerable residents are recommended to be the first group to receive the vaccine.
With El Paso hospitals and ICUs over capacity since last month due to one of the worst COVID-19 surges in the country, three Air Force medical teams have spent the past two weeks deployed to aid in the fight.
With the holidays right around the corner, several Texas organizations came together with the Junior League of Lake Charles to give 500 families some much needed holiday spirit.
Thousands of bags filled with snacks, coupons, and thank you notes have been delivered to nurses in our area. Today alone three thousand were delivered to Northwest Texas Hospital.
Baylor University’s President’s Council Friday declared a moratorium on campus events until Feb. 7 because of the increasing number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on campus.
The percentage of people caught who had tried crossing the border at least once in the previous year was 37% for those expelled from March through September.
A black official in North Texas is getting a private office after speaking out about being relocated to a shared workspace that was near a “Negroes” sign leftover from the segregation era.
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to stop expelling immigrant children who cross the southern border alone, halting a policy that has resulted in thousands of rapid deportations of minors during the coronavirus pandemic.
A veteran Houston police sergeant who was fatally shot last week while trying to intervene in a shootout is being remembered as a leader who dedicated his life to his family and community.
A county’s top elected official says a company that has been the subject of several lawsuits over inmate deaths or injuries is ending its contract with a jail in East Texas that it has run since 2010.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is ruling out another shutdown in Texas as cases soar and thousands of additional medical workers are rushed to overworked hospitals.
UPDATE: Texas Tech has had no discussions about hosting University of New Mexico basketball programs on campus. Facilities will only be used for Texas Tech programs.
The federal government prepared Thursday to execute an inmate who was condemned for kidnapping and raping a 16-year-old Texas girl, bludgeoning her with a shovel and burying her alive.
He said during the radio interview on The Hugh Hewitt Show, “I mean, that (a run for office) wouldn’t be up to me. It would be up to the people more than it would me.”
“The rise in violent crime in the city of Dallas is unacceptable, and the Texas Department of Public Safety will assist the Dallas Police Department in their efforts to protect the community and reduce this surge in crime,” said Governor Abbott.
A statement Tuesday from the Rockwall Police Department identified the men killed in the Thursday crash as 75-year-old Donald L. Wehmeyer and 67-year-old Curtis G. Robertson Jr.
Schovanec says all events and gatherings of more than 10 people scheduled between now and Monday, November 30, 2020, must be moved to an online format or postponed with a few exceptions.
Governor Greg Abbott today announced a $420 million reimbursement program to cover costs incurred by Texas public schools that purchased Wi-Fi hotspots and/or eLearning devices (such as laptops, tablets, and Chromebooks) so students could learn remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pro-life advocates generated the petition after city council originally rejected the ordinance back in September because a law firm, hired by the city, determined the ordinance conflicts with state laws.
The FBI is investigating Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Associated Press reported Tuesday evening, the first public confirmation that law enforcement is vetting allegations made by eight of Paxton’s former top aides that he illegally used the power of his office to benefit a political donor.
A preliminary report into the deadly plane crash that happened on Oct. 26, 2020 in Lubbock says thick ice on the plane is believed to have played a part in the crash.
A drive-thru food pantry in Dallas distributed 600,000 pounds of food on Saturday to 25,000 people, many of whom received turkeys as part of their bundles.
The morgue in El Paso is so overwhelmed by the number of people dying from COVID-19, that inmates from the county’s detention facility are being brought in to assist with the overflow of bodies awaiting autopsy.
David Maxwell and Mark Penley, then two top aides to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, reported separately to the agency’s offices, where, they claim, they were subjected to hours of “irregularities, harassment and retaliation.” Then, they say, when pressured to resign, they refused.
A 32-year-old Bowie County, Texas, man has been sentenced to prison for distribution of child pornography in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
County commissioners in Texas have decided to drop their lawsuit against the outgoing sheriff for inviting A&E Network’s real-time police show “Live PD” to continue filming daily patrols even after the county ended the contract.
The surge in coronavirus infections is prompting the lone Republican in charge of one of the state's top five urban counties to appeal for the power to fine those not wearing face masks.
The U.S. Marshals Service says agents working on a fugitive task force in Tennessee have arrested three people charged in unrelated killings in Ohio and Texas.
Former deputies to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are suing him for wrongful firing and retaliating against them for reporting him for alleged bribery and abuse of office.
A suspect is in police custody at a Lubbock hospital after an early morning police chase that ended with a stolen vehicle crash and a police vehicle crash.
DSHS will allocate this initial distribution of bamlanivimab based on three criteria: new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the community, new lab-confirmed COVID-19 admissions to hospitals, and total lab-confirmed COVID-19 patients in hospitals.
