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Advocates say it’s impossible to know the true number of people who have died from heat-related illnesses in Texas prisons.

A former inmate at the Denton County Jail said medical neglect has led to him needing to have his arm amputated.

A former Southwest flight attendant is suing over her anti-abortion rhetoric after harassing union president.

Since Attorney General Ken Paxton might defend a sodomy ban, here’s a list of 10 other absurd Texas laws.

Texas Democrats have campaigned heavily on abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last week.

Several North Texas pastors praised the reversal of Roe v. Wade in their Sunday sermons.

Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, experts consider what’s next for abortion rights in Texas.

Umeka Treymane Myers spent the money she bilked from a Dallas County jail commissary program in big ways. She bought flights, traveled around the country and went to casinos. Now, she could spend 10 years in a federal prison. Myers, a 49-year-old clerk who worked at the Lew Sterrett Justice…

DeeDee Hall died in police custody, and her family and other organizations are calling it police brutality and discrimination

Betty Jo McClain Thomas was found stabbed to death in her home in 2019. Now, her family is suing Spectrum cable, saying its employment practices led to Thomas’ death.

A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked a Texas law that would prevent large social media companies from banning users and removing content that expressed viewpoints the companies don’t like. The 5-4 decision temporarily stopped any action under Texas’ HB 20, passed with overwhelming GOP support and signed by Gov…

A judge in the tiny Texas county of Loving has been accused of cattle rustling.

Mexican authorities handed the cartel boss over to the U.S. earlier this week.

In an unhinged rant, InfoWars owner Alex Jones screams at viewers to buy products, insisting it’s a matter of “life and death.”

California resident Jeremy Hanson is accused of sending anti-LGBTQ death threats to the University of North Texas’ president, Merriam-Webster and several others.

On Wednesday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals dealt Crystal Mason, who was controversially convicted of illegal voting for submitting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election, what looked like a small win. Mason, a Black woman who had previously been convicted of federal tax fraud, could wind up in…

Late on Monday, Politico revealed that the U.S. Supreme Court had voted to overturn Roe v. Wade ˆ the 1973 decision that ensures the right to an abortion – in a draft decision written by Justice Samuel Alito in February. The court’s decision will not be official until it is…

A Texas sheriff’s resignation is shining new light on an old problem: excessive force.

Texas conspiracy theorist and InfoWars founder Alex Jones just keeps landing in hot water. In December, he got bad press after saying he refused to answer questions from the Congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Now, three of his companies, including the far-right InfoWars, have filed for bankruptcy,…

Another day, another healthcare grifter bites the dust. On Tuesday, a North Texas healthcare company owner was sentenced to prison over fraud charges, according to a press release issued by the U.S. Department of Justice in North Texas. U.S. Senior District Judge Terry Means handed down two years to Steven…

A federal grand jury in East Texas has returned a 15-count indictment against seven alleged MS-13 members accused of carrying out a double murder in a penitentiary in late January, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The seven men allegedly planned and committed an attack on members of the…

Public defenders respond after U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said their “heart is with the murderers, with the criminals” in a recent interview.