The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially back in the prisons.

A former pastor of a Texas megachurch who resigned after a woman accused him of sexually abusing her in the 1980s has been indicted in Oklahoma on child sexual abuse charges.

When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify “woke” themes in a database of grants, AI helped them ...

For four years while President Joe Biden was in office, Texas lawmakers passed a variety of state laws aimed at curbing ...

The DOJ dropped a civil rights lawsuit filed against Southwest Key Programs alleging its employees had sexually abused ...

Aaron Reitz, currently Sen. Ted Cruz's chief of staff, has been nominated to lead the office that helps choose and vet ...

A recurring complaint we hear from police in Dallas is that they arrest dangerous people only to see them released from jail ...

Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 12 other people are scheduled to be put to ...

AUSTIN - A proposal before the Texas Legislature billed as a way to clamp down on squatters would reduce legal protections ...

A Texas appeals court has halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week.