The justices ordered the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to take a new look at the case of Ashtian Barnes ...

The county has failed to comply with Texas' mandated ratio of one detention officer for every 48 inmates, Sheriff Byron Lyons ...

In an appeal filed this week, Maria Rojas’ attorneys accused Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office of a careless investigation ...

Nearly 200 officials from public radio stations across the country are descending on Capitol Hill to seek to convince ...

Brett Detamore, 40, was ordered by a U.S. district judge to pay $2.3 million in restitution to more than 10 victims of the ...

Texas school districts' best chance of seeing a significant increase in per student funding next year now appears unlikely.

The arguments focused on a separate question: can federal district court judges rule against the administration on a nationwide basis.

Police officers for the City of Houston are in line for a 36.5% pay increase over the next five years under a recently ...

A $150 million donation by the Kinder Foundation will fuel a new healthcare facility focused on combating childhood cancer as ...

The Houston school district uses an at-large voting system to elect its seven trustees, instead of a system in which board ...

Current state law allows children as young as 16 to marry if they are legally emancipated from their parents, a situation ...

U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, a Houston Democrat, visited the 11-year-old girl and her family last week in Mexico. Garcia says ...