The governor called the proposal, including allowing judges to hold some defendants in jail, the 'strongest bail reform ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A push in Texas to ban social media accounts for children under 18 faded Thursday after lawmakers did ...

A bill removing short-barrel or "sawed-off" guns from the state's list of weapons that are banned without federal ...

Texas lawmakers voted to move forward with a bill that would remove short-barrel firearms from the state's list of banned weapons.

More than two thirds of guns recovered at Mexican crime scenes originate in the U.S. For decades, Mexico has struggled with staggering levels of gun violence fueled in large part by weapons trafficked ...

Gun buyback programs run by local governments in Texas could soon be prohibited. The State Senate passed the bill ...

The Lone Star State is the second to pass a law putting the responsibility of age verification on app stores, following Utah’s lead. The Texas law is set to go into effect Jan. 1.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott held up the death penalty when addressing a pair of suspects, both of them undocumented, who were ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened the death penalty for two people accused in a deadly hit-and-run crash on a lake near the ...

The defendant in the Joppatowne High School shooting offered mixed messaging when he took the stand Wednesday as the last witness in his defense. Jaylen Prince, 16, is charged as an adult with ...

Following the arrest of two Venezuelan nationals in connection with a jet ski accident that killed a North Texas teen, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sparked debate by posting on X: “Welcome to Texas… Here’s ...

Gonzalez, a 21-year-old who is a Venezuelan national in the country illegally, left the scene after fatally hitting Moore ...