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The Texas Senate is set to weigh a bill that would bar trans individuals from using bathrooms that align with their gender ...

The attorney general’s office would gain authority to prosecute election offenses and make expedited requests to use spy ...

Attorney General Ken Paxton’s agency would be empowered to prosecute election offenses and more quickly request use of spy ...

Senate Bill 240 requires people to use restrooms and locker rooms according to the biological sex stated on their birth certificate.

The bill also requires the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to house inmates in correctional ... Any state or local government entity suspected to be in violation of SB 240 would be subject ...

Moises Mendoza, sentenced to death for the 2004 murder of Rachelle Tolleson, was given a lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville.

The long-running criminal case against a Texas gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack targeting Hispanic shoppers at ...

However, Hays County investigators found out that when Duran worked at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice he was investigated for the trading of contraband and received six months of ...

The long-running criminal case against a Texas gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack targeting Hispanic shoppers at ...