AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The state employment agency has announced a six-week extension of unemployment benefits for jobless Texans who have exhausted their claims. The Texas Workforce Commission said Tuesday the extension is a result [Read More…]
HOUSTON (AP) _ A review of Texas prison records shows juries around the state have sent 398 convicts to prison with no chance of parole in the six years since the life without parole law [Read More…]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ A Texas gun instructor who said he wouldn’t teach Muslims how to handle a firearm won’t lose his state license over the controversial radio spot. The Texas Department of Public Safety [Read More…]
McALLEN, Texas (AP) _ Police say a Texas judge who was secretly videotaped beating his teenage daughter seven years ago won’t face charges because the statutes of limitations have passed. Rockport Police Chief Tim Jayroe [Read More…]
Two people are dead in unrelated fatal accidents Sunday night. The first happened about 9:15 p.m. on North Harvey Mitchell Parkway in Bryan between Turkey Creek and Leonard Road. Police say Tiffany Dawson of Franklin [Read More…]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ For those lawmakers who may have thought the state’s budgetary woes are solved, Representative Jim Pitts gave a reality check: Think again. Pitts, the lead House budget writer, warned his colleagues [Read More…]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The Texas House has approved a bare-bones state budget that makes massive cuts to public education and health care programs for the poor. After more than 21 hours of debate since [Read More…]
LIVINGSTON, Texas (AP) _ Condemned Texas prisoner Cleve Foster says he’s not afraid to die — but he doesn’t want to be a guinea pig. The 47-year-old former Army recruiter would be the first inmate [Read More…]
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