A Texas woman who is 20-weeks pregnant and whose foetus has been diagnosed with a fatal condition has asked a court to allow her to have an abortion. Texas is one of 13 states that bans […]
A man who strangled a five-year-old girl to death after kidnapping her from a Walmart store while her family were Christmas shopping has been executed. David Renteria, 53, was given a lethal injection at the […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been acquitted of corruption charges following an impeachment process which divided Republicans governing the US state. Mr Paxton – a Donald Trump ally – can resume his work in […]
A federal judge in Texas has ruled that a longstanding programme protecting migrants who came to the US as children from deportation is unlawful. The judge, however, did not grant a request to terminate those […]
A Texas woman has been charged with threatening to kill a judge who is overseeing a criminal case against former US President Donald Trump. Abigail Jo Shry, 43, allegedly phoned the court in Washington DC […]
A Texas jury has awarded a woman $1.2bn (£944m) after ruling that she was the victim of revenge porn. The woman, who was named only by the initials DL in court documents, filed a harassment […]
Family members of inmates at a jail in Harris County, Texas are suing the county over claims officers brutally beat their loved ones and denied them critical medical treatment. Attorney Ben Crump has filed a […]
The Biden administration has sued Texas over a floating barrier installed by the state in the Rio Grande river to deter migrants on the US-Mexico border. The barrier, made partly of orange buoys attached by […]
As temperatures rise, prisoners locked in cells without air conditioning – and the staff guarding them – are struggling. Calvin Johnson spent 37 years in a Texas state prison, including 37 summers in a jail […]
The Texas gunman who killed 23 people at a Walmart in 2019 has been sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences in federal prison. The 24-year-old had pleaded guilty after federal prosecutors said they would not […]
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