Lanora Pettit, Texas AG Paxton's principal deputy solicitor general, is leaving. Pettit is joining the Trump administration's DOJ as a deputy assistant attorney general. Pettit developed a ...

SB 846, filed by Sen. Bryan Hughes would give unprecedented prosecutorial powers to the attorney general on issues of voter ...

The settlement amount is equal to the maximum fine for a violation of Texas’s civil anti-trafficking law. The case dates back to 2021, when Attorney General Paxton brought a civil racketeering action ...

The Texas Attorney General's Office has accepted a case against San Angelo Police Officer Joshua Loudermilk after an internal investigation revealed guns surrendered to the department were later ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R ) authorized the state’s National Guard to arrest illegal immigrants in an effort to support the ...

On Wednesday morning, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that the state had reached a $250,000 settlement in a labor trafficking lawsuit against Austin Eco Bilingual School, a Spanish ...

Texas National Guard soldiers can arrest and detain people for entering the U.S. illegally from Mexico under an agreement ...

Criminal cases against at least two of County Judge Lina Hidalgo’s former employees are slated for dismissal by the Office of ...

Governor Greg Abbott announced Sunday that the Texas National Guard has been authorized to carry out immigration arrests ...

As Governor Greg Abbott officially sets his agenda for lawmakers with Sunday’s State of the State Address, border security ...

With Texas football now in the offseason, the American-Statesman is breaking down each position group. Who’s gone from the 2024 squad that went 13-3 and fell one win short of a national title ...

US Attorney General-designate Pam Bondi advanced past the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday on a party-line basis, teeing her up for a full-chamber confirmation vote. Bondi, 59, cleared the ...