Texas has executed Sandoval Mendoza, a rapist and killer described by one prosecutor as one of the most "violent, sadistic men" he'd ever encountered." Mendoza, 40, was executed by lethal ...

Texas has experienced a surge in seismic activity over the past few hours, with a swarm of quakes shaking the western part of the state. The latest tremor, a magnitude 3.3, hit at 8:43am ET ...

Texas and Texas A&M meeting in baseball for the first time as SEC rivals didn't need anything extra. It didn't need Texas coming in as No. 1. It didn't need the resurgent Aggies coming off wins ...

Online courier services, which buy and deliver lotto tickets on behalf of customers, are banned in Texas after two controversial lottery drawings. The Texas Lottery Commission (TLC) is being sued ...

A Republican-authored proposal in the Texas Legislature seeks to open up state funds aimed at encouraging fossil fuel development to a form of renewable energy. The bill, which passed unanimously ...

Texas Senators, guided by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, voted to approve the Texas House-changed school voucher bill, teeing it up for what will likely be Gov. Greg Abbott's immediate signing of his ...

A record-breaking, triple-digit wind gust roared through part of Texas on Tuesday, but it wasn’t from a tornado or a hurricane. An airport weather station in Midland, Texas, recorded a wind gust ...

The measles outbreak in Texas has surpassed 600 confirmed cases in 2025, with nearly 30 new infections reported since April 18, the state health department said. As of April 22, there have been ...

Moises Mendoza, who was convicted in 2005 of killing a Farmersville woman, became the third inmate Texas has put to death this year. On Wednesday, Moises Mendoza, 41, became the third inmate ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday signed a bill into law that will create an efficiency office in Texas. It would be one similar to the federal government's Department of Government ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The executive director of the Texas Lottery Commission has resigned, the latest shake-up at the state’s retail gambling enterprise amid multiple investigations into jackpots in ...

Meteorologists issued flash flood warnings across north-central Texas as much of the central U.S. braces for a series of thunderstorms that threaten to spin up tornadoes, trigger flash flooding ...