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One lane of Texas 71 West where a tanker flipped over Tuesday could remain closed today as cleanup continues.

Clearing Joe Horn doesn't make law-abiding Texans any safer. Texas tradition and the letter of the law protected 61-year-old Joe Horn this week, when a grand jury declined to charge him for killing two ...

There's no excuse to drink and drive this Fourth of July holiday. Midway Wrecker Service will do the driving for you.

Barely a year after Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed into law this state's version of "Jessica's Law" - last year's legislation that brought the death penalty into play for repeat child sexual predators - a Supreme ...

Shoring up on first floor complete; crews now working to secure second floor. By Mike Ward AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Wednesday, July 02, 2008 Constructing a temporary roof to protect the fire-gutted Texas ...

Notes: To Kill or Not To Kill: That is the question still presented to juries in capital cases in the United States, one of the few countries remaining in the world to employ the death penalty.

Chet Culver is urging the Environmental Protection Agency to deny a request by the state of Texas to waive the U.S. Renewable Fuels Standard, which helps to subsidize ethanol.

Traffic deaths in Texas dropped in 2007 for the fifth consecutive year, despite an increase in the number of cars and drivers on state roadways, according to the Texas Department of Transportation.

Gov. Rick Perry has set a Nov. 4 special election to fill House District 81, vacated by the death of Rep.

Governor Rick Perry says a Brazilian textiles company will open a denim manufacturing plant in Edinburg that will create 800 jobs.

A fourth man has been indicted in connection with a bribes-for-contracts scheme at the Texas Department of Transportation.

Four public interest groups today unveiled a campaign to expand Texans' ability to buy private health insurance.

Flanked by Gov. Rick Perry and a host of other elected officials, leaders of a Brazilian denim manufacturer this morning announced plans for a Rio Grande Valley textile plant that will bring 800 jobs to the Rio ...

An article in the Houston Chronicle this week traces Texas Governor Rick Perry's request for a waiver of the Renewable Fuels Standard back to a March 25 meeting with Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim, owner of Pilgrim's ...

A fourth man has been indicted in connection with a bribes-for-contracts scheme at the Texas Department of Transportation, authorities said.

The U.S. Supreme Court continued to narrow the use of the death penalty Wednesday by declaring capital punishment for child rapists unconstitutional.

Several months before a fire nearly destroyed the Texas Governor's Mansion, the building administrator told security officials that one trooper might not be enough to guard the historic building during ...

By ANNA M. TINSLEY Part of Jessica's Law in Texas will be no more.All due to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Wednesday in a Louisiana case striking down the death penalty for child rapists, when there is no ...

More than four dozen House Republicans asked the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to reduce required ethanol production this year, saying renewable fuel standards enacted by Congress will boost already ...

In late April, during a Capitol press conference in advance of a daylong meeting of stakeholders cops, judges, lawmakers, professors of law, and exonerees for a forum on wrongful convictions, event organizer ...