Texas Government News

State District Judge Gracie Lewis Friday recommended the exoneration of a Texas man who's served 12 years in prison for a rape that prosecutors now say DNA testing shows he did not commit.

Two men were arrested after two children were left inside a locked car for about 30 minutes outside a gas station in Hitchcock.

Women and their children walk on the tarmac after being deported from the US at the airport in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

President Barack Obama met with Central American leaders on Friday over the surge of migrant youth at the southern border with solutions to the crisis so far proving elusive.

Three heavily armed Texas patrol boats rounded a bend in the Rio Grande on a recent afternoon and came upon two young men paddling an inflatable raft full-speed ahead toward the Mexican shore.

Believe it or not, the state of Texas needs to spend money every year just to maintain current and ever-growing levels of traffic .

The immigration issue has percolated a long time now. For years, reformers attempted to pass comprehensive legislation in Congress only to get opposition from extreme, xenophobic forces within the Republican Party.

Hamas says the lifting of an Israeli and Egyptian blockade must be addressed in tandem with a truce.

The editor and publisher of an election forecasting newsletter that has been dubbed " the bible of the political community " told Business Insider he's "skeptical" Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2016.

Molly Redden at Mother Jones reports that a draconian year-old law enacted specifically to shut down as many Texas abortion clinics as possible is having the desired effect.

The Obama administration, after initially resisting the idea, is weighing whether to deploy National Guard troops to the southern border to help address a surge of migrant youth from Central America, many of them unaccompanied, a White House official told CNN.

State health and law enforcement officials are to testify about human trafficking before a panel of state lawmakers in South Texas.

House Republicans unveiled a plan Wednesday to address the southern border crisis, recommending that the National Guard assist in humanitarian care of the influx of minors entering the country.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has distributed $205 million in taxpayer money to scores of technology startups using a pet program designed to bring high-paying jobs and innovation to the nation's second most-populous state.

The decision by the State of Texas to team up with License Plates of Texas LLC has paid big dividends.

An analysis of the first six months of Seattle police enforcement under new marijuana laws finds homeless people and African American males are more likely to be ticketed for public pot use than anyone else.

The immigration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border continues. On Tuesday Gov. Rick Perry activated up to 1,000 National Guard troops to aid in border security.

Texas Governor, Rick Perry is the latest public figure and celebrity to welcome the Texas International Firearms Festival to Austin, Texas, on November 8-9, 2014.

Two police officers were shot Tuesday while trying to serve an arrest warrant in La Joya and the wanted man was barricaded inside a house with the wounded officers early Tuesday evening.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry's decision to send 1,000 National Guardsmen to the border on an ill-defined mission will waste taxpayer dollars and not address any real problems currently facing the state.