The Supreme Court of Texas has asked the public to weigh in on whether it should end its requirement that lawyers admitted in ...

A 17-year-old can’t buy alcohol, guns, lottery tickets and tobacco, vote, enlist in the military or serve on a jury, but ...

Speaking to a gathering of conservative lawyers, judges and students at the University of Texas at Austin Law School on ...

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San Jacinto County prosecuted nearly 300 misdemeanor cases in 2023. In this poor region, nestled in the piney woods of East ...

Texas families have not received a full picture of their schools’ ratings since 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and ...

A man who pleaded guilty to murder in December and was out on bond fatally shot his girlfriend before turning the gun on ...

A fight between the Texas Education Agency or TEA and hundreds of school districts across the state reaching a new level. A ...

A Texas court will consider a request from Suzanne Simpson's husband, the primary suspect in her disappearance and death, to ...

A judge blocked the release of the state’s 2023 school ratings after a lawsuit from more than 120 Texas school districts.