MONTGOMERY, Ala.A judge has refused to stop the nations third scheduled execution by nitrogen gas that is set to take place in Alabama later this month. U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker Jr. on Wednesday denied a preliminary injunction request to block Alabama from executing Carey Dale Grayson on Nov. 21 using the same nitrogen […]

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas will honor Cecile Richards with the Gertrude Shelburne Humanitarian Award at its 34th annual Dallas Awards event on Wednesday, Nov. 20, beginning at 10:30 a.m. at the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House. Co-chairs for the event are Jessica Bass Bolander, Abbie Miller Evans and Missy Rogers Peck. Richards, daughter of beloved Texas Gov. Ann Rich...

Texas state troopers discovered two young siblings, ages 4 and 7, with an Alabama address written on a piece of paper near the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas on Wednesday.

Billy Napier did not sound overly optimistic Lagway would return from the Grade 2 strain in time to face the nation's top-ranked defense, positioning third-string walk-on quarterback Aidan Warner to make his first college start.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Creighton starting guard Pop Isaacs is being held out of the 15th-ranked Bluejays opener against UT-Rio Grande Valley with an undisclosed injury. The transfer from Texas Tech was on the court in street clothes during pregame warmups. Isaacs had surgery last spring to repair a hip injury. Mason Miller took Isaacs spot in the lineup. Isaacs scored a team-high 24 points ...

The stunning move comes three months after Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin revoked the shocking plea deals handed out to Mohammed and two alleged accomplices by the Office of Military Commissions in July.

A judge at the military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has ruled that plea bargains struck by alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two codefendants were valid, striking down an order by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to throw out the plea deals and continue to trial, a government official said Wednesday.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) Florida quarterback DJ Lagway is practicing in a limited capacity despite a strained left hamstring. The Gators officially list Lagway as questionable to play at No. 5 Texas on Saturday. Lagway was carted off the field in the second quarter of last weekends 34-20 loss to second-ranked Georgia. He tweaked his hamstring during a 3-yard run in the second quarter. He r...

Bleacher Report's Kristopher Knox lists Houston Texans WR Stefon Diggs as a possible free agent target for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The post Buccaneers Predicted to Target Former $96 Million WR in Free Agency appeared first on Heavy.com.

President-elect Donald Trump won the county in the United States with the highest percentage of Latinos by 16 points after losing it by 60 points in 2016. Latinos make up 97.7% of Starr County, which is situated on the Texas-Mexico border. The county voted Democrat in every presidential election since 1892, usually voting 80%-90% for […]

SAN ANTONIO (AP) A Texas appeals court ordered a new trial Wednesday for a Jewish man on death row who was part of a gang of prisoners that fatally shot a police officer in 2000 after escaping because of antisemitic bias by the judge who presided over his case.Lawyers for Randy Halprin have c...

Misnamed commission oversees the state's vast oil and gas industry. Critics say it's all a smoke screen.The post For the Texas Railroad Commission, the Last Train Left Years Ago appeared first on .

U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker Jr. denied an attempt to prevent Alabama from using nitrogen gas to execute Grayson.

Buc-ee's has inquired about land in El Paso County.

Yesterday’s election was a bitter disappointment for Texas Democrats. While there was some optimism that the state could potentially elect a statewide Democratic candidate for the first time in nearly thirty years, Texas lurched farther to the right. Ted Cruz easily won his re-election by over ten

The city of Amarillo, in the Texas Panhandle, has emerged as one of the strongholds of the anti-abortion movement in that state and around the country, not least because its sole federal judge, a far-right Trump appointee, has been so willing to rubber-stamp conservative challenges to reproductive health options like the abortion pill and birth […]

Border Patrol sources say migrants groups are trying to rush into the US before Trump takes office and enacts much tougher policies for illegal immigrants.

U.S. Border Patrol agents reacted ecstatically to news that President-elect Donald Trump will return to the White House after defeating Vice President Kamala Harris. “We have hope. We can take care of our country and our citizens. Do what we took an oath to do. Bring pride back to our agency,” a senior Border Patrol agent in Texas […]

"We're closer than ever to securing a vote on Texas independence," Texas Nationalist Movement President Daniel Miller said.

The Riverland Community College mens soccer team came up short in the Midwest District Championship when it lost at Jolie Junior College (11-5-2 overall) 4-1 on Saturday. Austin grad Poe Reh scored the lone goal for the Blue Devils (9-4-3 overall) on an assist from Austin grad Nick Asmus.The post