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Proposition 5 would authorize the State Commission on Judicial Conduct to hold judicial...

Nelson Wolff, 80, has been county judge since 2001. His decision not to seek reelection...

Demands he resign immediately.

The governor suffered mild symptoms and a brief infection, and encouraged unvaccinated Texans to get the shot.

Reps. Louie Gohmert, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Paul Gosar, together with a small group of Republican members of Congress, traveled to the DC correctional facility that houses the January 6th detainees and requested a tour to observe their conditions. They did this since the administration has so far refused to give them any information regarding the facility. According to Louie Gohmert, they showed their IDs and were eventually told they’d need to wear masks, which they readily...

365 Days of Texas True Crime: Nettie Part 2 18 months after Velma Nesset was murdered and left under a drainage culvert as she walked to work a 22 year-old man was arrested and charged with her murder. Johnny Ray Foote had worked with Nesset at the mall for just a month and he happened to live in the same apartment complex as she did. When police brought him in for questioning they were able to obtain a confession, but was that confession coerced? 244th Judicial District Judge Joe Connally didn...

The activities described below reflect the OAG’s multi-faceted approach to combat trafficking:

A state appeals court has upheld the murder conviction of a Royse City woman, who received the maximum punishment in connection with the shooting death of her husband.

Courtesy Hunt County Detention Center A state appeals court has upheld the murder conviction of a Royse City woman, who received the maximum punishment in connection with the shooting death of her husband. A jury in the 354th District Court sentenced Chacey Poynter to life in prison In June 2019 after finding her guilty in the death of her husband, Robert Louis Poynter III, a University Park Fire Department captain. The Fifth Court of Appeals in Dallas consid...

HOUSTON (AP) — While officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice are blaming miscommunication for preventing reporters from witnessing the state’s first execution in nearly a year, legal and death penalty experts worry its another example of what they see as a lack of transparency and competency in how the death penalty is carried out in the U.S. Two reporters, including one with The Associated Press, had been set to witness Wednesday’s execution of Quintin Jones at t...