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"I was really scared ... when I rolled my dad over the middle of his head was bleeding and his face was already purple," the mans 11-year-old son said.

Three weeks remain in the 2023 Texas legislative session with a bill under consideration that could ultimately throw out future election results in the states most populated county. Harris County, home of Houston and almost 5 million residents, is the target of two Senate bills that would eliminate the elections administrator position there and return all election duties to the county tax assessor-collector and county clerk. It comes on the heels of S.B. ...

New lawsuits are likely coming in Texas as LGBTQ+ people working for the state are now being targeted in dress code regulations. Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller has issued an order to his employees to dress "in a manner consistent with their biological gender" as part of a dress code and grooming policy. Brian Klosterboer, attorney for the ACLU of Texas, said the new policy violates Title Seven, which bans employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender id...

Massachusetts lawmakers in Congress have reintroduced legislation which would allow people to sue police officers and other state and local government officials. The Ending Qualified Immunity Act would eliminate the doctrine created by the Supreme Court, which protects police officers from individual liability for violating a persons constitutional rights. Rep. ...

Connecticut advocates are calling on the General Assembly to pass the states Voting Rights Act. The bill would enshrine the protections of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, and eliminate certain barriers to voting specific to Connecticut. The bill would provide new legal tools to fight discriminatory voting rules, expand language assistance for voters with limited English, and adopt strong protections against voter intimidation. ...

By Jessica Pishko for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.Broadcast version by Roz Brown for Texas News Service reporting for the Pulitzer Center-Public News Service Collaboration. Last summer, the sheriff of Coryell County in Central Texas took to an elevated platform in a small Las Vegas ballroom and made an unusual announcement: He was a “born-again sheriff,” he said, having “realized that I wasn’t doing my job 100%.” Sheriff Scott Willia...

Some 50 Texas sheriffs and numerous elected officials have attended trainings on the unsupported notion that sheriffs can single-handedly overrule state and federal law. The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement is now investigating.

Bosque County schools and law enforcement are joining together to improve school safety plans in the wake of the Uvalde massacre.

Sheriff Trace Hendricks said it was time to place the safety of our children and school faculty as priority number one.

Divers searching for the remains of a man who has been missing since 2009 made an...