Texas

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed suit against three more Texas school districts defying Governor Greg Abbott’s executive order preventing mask mandates, including the Sherman Independent School District.

The Texas Supreme Court declined Thursday to block restraining orders against Gov. Greg Abbott’s mask mandate ban.

As the COVID-19 pandemic pushes Texas hospitals to the brink, local officials in two of the state’s most populous counties have turned to the courts.

If you’re a college sports fan, then you’ve probably heard the news: Texas and Oklahoma are likely leaving the Big 12 and may be headed to the SEC.

49-year-old James Michael Perkins was arrested on June 30,2021 in Cookesville, Tennessee for child sex crimes.

Texas Democratic lawmakers are suing Republican Gov. Greg Abbott after he vetoed Capitol paycheck funds because they walked out to block sweeping new voting restrictions.

Civil rights organizations and people who were part of a Biden campaign caravan last fall that was surrounded on a Texas highway by Trump supporters have filed two federal lawsuits, including allegations that local law enforcement failed to respond to efforts to intimidate them.

A new Texas law that would require any driver who hurts or kills a pedestrian to have their blood screened for drugs or alcohol will go into effect September 1st.

Texas will now let people carry handguns without first getting a background check and training, becoming the latest and largest on a growing list of states to roll back permitting requirements for carrying guns in public.

On Thursday, Governor Greg Abbott signed seven bills into law regarding the 2nd Amendment.

A Blue Alert issued early Monday for a man wanted in connection with a shooting that left a Texas police officer injured was lifted late Wednesday afternoon, but the suspect is still at large.

The council said they’ve been operating on tight grid conditions due to forced generation outages and potential record electric use.

Texas Republicans are pressing ahead with their push for tougher election laws after Democrats’ defiant weekend walkout stopped one of the nation’s most restrictive voting measures.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order Tuesday that bars counties, cities, school districts, public health authorities and government officials from mandating face masks effective Saturday.

Texas on Monday joined the growing number of states that will stop paying the federally funded $300 in extra pandemic-related weekly unemployment aid as businesses that scaled back or shuttered during the pandemic are reopening

Authorities are searching for a Texas man whose tiger was found wandering around a residential area in Houston on Sunday night.

Texas would ban abortions after as early six weeks - before many women know they are pregnant - and allow private citizens to enforce the rule through civil lawsuits against doctors and others under a measure given preliminary approval by the GOP-dominated state House on Wednesday.

Texas would allow people to carry handguns without a license, and the background check and training that go with it, under a measure approved by the state Senate on Wednesday.

A Texas lawyer known as the “DWI Dude” has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison for falsely promising Colombian drug traffickers he’d get their charges reduced in exchange for cash.

A statewide Amber Alert was in effect Monday for a 4-year-old Texas boy whose disappearance is connected to a weekend shooting.

Texas’ torrid growth over the past decade is paying off with a major boost in political clout - two additional congressional seats and electoral votes deepening its already massive influence in the nation’s politics.

A year ago Wednesday, a Denison teacher, mother and wife was hit and killed by a truck while walking in her neighborhood.

The Sherman City Council approved a company to design a back-up power system for the city’s wastewater treatment plant.

City documents say that a new Taco Bell could be coming to Sherman.

A crash just outside of Denison shut down a highway for half an hour and left two people injured.

JD Martinez is leaving the Sherman Bearcats after being named head coach and athletic director at Bridgeport High School.

Traffic was blocked off Monday morning near a major Sherman highway as crews were called to a house fire.

Early voting has began for city and school elections throughout Grayson County.

Texas authorities say two people have been killed in the fiery crash of a Tesla that had no one in the driver’s seat.

April is distracted driving awareness month and, according to AAA, more than half of Texas drivers admitted to using their cellphones while driving, but that number could be much higher.