The Texas agency overseeing jail standards will heighten its response to Harris County's years-long struggle to meet state ...

Ken Paxton has sent letters to Richardson and Hutto ISDs requesting they turn over their policies related to a state law ...

The Texas Attorney General's Office will now take action to ensure the Harris County Jail gets into compliance. 13 Investigates first reported on the jail's compliance issues in September 2022. Months ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

A federal judge set a trial date in the legal battle by El Paso County over the Texas state immigration law, SB 4.

Steven Nelson, 38, was sentenced to death in 2012, a year after he was found guilty of murdering Arlington pastor Clint ...

AUSTIN — A federal judge Friday partially blocked a 2023 Texas law that required digital service providers to protect minors ...

Texas executed Steven Lawayne Nelson for the murder of Pastor Clint Dobson, with AG Ken Paxton stating that justice was ...

Attorney General Ken Paxton announces the State has come to a $250,000 settlement in a labor trafficking lawsuit against ...

TX Attorney General Paxton investigates Dallas and Irving ISDs over compliance with state laws on women's sports.