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More than a month after the incident, the Texas state trooper who made contact with the Gamecocks player remains unidentified.

The federal government is pre-emptively thwarting immigrants from getting identification cards — and simultaneously creating an inconvenience for legally Texas DPS offices are now enforcing a law that ...

The attorney general's complaint form is the latest effort to enforce new state restrictions on which restrooms transgender people can use in public buildings.

In its first week, one group’s test of the new restrictions was met with ID checks at women’s restrooms at the Capitol while the Austin City Council moved to circumvent the law's intent.

Officials say emergency crews are responding to a small plane crash near Galveston, Texas. The crash on Monday took place near the base of a causeway near Galveston, which is located along the ...

Quiet changes to ID requirements meant to curb those without legal status from registering or renewing vehicle registrations will affect all Texas motorists. The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles ...

A woman was arrested in Midland County and charged with online promotion of prostitution; she’s held on $100K bail.

Carrollton police make a swift arrest after a watch theft during a marketplace meetup, emphasizing the security benefits of ...

In the week since Texas’ new “bathroom bill” designed to target transgender people went into effect, some opponents of the ...

Just over a month after a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper caused a scene by elbowing a pair of South Carolina football players during the Gamecocks’ game at Texas A&M, one of those USC ...

News outlets and other groups fear this will do the opposite of what agencies say encryption is intended to prevent: ...