A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set ...

Union Pacific Railroad is shutting down its operations in Palestine, Texas after abandoning a 19th-century jobs pact, ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted an indefinite stay of execution to David Leonard Wood, convicted of six murders ...

All 20 GOP senators signed on to Senate Bill 16, which would apply to currently registered voters, and restrict some to only ...

Amber Laudermilk faces a state jail felony after she allegedly castrated the body of a registered sex offender, police say.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, amid ...

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

The Texas Supreme Court will decide whether lawsuits filed against Texas transmission and distribution utilities after the ...

Lawyers for former Gateway Church pastor Robert Morris have asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed last October ...

A Texas embalmer allegedly abused the corpse of a sex offender by removing the dead man's penis and placing it in the mouth of the dead body. It occurred in the presence of a witness who, according to ...

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, court records ...