Two people have been arrested and charged with performing illegal abortions at a Houston-area health clinic, the first criminal charges brought under the state’s near-total abortion ban. Maria ...

SB 1026 would amend Chapter 402 to grant jurisdiction to the attorney general to prosecute election crimes referred to the AG ...

Critics fear increased election prosecutions could intimidate voters and local election officials. Attorney General Ken Paxton has long sought more autonomy over election cases. Ken Paxton ...

Some Texas Republican lawmakers are reviving a previously stalled effort to expand the Texas attorney general’s power to ...

HOUSTON — The Texas Department of Licensing and Registration has suspended the midwifery license of a woman accused of performing illegal abortions at her three clinics in the Houston area.

The highest court in Texas on Tuesday issued a rare stay of execution for David Leonard Wood, who has always denied being the so-called Desert Killer and reiterated his innocence in a recent ...

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Texas’ free newsletter here. Some Texas Republican lawmakers are ...

AUSTIN, Texas (TEXAS TRIBUNE) -Some Texas Republican lawmakers are reviving a previously stalled effort to expand the Texas attorney general’s power to prosecute election crimes. The long-running push ...

David Wood, 67, is scheduled to be executed Thursday. Wood was convicted in 1992 of capital murder in the killings of six women in the El Paso area over the course of several months in 1987.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has announced that his office will be opening a criminal investigation into Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate, a week after the controversial brothers arrived in ...