The shocking move by the entire-Republican court bought 57-year-old Robert Roberson more time to plead his case after having spent 20 years on condemned row.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against a UT Southwestern associate professor and physician, accusing her of administering gender transition treatments to minors, marking the state's latest move concerning transgender-related issues.
The execution of Robert Roberson, 57, is slated for Thursday evening after having spent 20 years on condemned row for the capital murder of his 2-year-old daughter Nikki Curtis in Palestine, Texas in 2002.
A federal judge in Texas ruled that a statute frequently used by Attorney General Ken Paxton to investigate companies and nonprofits in the state is unconstitutional.
The deadly blaze allegedly triggered by 38-year-old Mirsa Lopez at a Dallas mobile home park Saturday caused damage to four homes and as many vehicles.
Thirteen preteen cheerleaders at a Texas middle school suffered severe burns after their coach forced them to crawl a mile on 125-degree pavement as punishment for performing a "disrespectful" routine—an act parents are calling "malicious" and demanding criminal charges.
In April, a judge found Williams' 34-year-old boyfriend Brian Ward Coulter guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole following a five-day bench trial.
Jennifer Massey, a 51-year-old teacher at Davenport High School in San Antonio, Texas, was charged with improper relationship between educator and student.
Garcia Glen White, 61, was convicted in the 1989 murders of teen twin sisters and their mom, but he also confessed to fatally beating Greta Williams, 27.
A Black high school student in Texas, who was given back-to-back in-school suspensions at the start of this school year and transferred out of the district because his mental health was suffering, requested a federal judge's assistance in getting him back to the school to complete his senior year.
