About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.

US District Judge Robert Pitman on Wednesday held Wednesday that the extreme heat in Texas prisons is 'plainly unconstitutional' while denying a temporary injunction request to install air ...

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar has been confirmed as the next chancellor of The Texas A&M University System by a unanimous ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge’s rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ...

Senate Bill 31 supporters say it would clarify when doctors should intervene to save a pregnant woman’s life, but critics say ...

“States don’t have that capability built to handle a disaster every single year,” Lynn Budd, director of the Wyoming Office of Homeland Security, told Stateline in an interview. Access to FEMA avoids ...

The judge ruled Texas prison cell temperatures, which regularly exceed 90 and 100 degrees, likely violate rights against ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional,” but ...

Earlier today, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit upheld a district court temporary restraining order blocking the ...

A Navasota man was arrested Tuesday night and charged with four counts of assault-family violence and assaulting a peace ...