A former actress from Texas pleaded guilty Tuesday to sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, under a deal that her attorney has said would cap prison time at 18 years.
A U.S. appeals court on Thursday issued a ruling reinstating most of Texas’ tough new abortion restrictions, which means as many as 12 clinics won’t be able to perform the procedure starting as soon as Friday.
San Antonio’s leaders on Thursday approved anti-bias protections for gay and transgender residents, despite the disapproval of top Texas Republicans and religious conservatives.
Dr. Howard Novick winces as he recalls treating two and three women a week for infections and complications from botched abortions. It was the early 1970s, before the procedure was legalized, and the experience persuaded him to devote his life to this area of medicine.
Amid the deafening roar of abortion rights supporters, Texas Republicans huddled around the Senate podium to pass legislation that is expected to close almost every abortion clinic in the second most populous US state.
Texas’ lieutenant governor late Tuesday suspended a female senator’s marathon speech aimed at blocking a vote on wide-ranging abortion restrictions , but Democrats moved quickly to appeal the decision.
Authorities say a man suspected in a West Texas shooting rampage that left one woman dead and five others wounded was stationed at a Marine base in North Carolina.
Two people are dead and five injured after a gunman in Texas shot at several vehicles, apparently at random, authorities said Monday.
At least six people were killed Wednesday as a spring tornado outbreak devastated parts of Texas, destroying or damaging dozens of homes and injuring dozens of people.
Rescuers searched the smoking remnants of a Texas farm town Thursday for survivors of a thunderous fertilizer plant explosion, gingerly checking smashed houses and apartments for anyone still trapped in debris while the community awaited word on the number of dead.
A man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend by dousing her with gasoline and setting her on fire was executed in Texas on Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court refused his final appeal.
At least two people were reportedly shot at a Texas college Tuesday, US media reported but few details were available.
In this tiny Texas town, children and their parents don’t give much thought to safety at the community’s lone school — mostly because some of the teachers are carrying concealed weapons.
