State News

A Texas man who confessed in front of his church congregation to the 2016 beating death of a fellow church-goer has been sentenced to life in prison.

Police say a man who witnesses said fatally shot his ex-girlfriend in the head in Central Texas was later found in his vehicle with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The FBI has released sketches and other information on a string of unsolved cold-case homicides that investigators say a serial killer admitted to carrying out.

Four men have been arrested and charged with two counts each of second-degree felony aggravated assault in the beating of a gay couple in Austin.

New legislation regarding the congressional budget process could require members of Congress to stay at work in Washington until they pass a budget every year.

Sheriff's officials say they have found five people who were shot to death in a house in Texas.

A renowned Michigan opera singer and his husband have appeared in a Texas court to face charges of sexually assaulting another man in 2010.

Authorities say one person has been critically hurt and two others suffered lesser injuries in a scaffolding and construction elevator accident in a North Texas business district.

A former host with Glenn Beck's online talk show lineup has died after he was struck by a train in North Texas while jogging alongside railroad tracks.

Four people have been found dead in a house under construction in Dallas.