America's oldest living World War II veteran is getting a free home makeover. Richard Overton, 111, enjoys spending his days smoking a cigar on his front porch. He moved to east Austin after serving in WWII and has lived at his home since 1948. "That's what I built it for - to sit on it," he said. Not much has changed at his home for nearly 70 years, and it is in desperate need of a makeover. That's where Meals for Wheels comes in.

A former Texas City police officer is accused of taking money from Jim Mabe while he was suffering from a heart attack in his car. Former officer Linnard Crouch, Jr. resigned from the force earlier this year. However, no criminal charges have yet been filed. Frustrated, the Mabe's family is suing the city and the officer. "There's more than enough anger to go around, to be honest with you," said son Michael Mabe. "I'm disappointed in a lot of people."

The Trump administration says Texas has scrubbed its voter ID law of any potential discrimination and wants a judge who once compared the measure to a “poll tax” on minorities and the poor to resist further action. That stance from the U.S. Justice Department, filed in court Wednesday, continues a reversal from Washington over what critics call one of the most restrictive voter ID laws in the nation. Under former President Barack Obama, the federal government joined minority rights groups in suing Texas over measure passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature in 2011.

A Texas brigade’s grand journey to the battlefields of Pennsylvania.

With right-wing zealots taking over the legislature even as the state’s demographics shift leftward, Texas has become the nation’s bellwether. By Lawrence Wright.

About exactly a year ago we brought you the story of Shawn Sheehan, Oklahoma's 2016 Teacher of the Year. At the time, he and about 40 other educators were running for office in the state, wanting to make a change because, as Sheehan puts it, lawmakers weren't prioritizing education. Funding for schools in the state has been cut tremendously over the past decade and teachers in Oklahoma are some of the lowest paid in the country.

Pronghorn were almost perfectly fitted to the West Texas landscape. And then people started building fences. By Sterry Butcher.

In a windsurfers’ paradise, turbines capture gusts that pick up at exactly the right time - or the wrong time, if you're trying to sell natural gas.

A former Texas nurse serving a 99-year sentence for killing a child and suspected in the poisoning deaths of dozens more has been indicted on a new charge of murdering a toddler 35 years ago.

The 1992 prosecution of Fran and Dan Keller came amid the mass hysteria known as the Satanic Panic. The couple was formally exonerated Tuesday in Austin.

A 10-year-old boy from Texas has invented a gadget that could save the lives of young children accidentally left in hot cars. Over the last two decades, at least 712 children left in vehicles have died of heatstroke in the US, according to a meteorologist who began tracking the preventable deaths in 1998.

Texas craft breweries are calling House Bill 3287, which just became law after sailing through the Legislature, a “disincentive for growth.” The bill and its impact are complicated, but it all boils down to just how successful breweries can become. “There’s no other industry in the United States and in Texas where a law like this is on the books,” says Justin Engle, owner of two-year-old Town in City Brewing.

Child welfare providers can use their "sincerely held religious beliefs" to decide what homes and services foster and adoptive children should receive.

Everyone knows that the US lags far behind most other countries in terms of rail travel offerings, and for many decades, the answer to increased travel demand has been to widen highways or increase flight frequencies. However, a privately funded rail company now aims to grab a piece of the pie when it comes to intra-Texas travel, which could affect the three US airlines that have a huge presence in the state.

How would the French cartoonists have done if they’d been armed with rifles instead of pens?  By Dan Soloman. (Jan. 15, 2015)

The rally began, as so many armed conflicts do, with Facebook posts. By Kelly Weill.

By the time the final day of Texas’ legislative term had ended, Immigration and Customs Enforcement had been called and politicians on both sides of the aisle had accused each other of making threats. By Colin Dwyer.

Compare them to Oregon’s, which make voting incredibly easy. By Ari Berman.

Senate Bill 1913, by state Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, would allow courts to ask defendants if they are too poor to pay for traffic tickets, fines for other low-level and fine-only offenses or court costs. Legislation that would make it easier for poor people to satisfy traffic tickets with alternatives to payment cleared the Texas House on Tuesday on a vote of 75-70. The bill needs to be approved by the Senate again before moving to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk.