Texas Governor Greg Abbott is also calling on every Texan and candidate for public office​ to sign a pledge​ against defunding the state's police departments.

Theodore Robert Wright III carried out one of the boldest insurance fraud schemes Texas has ever seen. That was only the half of it.

A Texas man accused of killing three of his neighbours was later found hiding in woods with a swastika drawn on his forehead, authorities said. Michael Wettstein, 60, has been charged with capital murder after allegedly carrying out a total of five shootings in Liberty County on Monday.

Flaring, or burning, waste gas from energy production has sharply increased over the past decade. It wastes usable fuel, pollutes the air, and helps drive climate change.

The report says the state will be facing hotter and drier conditions for decades to come, especially in West Texas.

MASK UP, TEXAS! The order applies to all counties in the state with more than 20 confirmed COVID-19 cases.

SpaceX is looking to add an offshore rocket launch facility to the infrastructure it’s building in south Texas, according to SpaceX job postings.

“Sorry for the inconveniences please bear with us thru the ridiculous fearful times,” reads the sign on the front of the Liberty Tree Tavern in Texas.

A North Texas Holocaust survivor is celebrating reaching the century mark. "I was born in 1920, now it's 2020," Heinz Wallach told CBS Dallas. His daughter, Tamar Leventhal, organized a parade for her father's birthday with the help of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum. "I've been emotional the last two weeks putting it all together and realizing how many people love my father," said Leventhal.

Officials say they will not bow to any blackmail or ransom demands. According to a statement issued on Monday by the Office of Court Administration (OCA), later posted on Twitter, the attack took place overnight last Thursday and was discovered on Friday morning.

Texans are about to pay the price for living in the beef state.

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“MAGA”: Karen Kolb Sehlke, a Trump-loving woman from Texas is dead from COVID-19 after claiming the virus was a “media driven” hoax. In a sad, cautionary tale of willful ignorance and hubris, Karen Kolb Sehlke is dead from COVID-19 after claiming the virus was a “media driven” hoax “controlled by the radical people in powerful places.”

Some Republicans say it’s God’s punishment for a sinful society. Others say it’s an anti-Trump hoax. But here’s a take you’ve probably never heard before: COVID-19 saves lives. That’s the claim made by Kathaleen Wall, a Texas Republican running for Congress in 2020, in a particularly ill-advised Facebook post thanking Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton for declaring abortions non-essential medical care, effectively shutting down abortion clinics across the entire state.

In Texas alone you'd have to kill almost two million pigs per year to contain “the worst invasive species we’ll ever see.”

For a small town in Texas, the three-decade presence of the world’s largest retailer was a point of civic pride. Then, 18 months ago, all that changed.

The Somerset Independent School District in Texas has removed a Creationist display from an elementary school after prodding from the American Humanist Association. The issue revolved around a bulletin board at Somerset Early Childhood Elementary school that featured the line “In the beginning God created…” over an image of the planet.

Apple today announced the start of construction on its new campus in Austin, Texas, as part of its broad expansion in the city. At a production facility just a short distance away, Apple is preparing to ship the all-new Mac Pro to customers starting in December.

A sneaky feline from Texas was put in solitary confinement because he kept freeing his cat friends from the shelter.

Elon Musk spoke about his vision of a brighter future for humanity on Saturday evening in South Texas. Musk acknowledged that there are a lot of problems here on Earth, and it is important for those to get fixed. But it is also important to give people hope for the future and a sense of optimism. He believes the exploration of space, and human expansion into the Solar System, provides this kind of a hopeful vision.