Texas

A Louisiana mother and her unborn child died after hitting an alligator with her truck north of Corpus Christi, Texas.

Health officials in Houston, Texas, are grappling with a syphilis outbreak among the population.

Army officials are investigating the death of a 23-year-old soldier’s transgender spouse whose body was found in their Killeen, Texas, home.

Former New York Times editor and DEI proponent Kathleen McElroy was appointed to be the head of the journalism program at Texas A&M University, but later had her contract reduced from five years to one year, after her woke history came to light. She has chosen not to take the position at all in a win against DEI insanity. The leader of a conservative alumni group said, “I think identity politics have done a lot of damage to our country, and the manifestation of that on campus, the D.E.I. ideology, has done damage to our culture at A&M.”

Professor Will Moravits  was reportedly fired from St. Philip’s College in San Antonio, Texas, after making a student “uncomfortable” for allowing open debate on topics such as homosexuality and policing. The professor’s lawyer says that he expects the college “to begin acting like a real educational institution that serves the Texas taxpayers rather than some sort of self-appointed cultural centurion that enforces ideological orthodoxy.” The lawyer added that the College’s action again “is a travesty and basically a fraud on the Texas taxpayers, not to mention suppression of his First Amendment rights and a violation of the Community College Districts own academic freedom policy to boot.”

House GOP leaders are rallying behind former Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX) as she makes her congressional comeback bid, with a unified endorsement from all of House GOP leadership on the day she launched her campaign.

Four adults and two teenagers were arrested in Houston, Texas, after following a man home and robbing him in his driveway.

Former President Donald Trump is up 32 points in the Texas Republican primary, a recent CWS Research survey found.

Community members stepped up in a big way to help a bullied boy who was looking for friends in Amarillo, Texas, this week.

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is recruiting former Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX) to run for her old seat in Texas’s 34th congressional district.

A bus carrying migrants from a Texas border city arrived in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday for the second time in less than three weeks.

A Texas man who found a deceased woman in her backyard claims it took several phone calls for Austin police to respond.

Dennis Hegstad, a Tesla owner from Texas, was left stranded when he couldn’t access his Model 3. His electric vehicle had 130 miles of charge available, but was completely locked up, requiring a tow to a service center. He believes the car’s 12-volt battery failed under the relentless Texas summer heat.

UPDATE: According to Houston police, the teen was at home the whole time. While his mother did report him missing on March 7, 2015, he returned home a day later.

A Texas sheriff deputy struck and killed by an alleged drunk driver had his mortgage paid off by a charity dedicated to honoring fallen first responders. Smith County Sheriff’s Deputy Lorenzo Bustos, 29, died on his last training shift, Tyler

Lea Anne Powell has won the title of being a women’s world record holder after catching a massive Largemouth Bass at a Texas lake in February.

Four people were locked inside a Mars simulation on Sunday at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and will remain there for over a year.

Police in Allen, Texas, released body cam footage Wednesday showing an officer shooting and killing the May 6 outlet mall mass shooter.

The City of Fort Worth, Texas, suffered a cyberattack in which internal systems were compromised, and a leftist organization called SiegedSec has reportedly taken credit. The leftist hacker group has previously attacked the government systems of pro-life states, and has now reportedly targeted Fort Worth over strong Texas laws preventing the mutilation of children in the name of “gender-affirming care.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday previewed his plan to secure the U.S. southern border, offering more details on how to address the Biden administration’s ongoing crisis.

A woman in Corpus Christi, Texas, is thankful for a tiny neighborhood hero who helped save her life not long ago.

Officers responding to a burglary call in Amarillo, Texas, arrived at the scene and found the body of a 53-year-old alleged home intruder.

Neighbors in McKinney, Texas, received free lawn care over the weekend from an unlikely but hungry team of workers.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) has been sending border crossers and illegal aliens to other states, and out of the country, after repeatedly blasting Republican governors for enacting similar policies regarding illegal immigration.

WASHINGTON, DC – Texas and Louisiana lack standing to sue the Biden administration’s policy of not enforcing a federal law requiring the arrest of certain criminal aliens, the Supreme Court held on Friday.

Students will pay $5,946 to learn many crucial life skills in the “Queer Art of Drag” class, like how to strike a pose.

Florida officials have come in contact with roughly 10,000 migrants, including an MS-13 gang member on the U.S. terror watch list.

An illegal alien has been indicted for allegedly killing Diane Luckett, a mother of three and grandmother of five, in a fatal crash.

Houston rapper Big Pokey, whose real name was Milton Powell, died on Sunday at the age of 45, just moments after collapsing onstage during a performance.

A six-year-old boy died after being struck by lightning a month ago.

Former championship swimmer Riley Gaines celebrated Republican lawmakers in Texas for banning men from women’s sports.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a new law placing limits on transgender athletes in the Lone Star States colleges.

At least three people are dead and dozens more injured in what is described as a “devastating” tornado in the far northeast Texas Panhandle town of Perryton. Rescue efforts continued through the night after the tornado ripped through the town shortly after 5 p.m. on Thursday.

“Thirty-two percent of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse,” the researchers said in a March 2020 slide presentation posted to Facebook’s internal message board, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Comparisons on Instagram can change how young women view and describe themselves.”

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“We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls,” said one slide from 2019, summarizing research about teen girls who experience the issues.

“Teens blame Instagram for increases in the rate of anxiety and depression,” said another slide. “This reaction was unprompted and consistent across all groups.”

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass issued an angry statement Wednesday evening after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) sent a bus with 42 migrants to her “sanctuary city.”

A woman in Tyler, Texas, who worked for nearly 74 years at the same store is retiring, and her loved ones could not be more proud.