Colleague, Staffer Come To Rescue Of Choking Texas Congressman
Posted: 5:16 PM A colleague and a staffer who’s also a doctor came to the rescue after a Texas congressman choked on a piece of popcorn.
Posted: 5:16 PM A colleague and a staffer who’s also a doctor came to the rescue after a Texas congressman choked on a piece of popcorn.
Posted: 3:50 PM A Texas House panel Tuesday debated proposed new punishments for 17-year-old capital murder defendants.
Posted: 3:46 PM Texas senators have given a preliminary OK to a road-spending plan.
Posted: 3:05 PM A Texas man was jailed Tuesday after a caller threatened to kill the state’s freshman U.S. senator and to blow up the sun if he wasn’t paid millions.
Posted: 12:14 PM The state is offering grants to counties for feral hog control.
Updated: 2:47 PM Members of a Texas House committee say they think information about dangerous chemical sites such as the West fertilizer plant that exploded in April should be posted online.
Updated: 2:17 PM Texas House Democrats were fuming Monday about the governor’s veto of key ethics legislation.
Posted: 11:51 AM Texas Gov. Rick Perry was trolling for jobs Monday in Connecticut.
Posted: 12:02 PM Gov. Rick Perry has vetoed 24 bills and stirred ire when he cut funding for the state’s Public Integrity Unit because the DA who heads it refused to resign after pleading guilty to DWI.
Posted: 11:57 AM A Texas district attorney convicted of driving while intoxicated isn’t tied to a hit-and-run accident earlier on the same night she was arrested, authorities say.
Posted: 11:52 AM Texas lawmakers will hold a second hearing Monday on the handling of hazardous materials in the wake of the deadly West fertilizer plant explosion.
Posted: 4:37 PM Some recipients of jobless benefits in Texas will have to submit to drug testing under a bill that Gov. Rick Perry signed into law Friday.
Posted: 1:29 PM Texas senators Friday passed a bill creating a new punishment for 17-year-old offenders who are convicted of capital murder.
Posted: 3:02 PM Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed a bill Thursday aimed at averting lawsuits for saying “Merry Christmas” in the state’s public schools.
Posted: 2:59 PM Gov. Rick Perry says he doesn’t plan to add any more items to lawmakers’ plates.
Updated: 4:15 PM The Texas Senate Wednesday passed legislature that would allow life sentences with parole for 17-year-old offenders convicted of capital murder.
Posted: 2:01 PM Former President George H.W. Bush turned 89 Wednesday and donned Superman socks to celebrate.
Posted: 1:58 PM Texas lawmakers considered some changes to state’s political districts Wednesday, but rejected all of them.
Posted: 1:55 PM Texas Gov. Rick Perry is poking fun at New York in a $600,000 radio campaign ahead of his East Coast visit.
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Posted: 5:44 PM The Texas PTA Tuesday applauded Gov. Rick Perry for signing a high school curriculum overhaul that reduces the number of standardized tests students must pass to graduate.
Posted: 6:48 PM Gov. Rick Perry added road funding to the special session call Monday with only two weeks left to go.
Posted: 1:23 PM Texas Gov. Rick Perry is adding two East Coast stops on his job-poaching tour.
Posted: 10:13 AM Volunteer firefighters in Texas are puzzled by the Legislature’s decision to divert funds intended for their departments.
Posted: 1:15 PM Gov. Rick Perry signed legislation Friday that ensures that businesses, restaurants and food stores allow service dogs.
Updated: 4:33 PM Texas lawmakers have scheduled redistricting hearings in two cities.
