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During the second day of the NFL Draft on Friday, April 25, the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) held ...

Houston Mayor John Whitmire's inaccurate claims underscore the need for the Legislature to finally give judges more freedom ...

Texas House Democrats are furious they lost the long and bitter war over school choice, and it now appears they intend to ...

Texas House Democrats are furious they lost the long and bitter war over school choice, and it now appears they intend to ...

Somehow, no order was issued for a detention center in Bluebonnet, Texas, a small town 24 miles north of Abilene, leaving the ...

Partisan rancor in the Texas House of Representatives threatened to boil over on Friday when a group of hardline Republicans ...

In a brief heated exchange, Texas House Democratic Caucus Chairman Gene Wu, D-Houston, admitted he asked the bill’s author ...

Members of the House have to be 25 years old, (Article 1, Section 2, Clause 2 of the Constitution). Members of the Senate have to be 30 years old (Article 1, Section 3, Clause 3). And presidents have ...

It’s been nearly two years since the Texas House tried to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton, but the fallout is far from ...

The attorney general’s office would gain authority to prosecute election offenses and make expedited requests to use spy ...