More than 50 Democrats left the state on Aug. 4 in a quorum-breaking move to stop congressional redistricting by stalling ...

Local records released this week — after a yearslong lawsuit —affirm previous reporting about law enforcement’s flawed ...

Weeks after state lawmakers paved the way during its last regular session, the Texas Department of Public Safety has ...

Texas House Speaker Duston Burrows revealed Monday that Republicans had tasked DPS to create a tip line— (866) 786-5972, ...

With the Democratic quorum break entering its second week, House Speaker Dustin Burrows said Monday that troopers from the ...

Democratic lawmakers in Texas once again thwarted the Republican redistricting effort in the state when the Texas House of ...

DPS told NewsWest 9 they see an average of six to eight fatal crashes a month in the Permian Basin. The U.S. Alcohol Industry ...

The Texas Department of Public Safety said a routine traffic stop earlier this week turned into a major drug bust after a ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) opened an investigation into the Leander ISD school bus crash that happened ...

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riedrich Miescher discovered the molecule for DNA—or deoxyribonucleic acid—in 1869. Nearly 100 years later, in 1953, a group of scientists discovered DNA's double helix structure, which would confirm ...

Dallas police arrested Martin Deanda, one of Texas' 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders, following a surveillance operation.