A former Texas nurse suspected in the killing of dozens of children pleaded guilty Thursday in the 1981 death of an 11-month-old boy, receiving a life sentence that a prosecutor said should ensure she dies in prison.

Genene Jones, 69, was imprisoned in 1984 for killing one child and giving an overdose to another.

Researchers at Tarleton State University’s Southwest Regional Dairy Center in Stephenville are using devices similar to Fitbits to track the health habits of dairy cows.

The researchers are saying that tracking a cow’s eating, sleeping and movement helps them take better care of the animals, according to a press release from the Texas A&M University System.

Severe storms sweeping across southern portions of the U.S. and up into the Midwest were blamed Saturday in the deaths of at least 11 people, including two first responders, as high winds, tornadoes and unrelenting rain battered large swaths of the country. Storm-related fatalities were reported in Texas due to icy weather, in Alabama from a deadly tornado and in…

Texas will no longer accept the resettlement of new refugees, becoming the first state known to do so under a recent Trump administration order, Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday. Abbott’s announcement could have major implications for refugees coming to the United States. Texas has large refugee populations in several of its cities and has long been a leader in...

Crews could start building a private border wall in South Texas within the coming days following a federal judge’s ruling Thursday that lifted a restraining order against the project. U.S. District Judge Randy Crane’s order was the second federal ruling in two days in favor of border barriers. On Wednesday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a...

A Texas man faces murder charges after stuffing his girlfriend’s 10-month-old child into a backpack and leaving her in his car for more than five hours. KCBD’s Katie Main reports.

A Greek court has postponed the retrial of seven suspects on murder charges over the 2017 fatal beating of a Texan tourist on an island resort. It is to allow a lawyer newly hired by the victim’s family to familiarize himself with the case. The court on Wednesday postponed the case until Jan. 13. Six of the men, five Serbian...

Emergency officials say one person was killed and three others hurt in a reported “stabbing incident” in downtown Austin, Texas. Police say a suspect was taken into custody Friday morning. Austin-Travis County EMS said a man in his 20s was pronounced dead and a man in his 50s was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. Two others were being...

A judge is giving a Fort Worth hospital the green light to remove an 11-month-old girl from life support despite her family’s protest. The Thursday morning ruling by the 48th judicial district court says Cook Children’s Medical Center will give the family of Tinslee Lewis up to seven days to make a decision on whether to appeal. Lewis has...

A shooting at a church in Texas and a stabbing at a rabbi’s home during a Hanukkah celebration in New York over the weekend have renewed calls for increased security and the right to be armed in places of worship.

A 12-year-old Texas boy likely saved the lives of his great-grandparents when his older brother started stabbing them in the neck and the head during a car ride, authorities said Monday.

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A livestream of the church service showed the shooting and the commotion that followed in White Settlement, Texas, near Fort Worth on Sunday morning.

Two people were shot and killed and multiple others were wounded when a group filming a music video was “ambushed” near Houston, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said....

After holding a media briefing in which he said two people were killed and four wounded, Gonzalez in a tweet revised the total number of gunshot victims in the Friday night shooting to...

A news camera on the scene of a pile-up caused by dense fog in Texas captured the moment a semi-truck slammed into the other vehicles, sending Texas Department of Public Safety Officers running for their lives.

A 41-year-old Congolese asylum seeker died Wednesday in U.S. government custody shortly after she entered a border station in South Texas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday.

CBP says the woman, who the agency did not identify, had arrived at an official port of entry in Laredo, Texas, early Tuesday afternoon.

A clerical error by her bank made a North Texas woman a millionaire for a day. KTVT-TV reports that when Dallas resident Ruth Balloon checked her bank account earlier this week, it had some extra money in it: an extra $37 million to be exact.

Republican George P. Bush, the only member of the Bush dynasty still in public office, condemned Thursday recurring episodes of what he described as racist or hateful rhetoric within the Texas GOP and ripped what he called false accusations fanned by his Hispanic heritage.

A man police say was fleeing a traffic stop Tuesday night when he struck and killed a Houston-area police sergeant is once again back into custody and is now facing a capital murder charge, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Department. Tavores Dewayne Henderson, the subject of a Blue Alert and a statewide manhunt, was arrested at his home...

A Blue Alert has been issued for a handcuffed man police say broke free from officers during a traffic stop in suburban Houston Tuesday night, got behind the wheel of a car and struck a police sergeant, killing her. Nassau Bay police Sgt. Kaila Sullivan was assisting in a traffic stop Tuesday night at an apartment complex when police discovered…