The Latest Breaking News from Texas

FORT WORTH, Texas — He’s 29 years old, has his degree, and still plays college football.

States “have a strong interest” in protecting parent rights, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argued in a brief filed last month in support of Florida’s controversial “Don’t Say Gay” law.

WASHINGTON — House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of California told reporters Friday that he has the votes to be elected speaker, promising an end to a historic stalemate that has paralyzed Congress all week.

FORT WORTH, Texas — He’s no longer the head coach, and he’s employed by another university, but Gary Patterson should be in Los Angeles when TCU plays for the national championship.

HARTFORD, Conn. — In a sharply critical decision, a Superior Court judge has suspended Infowars broadcaster Alex Jones’ lawyer Norm Pattis from practicing law for six months for the “inexcusable” disclosure of thousands of protected medical and psychiatric records obtained from relatives of Sandy Hook shooting victims.

FORT WORTH, Texas — The defense attorneys for former Fort Worth police Officer Aaron Dean have been approved to investigate the jury that in December found him guilty of manslaughter in the death of Atatiana Jefferson.

Naturally, a few of the state’s 25 GOP representatives are in the eye of the storm during the ongoing fight over Speaker of the House.

The move to take news reporters off the Senate floor was implemented in 2021 as a COVID-19 precaution, but an official said Friday the measure would continue in the upcoming session.

Defendants say this practice violates the state’s own laws. The attorney general is pushing onward anyway.