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The crash occurred at 1:45 p.m. on State Highway 176 and Farm to Market 1212 and has left two injured and one dead in Martin County.

Rep. Jay Dean, R-Longview, was appointed as chairman of the House Committee on Insurance. And Rep. Cole Hefner, R-Mount ...

The Sabine County Sheriff's Office announced Sheriff Tom Maddox died this week after battling long-term health issues.

Abbott is in Washington this week to lobby Congress for $11 billion to compensate Texas for money spent on immigration ...

A teen who had been missing since Sunday, Feb. 9, was found safe around 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, by DPS Trooper Levi Wilcox.

Liberty County deputies, alongside multiple agencies, seized a large amount of meth and arrested three men during a traffic ...

After 10 underage victims, four criminal charges, and serving a 7-year prison sentence, Carlos Ayala-Morales was still allowed to walk free without registering as a sex offender.

A woman is fighting for her life after she was ejected from her car and then run over by a Jeep in a violent collision on ...

Abbott is in Washington this week to lobby Congress for $11 billion to compensate Texas for money spent on his Operation Lone ...

An investigation identified “several” people of interest, and two of them were later booked into jail in a neighboring county ...

A routine traffic stop in Houston led to the arrest of three suspects and the recovery of stolen mail, fake IDs, and ...