Robert Roberson was set to be the first person in the U.S. to be executed on a “shaken baby syndrome” diagnosis after getting convicted for killing his 2-year-old daughter. He maintained his innocence and in October 2024, his sentence was put on a temporary pause.

Robert Roberson may have had his execution date postponed, but time is running out for whether he will get to testify.

An exclusive Inside Climate News analysis found that companies have spilled nearly 150 million gallons of toxic, highly saline wastewater in Texas over the last decade.

A man serving a 50-year sentence for the shooting deaths of a couple in 2017 has died in an East Texas prison.

Ricardo Jose Prado Jr., 41, died at around 11:45 p.m. on April 1 at a state penitentiary located in Tennessee Colony, TX. He was serving a sentence of life without parole for the crime.

A failed regular session bill sought to give a financial break to a West Texas nuclear waste disposal company. Now, lawmakers have removed what opponents called a giveaway and are again trying to pass a bill to stop highly radioactive materials from coming to Texas.

Worried about a possible resurgence of COVID-19 infections, doctors Carolyn Salter and her husband, Michael Gorby, have taken it upon themselves to get lagging vaccination rates up in rural East Texas.

Hicks is the GOP chairman for Anderson County in eastern Kansas. His newspaper is based in the Anderson County seat of Garnett, about 65 miles (105 kilometers) southwest of Kansas City and has a circulation of about 2,100, according to the Kansas Press Association. State law allows counties to opt out of her mask mandate, and Anderson County has done so. The state health department has reported only four coronavirus cases for Anderson County, all of them since May 8. State and local officials across the U.S. have faced resistance to mask requirements from Trumps supporters.

The cartoon on the Anderson County Reviews Facebook page depicts Gov. Its caption is, Lockdown Laura says: Put on your mask ... and step onto the cattle car.The newspaper posted the cartoon on Friday, the day that Kellys mask order aimed at stemming the spread of the coronavirus took effect. Finally, he said, putting the Star of David on Kellys mask is anti-Semitic because it implies nefarious Jews are behind her actions. Anderson County, with about 7,900 residents, is part of a conservative swath of eastern Kansas. The state health department has reported only four coronavirus cases for Anderson County, all of them since May 8.