The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings for parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia, hours after a harsh storm hit a remote area of central Kentucky, killing one person and injuring seven others.

There are at least 75,710 sex offenders living in the Lone Star State. There are several ways you can check if someone is a sexual offender or if one lives in your neighborhood.

The Court of Criminal Appeals will rehear a case it threw out last year. Three of the judges became targets of Attorney General Ken Paxton over another ruling and lost reelection.

Although we started the summer very wet, it’s now been weeks since many have seen any significant rainfall

It is unclear what caused the helicopter to have to make an emergency landing but was taking a burn patient to the Medical Center.

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The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Josh Duggar, a former reality television star convicted of downloading child sexual abuse images.

Tyson Foods has suspended a great-grandson of the company’s founder after his arrest on charges of driving while intoxicated.

Officials say a tractor-trailer hauling about 15 million bees to be used to pollinate blueberry fields crashed and overturned on Interstate 95 in Maine.

Authorities in Washington County are searching for a burglary suspect who they say wounded a homeowner during a gunfight Thursday morning.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug.

The Texas DPS - Southeast Texas region confirmed on a social media post the victim killed was Bobby Huff, 78. He was one of six hospitalized, they said, but the only one who succumbed to his injuries.

New York will evaluate its troubled recreational marijuana licensing program as lawsuits and bureaucratic stumbles have severely hampered the legal market and black-market sellers have flourished.

A family with an audacious plan to build the world’s tallest flagpole as a centerpiece for a billion-dollar project honoring veterans is abandoning the idea.

A man has been convicted of second-degree murder for fatally shooting a young woman after the SUV she was riding in mistakenly drove into his rural driveway in upstate New York.

Watching for heavy rain with a flood threat next week

An Iowa man is under arrest in the death of a Catholic priest who was stabbed in the rectory of his a small Nebraska church.

New York cannabis regulators have approved a deal to settle lawsuits that have blocked recreational marijuana shops from opening.

Authorities say a man suspected of killing a Maryland judge last week has been found dead in a heavily wooded area about a mile from where authorities had earlier spotted the his abandoned SUV.

When it emerged this week that U.S. health regulators are suggesting that the federal government loosen restrictions on marijuana, the news lit up the world of weed.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has delivered a recommendation to the Drug Enforcement Administration on marijuana policy, and Senate leaders are hailing it as a first step toward easing federal restrictions on the drug.

When Kaylin Gillis and her friends took a wrong turn into an upstate New York driveway last weekend, they wound up on the property of a man bitter about people driving onto his land by mistake.

A federal appeals court panel is considering whether to reverse the child pornography conviction of former reality TV star Josh Duggar.

A pipeline operator has put a damaged section in Kansas back into service, a little more than three weeks after a spill dumped 14,000 barrels of crude oil into a creek.

The operator of a pipeline with a large onshore crude oil spill has reopened all of it except for the stretch in Kansas and northern Oklahoma that includes the site of the rupture.

The company operating a pipeline that leaked about 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of crude oil into a northeastern Kansas creek is recovering at least a small part of it.

Federal data shows a spill from the Keystone pipeline this week dumped enough oil to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool into a northeastern Kansas creek.

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The Houston SPCA rescued 26 animals from a property in Washington County on Wednesday, according to officials.

A woman who said she was left to give birth to her baby alone on the dirty floor of her jail cell in Maryland last year is suing, alleging that jail nurses ignored her screams and pleas for help for six hours.

A top executive at plant-based food company Beyond Meat has been charged with felony battery after a fight outside a college football game in which he was accused of biting a man’s nose.

A West Virginia man has been charged with killing three co-workers at a western Maryland machine shop as well as attempted murder and other charges.

A pastoral home on the market for $4.2 million in Chappell Hill, Texas, offers an escape from the mind-numbing hubbub of city living .

A federal jury in Arkansas has convicted former reality TV star Josh Duggar of downloading and possessing child pornography.

A federal jury in Arkansas has begun deliberations in the trial of former reality TV star Josh Duggar, who is accused of receiving and possessing child pornography.

The defense has rested in the Arkansas federal trial of former reality TV star Josh Duggar after a prosecutor sharply questioned a computer expert during cross-examination.

Computer forensics experts have testified that a computer used by Josh Duggar at work contained child pornography behind a partition that allowed the user to circumvent an application that monitors internet use.

A federal judge says that jurors in Josh Duggar's child pornography trial can hear evidence that the former reality TV star molested four girls nearly 20 years ago.

Jury selection is set to begin in former reality TV star Josh Duggar's trial over federal child pornography charges.

A federal judge says no phones, laptops or recording devices will be allowed at next week’s child pornography trial of former reality TV star Josh Duggar.

A federal judge has denied motions to suppress video evidence found on electronic devices seized from former reality TV star Josh Duggar, who is facing child pornography charges.

A federal judge in Arkansas has denied motions seeking to dismiss child pornography charges against former reality TV star Josh Duggar.

Washington County deputies recovered 16 emaciated dogs from a property in Washington County near Chapel Hill.

Attorneys for former reality TV star Josh Duggar have filed motions seeking to dismiss child pornography charges against him.

Former reality TV star Josh Duggar's trial on child pornography charges has been moved to November.

Former reality TV star Josh Duggar has been released from an Arkansas jail as he awaits trial on federal charges that he possessed and downloaded child pornography.

Former reality TV star Josh Duggar has been charged with receiving and possessing child pornography.

Former reality TV star Josh Duggar was jailed in northwest Arkansas on Thursday after his arrest by federal authorities.

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Texas – Officials at the Houston SPCA said they removed 17 emaciated horses from a property in Washington County on Wednesday after discovering multiple carcasses and scores of bones, including a skull of what appeared to be a young horse. The owner’s family members reached out to the Houston SPCA for assistance after they reported that the animals were not being taken care of properly, officials said. “It is critical that owners reach out when they need lifesaving assistance with their animals, and not wait until it’s too late,” said Adam Reynolds, chief animal cruelty investigator, in a written statement. “It became abundantly clear there was suffering and neglect for a significant amount of time once we discovered all of the bones.”The horses are now receiving veterinary care and proper nutrition, and will also be rehabilitated by a Houston SPCA team.

A special vaccine pre-registration for residents 75 and older in Austin, Burleson, Fayette, Grimes, Waller, and Washington counties is now closed. The goal was to set as many appointments for Tuesday, Feb. 9, as possible. Those not scheduled for Tuesday will remain on the registration list for the next allotment of vaccines. There will be three attempts to reach each registration. Once submitted, those who pre-registered will be contacted by an agent, in the order the form was received, to complete your registration and set an appointment time as vaccines become available.

BRENHAM, Texas – Washington County officials said they plan to start vaccinating people against the coronavirus this week. The state recently designated Washington County EMS as a vaccine hub. Kevin Deramus, director of Washington County EMS, said the agency anticipates receiving 2,000 doses this week. He said officials have been preparing for the vaccine’s arrival, testing and retesting things like call center capacity and the administration process. He said he believes all 2,000 shots will be administered within four days at a drive-thru site set up at the Washington County Fairgrounds.

BRENHAM, Texas – A nursing and rehabilitation facility in Washington County has seen dozens of cases of coronavirus. As of Monday, 102 residents and staff members at Brenham Nursing and Rehabilitation Center tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers posted on a county website. “The nursing home in town got hit really hard,” Dr. William Robert Loesch, the local health authority, said in a video update dated April 29. Karan Janes said her mother, Margie McCracken, 90, was a resident who died several days after learning she tested positive. We have implemented many protocols and procedures to reduce the risk to patients and staff at all of our facilities.

HOUSTON – A year-round camp in Washington County is changing the way people with special needs experience camp. Camp For All is a 206-acre campus in Burton that specializes in activities for disabled children and adults without any barriers, said President and CEO Pat Sorrells. Sorrells said the camp splits the $1,000 per person cost in half with its 65 community partners. “Campers come here and discover what they can do as opposed to out in the real world what they can’t do. For more information on Camp For All on how to sign up or how to donate, click here.