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Another Texas inmate has had his execution delayed over claims the state is violating his religious freedom by not letting his spiritual adviser lay hands on him at the time of his lethal injection.

More than $1.7 million worth of methamphetamine is off the streets after being seized by police earlier this month.

Video from the officer’s body camera show the moment they arrested the suspect.

Police in Mansfield early Sunday safely rescued a 13-year-old girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert out of Brownsville.

A bus carrying patients for treatment of chronic illnesses flipped in northern Mexico near the U.S. border Tuesday, killing 12 people and leaving 10 others injured.

The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a further review by a lower court of a lawsuit brought by a Texas death row inmate who objects to a policy that bars a chaplain from accompanying him into the death chamber.

A burned body has been found in a burned car near Mountain Home and three suspects are in custody after being arrested on first-degree murder warrants, according to Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery.

The Mexican army said Thursday that soldiers patrolling along the Rio Grande river have found an unfinished tunnel that was apparently dug under the river bed in a bid to reach U.S. territory.

A new project will extend the Historic Battlefield Trail from Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park in Brownsville, Texas north to Los Fresnos.

A University of Texas at Austin student from Dallas doesn’t have to worry about paying tuition anymore, after a whirlwind night at a taping of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

An appeals court has granted a stay of execution for a Texas inmate convicted of fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman more than 20 years ago as part of an attempt to steal more than $600,000 she had hidden in her home.

SpaceX has extended its buyout offer deadline to Boca Chica Village homeowners in South Texas and agreed to reappraise the properties after complaints that the original appraisals were too low.

Migrants wanting to request asylum camped out on a U.S.-Mexico border bridge Thursday, leading to a half-day closure of a span linking the Mexican city of Matamoros to Brownsville, Texas. Hundreds of migrants from Central America and elsewhere stretched out on the bridge before dawn, with some lying on mats or their coats. The crowd included children and babies. U.S....

Migrants who want to request asylum have camped out on the international bridge leading into Brownsville, Texas, causing a closure of the span.

Ever been to Port Arthur? Were you miserable? The city surrounded by oil refineries ranked second on a list of the most miserable cities in America, according to a new report.

The operations of the Port Isabel Lighthouse officially changed hands this month with the Texas Historical Commission now taking the reins from the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department.

A dozen leaders of a California-based ministry have been charged with using homeless people as forced labor, holding them in locked group homes and making them panhandle up to nine hours a day, six days a week.

The Trump administration is ready to open a tent court on the border to help handle tens of thousands of cases of asylum seekers forced to wait in Mexico, with hearings held entirely by videoconference. The court, or “soft-sided” facility as U.S. officials call it, is scheduled to begin operations Monday in Laredo, Texas. Another is expected to open soon...

Eight-and-a-half-months pregnant and experiencing contractions, a Salvadoran woman who had crossed the Rio Grande and was apprehended by the Border Patrol was forced to go back to Mexico. Agents took her to the hospital, where doctors gave her medication to stop the contractions. And then, according to the woman and her lawyer, she was almost immediately sent back to Mexico....

At the very eastern end of the U.S.-Mexico border there’s a long strip of sand where the Rio Grande meets the sea. It is called Playa Bagdad — or ‘Bagdad Beach.’