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An explosion and fire erupted Wednesday at a chemical plant in suburban Houston, injuring at least one person.

Texas’s largest school district will be taken over by the TEA.

The Texas Education Agency is moving forward with a takeover of the state’s largest school district.

The Harris County Sheriff’s Office continued to investigate what led a man to fatally shoot himself just before deputies entered his home and found he had been living for months with a corpse.

A 3-year-old girl found a loaded gun in a Texas home and accidentally shot her sister, killing the 4-year-old on Sunday, police said.

As Houston braces for a decision from the state on whether it will seize control of public schools in Texas’ largest city, Murray thinks the fight isn’t just about failing grades.

Texas has executed an inmate convicted of the drug-related killings of four people more than 30 years ago, including a woman who was 9-months pregnant.

Officials say the boys apparently got caught in a rip current and were pulled underwater.

The bodies of twin 13-year-old brothers who recently moved from Honduras to Houston have been recovered in Galveston.

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said he’d spoken to Texas Education Agency (TEA) Commissioner Mike Morath about rumors of the coming HISD intervention.

Walmart plans to add more than two dozen healthcare centers to some of its stores next year, including 10 in North Texas.

U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX 20th District) says he’s recovering from surgery to remove rare, slow-growing tumors from his gastrointestinal tract.

Toxic wastewater used to extinguish a fire following a train derailment in Ohio is headed to a Houston suburb for disposal.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg spoke on Thursday after the NTSB’s initial findings on the Ohio train derailment were made public.

A 12-year-old girl and her 1-year-old niece are the only survivors after she says a Houston-area man murdered her two sisters and a friend before sexually assaulting her and killing himself.

Authorities say three teenage girls, including one who was pregnant, were fatally shot by a man who also sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl.

A man who had been on Texas’ death row for nearly 30 years after being convicted in the killings of his girlfriend and her two sons has died of natural causes, a spokesperson for the state prison system said Thursday. Henry “Hank” Skinner, 60, died Thursday afternoon at a hospital in Galveston, said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesperson Robert Hurst.

The driver of a pickup truck is dead after crashing into a moving train near Houston Monday morning.

Police in Houston are investigating after a mesh fence was found cut at the Houston Zoo.

The owner of a cleaning company was found dead inside a new home in the city of La Marque, southeast of the Houston area.