Texas lawmakers proposed a bill to allow private-sector lithium mining companies to work on certain military bases.

The U.S. doesn’t produce the minerals and metals needed for renewable energy, microchips or military technology. Companies are rushing to open new mines in Texas.

Members of a nonprofit organization have arrived in the Texas Hill Country over the past week to help victims of the deadly floods.

A Texas Tribune analysis of hate crime data found that 82% of Texas law enforcement agencies that report to the FBI tracked no hate crimes last year. However, one suburban North Texas police agency is creating a new model of collecting hate crime data.

An 18-year-old man was arrested after he barricaded himself inside a Northeast Texas home where four people were found dead.

A baseball player for a small college in Texas was in stable condition after he was struck by a stray bullet during a game over the weekend.

Whataburger employees in East Texas told police that “something didn’t seem right” when they saw a teen and a 79-year-old man eating together in the restaurant Tuesday morning.

A Texas jury has sentenced a woman to death for killing a pregnant woman to take her unborn daughter.

Prosecutors asked a Texas jury to sentence a woman to death for killing a pregnant woman and stealing her unborn daughter from her womb.

A Texas woman has been convicted of capital murder for killing a pregnant woman to take her unborn baby.

A state police investigator has testified that a woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and removing her unborn child conducted intensive research on how to fake a pregnancy convincingly.

A Texas woman accused of killing a woman to steal her unborn baby to present as her own went on trial for capital murder.

Authorities say an inmate who escaped from a northeast Texas jail was fatally shot by an Arkansas police officer after the inmate tussled with another officer over a gun.

Just after storms moved through Texarkana last week, the skies opened up again and rained fish for a few minutes.

You’ve heard the saying, “It’s raining cats and dogs,” but have you ever heard, “it’s raining fish?” That’s what one East Texas town said after a rare weather phenomenon happened to them last week.

Police say a suspect has been arrested in a shooting that left one person dead and nine more wounded at a Halloween party in eastern Texas.

A Texas man linked to the “boogaloo” movement who livestreamed threats to kill police was sentenced Friday to 50 years in prison after being convicted of attempted murder of a peace officer.

Prosecutors say they won’t seek the death penalty for a man accused of intentionally crashing his truck into a van in northeast Texas, killing two young boys.

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A pregnant woman in East Texas has died after her unborn child was cut from her womb, according to police. The baby did not survive after a female suspect stole the child, police said. The 22-year-old woman was nearly eight months pregnant, according to a report from the Texarkana Gazette. Police on Saturday said a female suspect was taken into custody in Oklahoma. Police said the Texas Rangers are now investigating, and more information will be released as it becomes available.