One juror recently stated, “It seemed to be an open and shut case.” During the punishment phase, where jurors in capital ...
Legislators are (sort of) beginning to grapple with the grim costs that come with the state’s data center boom.
The Cuban government has been blaming the United States for its problems since 1959—sometimes rightly, sometimes not. At this point, my only position comes from seeing a grandmother's coffee ...
We have an in everywhere. It's not hard to talk to other people that do the same thing that you do on a daily basis, and ...
The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center.
The citizen-journalist and social media provocateur's case against local officials was thrown out in a decision that ...
A rogue surgeon’s long Texas career left behind damaged and dead people—and a cautionary tale of how far a wealthy physician can go before anyone stops him. Brenda Phillips hangs onto a Houston summer ...
Houston ISD says its state-appointed superintendent has ended a paid agreement with Third Future Schools, after the Observer ...
A version of this story ran in the October 2012 issue. It’s hard to overstate the power of money in Texas politics. If you’re wealthy, the state offers numerous ways to buy influence and implement ...