Accountability

Lubbock Independent School District officials are investigating, and a teacher is on administrative leave after reports that multiple students suffered burn injuries from being made to perform bear crawls on a hot outdoor track. And Texas Public Radio’s David Martin Davies has more after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals refused to stop the October 17th execution of Texas Death Row inmate Robert Roberson.

“Research has been consistent over time that voter fraud is infinitesimally rare,” one expert tells NPR.

After a few successful script readings last year, Brently Heilbron is presenting a full-scale staging of his satiric musical Young Greg Abbott.

The Department of Public Safety's alert early Friday about a suspect in the Panhandle went statewide — and riled some sleepy Austinites.

As Texas continues its multi- effort to secure the border, state lawmakers were told this week that most of the people charged with smuggling immigrants into the state over a recent 12-month period were U.S. citizens.

One group estimated more than 568,000 cats and dogs entered shelters in 2023. About 82,000 cats and dogs were euthanized.

A new approach to helping people living on the streets find permanent housing called decommissioning is giving new hope to the homeless in Dallas.