A federal judge’s ruling against a Houston mother who says she was fired after asking for a place to pump breast milk has highlighted a question left unanswered by higher courts: Is firing a woman because she wants to pump at work sexual discrimination?
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A tip from an 8-year-old boy has helped deputies recover a plane reported stolen from an East Texas airport. The Cessna 182 turned up missing Jan. 28 from a hangar at Athens Municipal Airport.
Last-ditch negotiations to save the April 3 Texas primary appeared dead Tuesday, throwing the state’s messy redistricting battle back to a federal court that must now sort through a widely panned partial deal and pick a new primary date.
Officials at Big Bend National Park in West Texas are looking for a mountain lion that attacked and injured a 6-year-old boy as he walked with three other people.
A woman’s body was found near an outdoor staircase early Monday near a University of Texas-Pan American campus building.
After paying $16 to file a one-page claim to an empty, $340,000 home in an upscale Dallas suburb, Kenneth Robinson moved in furniture, hung a “No Trespassing” sign in the front window and invited television cameras inside for a tour.
A federal judge in Austin said Monday that he couldn’t block a Texas law requiring women to have a sonogram before having an abortion any longer because an appeals court had ordered it to take effect.
Many struggling undergrads have wondered if all the time and money spent on a four-year education is worth it. This might become a more legitimate concern to one who reads new statistics published by the Texas Workforce Commission on Jan. 19.
Transportation officials on Thursday signed off on a faster speed limit of 75 mph for about 1,500 miles of Texas highways.
Convicted murderer Rodrigo Hernandez was executed Thursday night for the abduction, rape and strangulation of a 38-year-old woman in San Antonio 18 years ago.
Texas colleges must send illegal immigrants who pay in-state college tuition rates reminders that they promised to seek legal status in exchange.
The Supreme Court on Friday threw out electoral maps drawn by federal judges in Texas that favored minorities. The decision ultimately could affect control of the U.S. House of Representatives and leaves the fate of Texas’ April primaries unclear.
A little piece of significant history, a little bit at a time. That is the goal of a new exhibit from the Texas Collection on-campus library and archive.
The director of development for George W. Truett Theological Seminary will step down from his position at the end of the month after accepting the top executive post with the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT).
A historic drought has depleted Texas aquifers to lows rarely seen since 1948, and it could take months — or even years — for the groundwater supplies to fully recharge, scientists who study NASA satellite data said Wednesday.
Michael Morton spent nearly a quarter century in prison for his wife’s murder before authorities realized they had the wrong man and set him free. Now police believe they have finally found the real killer.
A Washington-based federal court ruled Tuesday that Texas cannot proceed with elections under new redistricting maps without a trial, saying the state used an inadequate analysis to determine whether new districts discriminate against minorities.
Texas voters approved seven constitutional amendments Tuesday that will allow new cooperation between cities and counties, give the governor more power to issue pardons and borrow more money for student loans.
A Texas man accused of trying to sneak out of the country with restricted U.S. military documents, money and equipment in order to join al-Qaida told a judge Monday that he wanted to leave because he disagrees with American foreign policy and that he never intended to hurt anyone.
College students, veterans’ widows and landowners who conserve water could benefit from 10 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution today if voters approve.
A judge has denied a Texas death row inmate’s request for testing of DNA evidence his attorneys say could prove his innocence less than a week before the man is set to be executed.
On a YouTube clip that has gone viral, brash Texas handgun instructor Crockett Keller defiantly tells Muslims and non-Christian Arabs he won’t teach them how to handle a firearm.
A group of six Baylor students presented original research about Native Americans from a rock shelter at the Texas Archaeological Society’s annual meeting Friday through Sunday in Dallas.
A jury was chosen Monday for the trial of a former bishop of a polygamist group accused of marrying an underage girl to group leader Warren Jeffs.
Hoping to bring conservative values back to his district, 2005 Baylor alumnus Jeff Leach is running for the Texas House of Representatives in District 67, which includes Plano, Allen and Richardson.
An eerie algae bloom that has painted chunks of Texas’ coast a reddish brown and yellow-green in some places has forced state health officials to ban oyster harvesting before the season officially begins.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday he opposes his state allowing specialty license plates featuring the Confederate flag — despite his past defense of the historical value of Confederacy symbols.
Birds in Big Bend National Park may suffer few ill effects from climate change and wildfires in the future — and could even be better off, a Baylor study has found.
Government, non-profit and corporate leaders came together to celebrate the statewide launch of the Texas No Kid Hungry campaign Wednesday at Capitol Hill in Austin.
Baylor’s School of Social Work Texas Hunger Initiative is partnering with Share Our Strength, a national non-profit organization, to fight childhood hunger in Texas.
