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The U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirms one of its surveillance blimps broke free on South Padre Island Monday. It was found Tuesday in Hunt County.

The case focuses on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s approval of a project to store spent nuclear fuel at a remote site in southwestern Texas.

It’s a New York and Texas beef … over beef. And at an iconic steakhouse where history is on the menu, NYC is not backing down.

Last-minute problems have delayed the latest launch of SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship.

Rapper G$ Lil Ronnie and his 5-year-old daughter are dead, family members say, after a shooting at a car wash in Forest Hill, Texas, on Monday.

Dallas police confirmed there was no active shooter after an incident in Downtown Dallas near the Omni Hotel and Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Saturday afternoon.

There are a lot of questions about the efficacy of the measles vaccine and whether some should get a booster or be revaccinated. We’ve got answers.

Health officials in Lubbock, Texas, held a press conference on Wednesday following confirmation of the first death related to the current measles outbreak.

The University of North Texas Health Science Center’s failure to obtain permission before using corpses for research may have violated state law, authorities said.

A person who was hospitalized with measles has died in West Texas, marking the first death in an outbreak that began late last month.

The measles outbreak in West Texas has increased to 124 cases, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.

A Texas lawmaker horrified by an NBC News investigation into a medical school that profited from the bodies of the poor and vulnerable moved this week to ban the practice, introducing a bill that would make it illegal in the state to perform medical research on a corpse without explicit consent.

The company says the layoffs are part of its plan to minimize costs and increase efficiencies. 

Officials say a parent tackled a man who opened fire during a band competition at a Houston-area high school as several others then helped disarm and detain him.

At least seven officers were shot while responding to a call at an apartment for a “possible suicide in progress” in San Antonio on Wednesday.

The unidentified suspect shot an officer who first arrived at the scene then proceeded to shoot six more officers more, the San Antonio Police Department said.

In an announcement Monday, the University of North Texas System Board of Regents said it had accepted Sylvia Trent-Adams’ resignation.

The truck driver in a Texas smuggling attempt that ended in the deaths of 53 migrants in a sweltering tractor-trailer without air conditioner has pleaded guilty.

“Drug-addicted rats” are eating narcotics seized and stored by Houston police, prompting a change in how long the department is required to store the evidence, officials said.

Flags have been lowered to half-staff at many federal and public buildings across the country in honor of former President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29.