You may underestimate how frequently you look at your device, and you may be paying a price with more attention and memory lapses. For many of us, checking our phones has probably become an ...

Since 2020, more than 100 companies have relocated to Texas—40 percent of them from California, as reported by KERA News. Ten Fortune 500 companies have moved to Texas in the last six years, eight of ...

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AUSTIN, Texas — THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – To cool the state’s entire prison system, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has said it would cost more than $1 billion. But so far, TDCJ has not asked the ...

A federal case that is set to go to trial on Monday could force Texas to air-condition dozens of its prisons, as attorneys argue the state is exposing inmates, guards and other staff members to ...

A tatted Texas man was sentenced to 40 years behind bars last week for slashing the throat of his elderly lover, who was three times his age, in a heinous murder last year, according to reports.

In the years since disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead from what was ruled a suicide in his prison cell on August 10, 2019, conspiracy theories have abounded about whether the convicted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For 175 years, the oldest prison in Texas was led by men. Now, for the first time, a woman is in charge. The Huntsville Unit, ...

A large explosion at a Valero oil refinery in Port Arthur, near the Texas Gulf coast, shot plumes of smoke into the air and forced some nearby residents to shelter in place on Monday. Port Arthur ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TENNESSEE COLONY, Texas (KETK) – Seven people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in a scheme to bring meth into the ...

Someone used a drone to drop a package containing knives, a cellphone and drugs onto the grounds of an upstate New York prison, the staff says. Now, the state says it's an example why New York's drone ...

A Texas teacher will spend decades in prison after being convicted of child pornography and bestiality. In February, Hillary Danielle Williams was sentenced to 42 years in prison for possession with ...