The Liberty County Jail is located next to the old sheriff's office building on Beaumont Ave., Liberty (file photo) Liberty County commissioners took another step Wednesday, May 6, toward addressing ...

The Brief, our daily newsletter, keeps you ahead of the May 26 election. Never miss a story with The Brief, our free newsletter. Our roundup of essential coverage on the 2026 Texas elections.

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Billions of dollars in unclaimed property have been paid back to Texans, and billions more are still waiting to be claimed. Texas has returned more than $5 billion in unclaimed property to its ...

Absent last-minute intervention by the U.S. Supreme Court, Texas death row inmate James Broadnax is scheduled to be executed Thursday for the murder of two music producers his co-defendant confessed ...

The expected vote is the total number of votes that are expected in a given race once all votes are counted. This number is an estimate and is based on several different factors, including information ...

Two days before torrential rains turned the Guadalupe River into a raging flood, a veteran official with the Federal Emergency Management Agency told The Washington Post that one of the main concerns ...

Texas is set to execute a death row inmate who fatally stabbed his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in a fit of rage before he turned the knife on her 12-year-old son, who miraculously survived the ...

Scammers are targeting Jail inmates’ families and others with calls demanding bond or fine payments by phone, cash cards or ...

After a lengthy appeal process, Texas death row inmate James Broadnax’s case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court amid concerns that he did not receive a fair trial because he is a Black man ...