A pilot program launched last year allows about a dozen men on death row at Polunsky Unit out of solitary for a few hours each day. Without handcuffs or shackles, they can mingle in a common room.
A University of Texas at Austin/Texas Politics Project survey released Friday found Gov. Greg Abbott is leading Beto O'Rourke by 11 percentage points among likely voters, 54-43. 
The family of Axel Acosta, a 21-year-old who died during the Astroworld Festival in 2021, reached a settlement against Houston rapper Travis Scott, Live Nation and others in connection with the tragedy that resulted in 10 deaths and hundreds of injuries at NRG Park. 
In a new ad released Tuesday morning, Abbott has the mother of a murdered teenager warning voters against supporting O’Rourke because he backs bail reforms that she says are similar to what Harris County had put into place, leading to her son’s killer being released on bond.
The state Legislature passed a law in spring 2021 requiring the Texas Education Agency to give inkless in-home fingerprint and DNA identification cards to each public school system in Texas.
Throughout his campaign for governor, Democrat Beto O'Rourke has emphasized again and again the fallout from last year's winter blackouts, pinning the failure of the grid and its vast financial toll on his opponent, Gov. Greg Abbott.
The El Paso Democrat announced on Tuesday that he raised another $25.2 million since July and now has raised just over $66 million for his campaign against Republican Greg Abbott.
Texas deputies had found her body — little more than a skeleton — in a pasture near Houston. She’d had a pair of red denim shorts, an “Ocean Pacific” T-shirt, a yellow cigarette lighter, two athletic bags.
"The biggest lie Texas politicians have ever told — and both parties have perpetuated it — is the lack of an income tax is an absence of taxation," Tomlinson writes. "That goes for Gov. Greg Abbott and his opponent, Beto O'Rourke, too." houstonchronicle.com/business/colum…
The poll also indicated that Texas voters may consider immigration a more important issue than abortion. About 31 percent of respondents said immigration was their top concern ahead of the midterms, while 22 percent said the same for abortion. 
A state district judge has dismissed the criminal cases against six migrants arrested in Zapata County under Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star initiative.
The staff of the two Republican governors had talked generally about the busing strategy Abbott started last spring, but DeSantis did not have any direct planning with Abbott’s office on Wednesday. 
“Republicans are playing politics with human beings, using them as props,” the president said in a speech at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Gala on Thursday night. “What they're doing is simply wrong. It's un-American. It's reckless.”