The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked certain restrictions on abortion contained in a Texas state law that abortion rights groups said would have forced all but a handful of clinics to shut down in the state of 26 million people.
Medical experts need to rethink how highly infectious diseases are handled in the United States, a U.S. health official said on Monday, after a Dallas nurse contracted Ebola despite wearing protective gear while caring for a dying Liberian patient.
A federal judge on Thursday struck down a Texas law requiring voters to show identification at polls, saying it placed an unconstitutional burden on voters and discriminated against minorities.
A federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that Texas could begin enforcing restrictions on abortion clinics that critics of the new rules say will force all but seven of the facilities in the state to shut down.
A U.S. judge heard closing arguments on Monday in a lawsuit challenging a state law requiring Texas voters to show identification at the polls, which plaintiffs argue is an attempt to suppress minority turnout.
A murderer escaped from a state prison in Amarillo, Texas, early on Monday, scaling a fence and fleeing as a guard fired six shots at him, officials said.
More than 700 newborns and 40 employees of a Texas hospital may have been exposed to a worker who had an active case of the sometimes-deadly tuberculosis, health officials said on Friday.
With binoculars in hand, an assault rifle slung over his chest and a Glock pistol on his hip, a man named Will scans the banks of the Rio Grande looking for anyone trying to cross from Mexico into Texas.
Nebraska's Supreme Court heard arguments on Friday about whether Governor Dave Heineman acted properly when he blessed a route for the Keystone XL oil pipeline, and the court's decision could weigh on the controversial project.
Iraq has refiled in U.S. court to gain control of $100 million of Kurdish crude oil on a tanker near Texas, days after the court ruled it lacked jurisdiction to seize the cargo but said it could hear arguments over who is the oil's rightful owner.
A U.S. court in Texas heard arguments on Tuesday in a case over a law requiring voters to present photo identification, a move the state's Republican leaders say will prevent fraud while plaintiffs call it an attempt at suppressing minority turnout.
Lake Forest, Illinois-based pharmaceutical firm Hospira Inc claimed in a statement that the company will not be able to guarantee that a US prison will not be able to obtain its drugs to be used for capital punishment despite the fact that it is objecting to its use, a report by The Associated Press said.
At least 14 people were hurt when a suspect went on a massive stabbing spree at the suburban Houston Lone Star College. The Harris County Sheriff's department confirmed at least 14 people were wounded, and four were taken by medical helicopter in critical condition. All wounds were consistent with stabbing.
The authorities in Texas have launched a massive manhunt, using helicopters and dogs in hopes of finding two inmates, who escaped from jail Tuesday morning. Brian Allen Tucker and John Martin King, who escaped from Hopkins County Jail in Sulphur Springs, Texas, at around 8:30 a.m.
A former Colorado inmate, Evan Ebel, who was a white supremacist gang member is now the focus of the investigation into who killed the state's prison chief Tom Clements.
Andre Murphy, a former Texas cop shot and murdered his his ex-wife Catina Lareese Murphy in her Desota home on Wednesday before turning the gun on himself in an apparent murder-suicide,
Texas carried its first execution of 2013 on Thursday in Huntsville, putting Carl Henry Blue to death for setting his then-girlfriend on fire almost 20 years ago. He died by lethal injection. In Georgia, Andrew Allen Cook was executed, convicted of fatally shooting two university students in 1995.
Two Texas firefighters were killed, and two other were seriously wounded, while trying to douse a heavy fire that that engulfed a Knights of Columbus lodge near College Station at about midnight, early Saturday morning.
