New state health exec will oversee programs on ...

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As part of a legislatively ordered restructuring of Texas health agencies, the state health commission has begun advertising for someone to fill a new executive ...

Paxton loses bid to stop federal internet transition

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Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday lost his last-minute bid for a court injunction to prevent the federal government from transferring its oversight of internet ...

Taco trucks become mobile voter registration booths

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Ex-Houston transit officer charged with assault in beating

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A Houston transit police officer who resigned after surveillance video showed him using a baton to hit a man 15 times has been charged with ...

Paxton, Cruz fight internet 'giveaway'

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is jumping into Ted Cruz's fight to stop what the U.S. senator calls President Barack Obama's illegal internet "giveaway." Paxton ...

Texas school districts call for end to special ...

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AUSTIN — The leaders of two of the state's biggest school districts are calling on the Texas Education Agency to stop penalizing districts for giving ...

Outgoing lawmakers: Boost funding to fix Texas school ...

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Dig at Frost Town peeks into Houston's historic ...

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HOUSTON — Volunteers digging recently near Houston's Minute Maid Park found children's marbles, ceramic pieces marked in German, glass-blown bottles and 20th-century rubber boots — ...

EPA plans $97M cleanup of Houston-area toxic waste ...

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DALLAS (AP) — About $97 million will be spent to remove material in waste pits along the San Jacinto River east of Houston that is ...