Republican lawmakers revive effort to give attorney general more power to prosecute election crimes

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San Antonio's Revolutionary Wings will permanently close around the end of March

After issuing a public plea for support in November, San Antonio's Revolutionary Wings is permanently shutting down. “With a heavy heart we regret to inform everyone that we will be closing our doors next Saturday the 29th,” the wing bar's chef and co-owner, Joshua Paprocki, said in a Friday Instagr

Texas prison staff faked records about heat faced by inmates, guards, investigation shows

Employees from at least one Texas prison falsified temperature logs that officials are required to use to decide when extreme heat poses risks to inmates and guards, according to Austin public radio station KUT. KUT's report is based on an internal state investigation prompted by a federal that argu

Texas is poised to make measles a nationwide epidemic, public health experts say

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. With its measles outbreak spreading to two additional states, Texas is on track to becoming the cause of a national epidemic if it doesn’t start vaccinating more people, accor