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Attorney General Greg Abbott needs your help locating Child Support Evader Tomas Roman, one of the Most Wanted Child Support Evaders in Texas.

Texans, along with their fellow Americans, will celebrate the Fourth of July with family reunions, fireworks, barbecues, rodeos, baseball games, and dozens of other activities.

Michael Barnes is the Austin American-Statesman's social columnist. He lives in South Austin with his partner, Kip, two dogs and two cats.

Every two years, the Legislature meets to decide how to spend your money. Its major decisions are tracked daily by the news media and ultimately documented in the state budget, a cinder-block-size document.

By ANNA M. TINSLEY A slew of animal-related bills, ranging from cracking down on puppy mills and cockfighting to letting Texans hunt feral hogs from helicopters, are making their way to state lawmakers.Animal advocates say they hope they are not barking up the wrong tree.'It's a challenge working and trying to promote legislation to protect ...

Appellant Williamson County brings this interlocutory appeal from the trial court's denial of its plea to the jurisdiction in a suit for property damages resulting from a collision between appellee Dan Voss's vehicle and a tractor owned and operated by the County.

Attorney General Greg Abbott issued an opinion today telling judges that it's fine to require ankle monitoring for truant students.

Willie Nelson, country singer-songwriter, long-haired hippie and philanthropist, has had a prolific music career.

MENLOW The biggest piece discovered from the Feb. 15 meteor that broke apart near West now sits in a meteorite museum in Kansas, its owner happy to have acquired the space rock as well as the trust of the Hill County couple who found it and sold it to him.

The Texas Attorney General's office said Friday it ended a probe into a Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas' physician rating program and reached an agreement with the insurer to stop ranking physicians using claims data.

Leonard Davis of Orange was presented the Governor's 2009 Criminal Justice Volunteer Service Award today in recognition of the extensive time he has spent ministering to inmates incarcerated within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Ray Carroll, a Liberty Tax Service franchisee, says he offers refund-anticipation loans but doesn't encourage them.

The new Hard Rock Cafe Dallas, which will be located at 2211 North Houston Street, anchors the Southern end of the Victory Park urban development center.

The principle that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott should argue before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of 24 million Texans is that they have the right to maintain their environment far into the future.

A Bushland Middle School eighth-grader is just one of many teens across the country in hot water after using a cell phone to send illicit photos.

Texas Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, Texas Rep. Lamar Smith and Cathy Crabtree, Executive Director of the Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas, at Thursday's news conference U.S. ...

Power is out in parts of Waco, including near downtown and at the Tribune-Herald. We also have reports of strong winds, rain and hail around Central Texas.

Preliminary plans to extend utilities to Hillsboro's new business park were approved at a Monday, January 26, meeting of the Economic Development Corporation of Hillsboro.

A Main Street meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday, February 4, in West. Guest speaker at 6 p.m. at Czech Inn will be Debra Farst.

The annual financial report for Hill College was presented to the Board of Regents at a Wednesday, January 21, meeting.