SMITH, Hon. CALEB BLOOD, for more than two and a half years Secretary of the Interior in Mr. LINCOLN's first Cabinet, and at the time of his death Judge of United States Circuit Court for Indiana ...

One year after pleading guilty, a Cleburne man was sentenced to 35 years in prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl. Steven Robert Sablan, 63, was sentenced to 420 months in ...

The girl wrote ‘Help Me!’ on a note and showed it to people passing by a Long Beach laundromat. The man was subsequently ...

Texas' highest criminal court agreed and threw out her case in September – potentially setting a precedent that the commission has sole authority to enforce certain laws related to campaign ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton disputed that characterization during a press conference held outside of the U.S. Supreme Court following oral arguments. Paxton said the law was intended to ...

The Supreme Court seemed likely on Wednesday to allow a Texas law requiring users to verify their age to access porn sites, the first major test of statutes in nearly 20 states aimed at protecting ...

The case arrived at the Supreme Court after a federal district court granted a preliminary injunction blocking Texas' age-verification requirement. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ...

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge David Newell will not seek reelection in 2026 after serving 12 years on the state's highest criminal court, he announced Friday. The former prosecutor and ...

HEFLIN — Lane Kilgore was sworn in as the Cleburne County’s new probate judge on Friday, marking the start of his term as the county’s top probate official and chairman of the Cleburne ...

By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington Several members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed deeply skeptical of a challenge to a Texas law that seeks to limit minors’ access ...

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thursday on a Texas law seeking to force porn websites to verify visitors' ages. © Drew Angerer/Getty Images It was unclear ...

The Texas Supreme Court was asked by the U.S. Fifth Circuit to answer a question on the state's usury law. A credit card industry processor sued its lender claiming it should not have been charged ...