For nearly two months, Texas child-welfare officials had insisted conditions at a polygamist group's ranch were so abusive that none of its members should be allowed to keep their children.
In the early days of the state's raid on a West Texas polygamist sect's compound, child welfare officials insisted that they were going by the book in removing children from a potentially dangerous living situation.
The continuing national battle for the Democratic presidential nomination is hanging over this week's Texas Democratic Convention like a dark cloud.
Dwayne "Pop" Freeman has begun calling for an "Austin tea party."
The oil field service company owner first suggested overturning the Legislature with revolutionary fervor at a recent meeting of independent business owners. They were discussing the new state franchise tax, which evens the taxpaying field, supporters say.
For nearly 28 years, the Rev. Cindi Love and Sue Jennings have lived like a married couple. They've paid bills together, worshipped together and raised children together. But the Abilene couple never had the option to get married on U.S. soil until California's Supreme Court ruled last month to legalize same-sex marriage.
If you are mean, lie, or cheat, you deserve a spanking. That is exactly what happened to the "Coalition" lobby at the May 21 - 23 meeting of the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE).
Two months after Texas officials raided a ranch and removed 468 children from their homes, a court, at the direction of the Texas Supreme Court, has ended this injustice, ordering that the children be reunited with their parents. Many of the children, whose parents belong to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, had been forced into foster care and scattered across the vast Lone Star State.
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints made the startling announcement Monday that it will no longer allow underage girls to marry adults within their sect.
Even as children continue to stream back home to the Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado, Schleicher County Sheriff David Doran predicted Tuesday that numerous criminal charges will eventually be returned against followers of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS).
A Bible-based school and research institute has asked the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to reverse its decision not to allow the school to offer a master's degree in science education.
They're the abused stepchild of state government, given too little food and too much work and yelled at mercilessly when, in their fatigue and malnourished condition, they make a mistake.
State officials, fearing a violent reaction from members of a West Texas polygamist sect, considered a secret plan to haul hundreds of children and their mothers to Midlothian to be separated, internal e-mails show. But a judge vetoed the plan.
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The decision to remove a child from the custody of his or her parents is one of the most difficult law enforcement, judicial and child welfare officials can make.
Mother-and-child reunions continued around the state Tuesday but most families belonging to a polygamist sect are staying away from the windswept ranch they used to call home - at least temporarily.
A Harris County judge on Wednesday ordered the Texas Republican Party to comply with state election law at its state convention in Houston next week after Republican activists alleged that the party illegally uses procedures to minimize grass-root dissent.
County GOP Hands over Convention MinutesA Corpus Christi woman has won copies of minutes from Republican precinct conventions she says prove delegates at a March 29 county convention were seated improperly.
Three-year-old Anne Jessop sat on a pink-and-purple tricycle while 7-year-old brother Ephraim perched himself on a dolly, their heads together in whispered fun.
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's criticism of the state's new business tax drew a sharp rebuke Wednesday from the office of Gov. Rick Perry. The Dallas Morning News reported that, in a speech to the Texas Association of Business, Hutchison called the tax an abject failure.
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