Weston Brown thought he had fully come to terms with his mother’s anti-LGBTQ beliefs. Then he saw the video of her speaking at a school board meeting. “I couldn’t stay quiet about that.”

A teacher at a North Texas middle school resigned this week after she covered a student’s hands in sanitizer and lit them on fire, according to police and media reports.

Hood County’s refusal to remove two books from the children’s section of the library sparked a yearslong political battle. Now school board races have taken on a deeply partisan tone, and elections serve as a purity test for far-right politics.

Police say a mother and her 1-year-old were shot in a Texas Walmart parking lot after her 2-year-old took a handgun and fired it accidentally.

A North Texas mayor has submitted his resignation following his third driving while intoxicated arrest.

MADISONVILLE, Ky. A coroner has identified the body of a Texas woman whose body was found floating in a container in Kentucky Lake, state police said. The body of Traci L. Jones, 41, of Granbury, Texas, was found Saturday near Colson Hollow in western Kentucky, state Trooper Adam Jones said in a news release. A medical examiner identified her following an autopsy Sunday in Madisonville, the statement said. The incident remains under investigation. Read alsoSuspect who fatally shot man outside San Antonio bar returned to clean crime scene, police sayPolice: Overnight shooting at North Side home may be drug-relatedSan Antonio law enforcement called to several shootings across Bexar County on Fathers Day