A radio station manager says the theft of its giant tower has silenced what used to be the voice of a small Alabama town and surrounding county.

A Texas Tribune analysis of hate crime data found that 82% of Texas law enforcement agencies that report to the FBI tracked no hate crimes last year. However, one suburban North Texas police agency is creating a new model of collecting hate crime data.

Livingston and Jasper residents hope a lawsuit will force their municipality-operated utility company to offer lower rates and create more transparency in setting rates. They’re among the 5 million Texans living outside the state’s deregulated market and cannot choose their energy provider.

Jasper’s second Black mayor wants to help residents pay their bills while a younger city council wants to invest in the city’s culture. Residents call their heated arguments at city council meetings “foolishness” and “embarrassing.”

Texas Rural Funders hopes a one-stop resource for grant applications and writers could help small towns win money to fund innovation and capital needs.

The quiet East Texas town of Jasper came together immediately after the racist murder of James Byrd Jr. Now, Texas is leading the nation in incidents of white supremacist propaganda.

Police in Jasper have released additional information about a shooting that occurred after shots were fired at a prom afterparty over the weekend.

A sheriff's office in Texas says nine teenagers were shot at a prom after-party attended by hundreds.

Nine people were hospitalized after a prom after-party turned into a shooting overnight, according to the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office.

Women in Deep East Texas drive over an hour to give birth after the last obstetrics unit in the area closed in 2019. But if closing the unit was hard, reopening it is proving nearly impossible.

Running elections in Texas has never been easy. But since 2020, the scrutiny elections administrators face has grown — even in small Republican-controlled counties that former President Donald Trump carried.

A third person has been arrested in the death of 5-year-old Houston boy Samuel Olson, according to reports.

Authorities say a second person has been charged in connection with the death of a 5-year-old Houston boy whose body was kept hidden in a storage unit before being discovered in an East Texas motel.

Authorities say a 5-year-old Houston boy whose body authorities say was kept hidden in a storage unit before being discovered in an East Texas motel has been officially identified and his cause of death has been ruled a homicide.

Court documents say a 5-year-old Houston boy likely died weeks before he was reported missing and his body was kept hidden in storage unit before authorities discovered it in a motel room more than 100 miles away.

Police in Texas say a suspect has been arrested in the investigation of a boy reported missing last week in Houston.