The pope's health complications are only adding to rising tensions within the community as clergy and politicians debate ...

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Texas is a state built on independence, industry, and expansion. It was its own republic before joining the U.S. in 1845 and ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

Some of Cupitt’s colleagues thought he had stretched the limits of theological integrity and should have resigned from the priesthood ...

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Ellsworth Cemetery was founded by a small cadre of Black Civil War Veterans in 1876 to provide a burial ground for the ...

Arkansas made 11 of its 13 free throw attempts over the final 62 seconds of Wednesday night’s game at Texas to hold off the Longhorns and win a second consecutive SEC game on the road.

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death Wednesday evening, the second execution in the U.S. this year and the first of ...