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In 2023, the Corpus Christi Police Department (CCPD), with two detectives on its cold case squad, began reviewing 100 ...

The latest version of the bill includes a previously nixed provision to allow Texans to donate crypto to the fund.

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Local activists warn that while residents must ration, unimpeded industrial expansion is imperiling the region’s future.

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Due process hasn’t been protected. The process that is set in place in this country that is the basis and foundation of our ...

All of the Texas Observer’s articles are available for free syndication for news sources under the following conditions: Matthew Johnson was convicted of the 2012 murder of Nancy Harris in Dallas ...

A version of this story ran in the March / April 2024 issue. I was born and raised in Mexico and lived at the Texas-Mexico border for eight years. As a professor at the University of Texas at ...

A version of this story ran in the May / June 2025 issue. The five members of the Navarro County Commissioners Court had rarely seen such a large audience for their Tuesday meeting as they saw in ...