It's back to the drawing board for investigators looking into a 2018 fire in San Marcos that killed five people after a grand ...

Five people died in the 2018 blaze at the apartment complex in San Marcos. Jacobe Ferguson, 31, was charged with setting the ...

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A judge has recently ruled in the ongoing litigation regarding oppressive heat conditions in Texas prisons. United States District Judge Robert Pitman called the lack of air conditioning in inmate ...

Jon Rosenthal, D-Houston, are identical and would require each cellblock, dormitory and common area in Texas prisons to be equipped with an air conditioning unit. Temperatures would have to be ...

Those findings were referenced in a 91-page ruling issued last week by Austin-based U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman, who opined that the lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons is ...

A years-long fight over the temperature inside Texas prisons has entered a new phase. In a landmark ruling issued on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ruled that keeping inmates in ...

BURNET COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — On Pam Stevenson’s drive home from teaching a bible study class at the Ellen Halbert Unit Women’s Prison, a message she couldn’t ignore hit her as she ...