Law

President Barack Obama shocked the world today, after announcing that he endorses the right of same-sex couples to marry, claiming his decision as an "evolution" in his views of this subject matter.

Under a new state law that goes into effect Monday May 7th, anyone who applies for a new Texas driver’s license or ID card will need to show proof that they have lived in the state at least 30 days.

British Petroleum and a small army of plaintiffs’ attorneys have presented a New Orleans federal judge with the formal terms of a proposed class-action settlement designed to resolve billions of dollars in economic damage claims spawned by the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

A Lufkin police officer is in a Houston hospital recovering from the major complications that developed after he had surgery to correct an irregular heartbeat.

In just one more sign that today's prisons are not your grandfather's prisons where inmates only made license plates, Texas prisons have been turned into factories where inmates get training for all kinds of jobs on the outside, including high-tech IT jobs.

Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas have filed a federal lawsuit to block the state of Texas from excluding their health centers from the Medicaid Women's Health Program.

Lufkin area officials and others say they are girding their loins for a fight to keep the government from closing the Lufkin Federal Courthouse.

Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson is calling on voters to replace the five members of the Texas Supreme Court who issued an opinion he says weakens the Texas Open Beaches Act.