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The U.S. government will expand its tent shelter for immigrant minors crossing the southwest border to 3,800 beds and keep it open through the end of this year, an agency spokesman said Tuesday.

At least one gunman opened fire at a Houston-area high school Friday, killing eight to 10 people, most of them students, authorities said, in the nation's deadliest such attack since the massacre in Florida that gave rise to a campaign by teens for gun control.

Houston-area media citing unnamed law enforcement officials are reporting that there are fatalities following a shooting at a local high school Friday morning.

A Texas state trooper is dead after he was shot during a Thanksgiving traffic stop in East Texas.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is suggesting there may have been a connection between the gunman who shot and killed 26 people in a South Texas community and the Baptist church where the slayings happened.

A gunman opened fire inside a Texas church on Sunday killing more than 20 injuring many more, according to reports.

Investigators say a San Antonio-area couple punished their three young children by forcing one to brush her teeth with cat feces, using a shock collar as punishment and beating them with a thorny switch.

President Donald Trump is making an all-out push to show the federal government's responsiveness to the massive storm that has lashed the Texas coast and caused catastrophic flooding.

Some Southern Tier residents are in Texas and Louisiana to help with disaster recovery following the landfall of Hurricane Harvey.

A fifth person has died this week in the El Paso area after being pulled from the Rio Grande while attempting to cross from Mexico.