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

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

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

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Stephen Harrigan explores his own Catholic boyhood in Texas—and the prophecy left behind by a Portuguese prophet girl—in a ...

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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 ...

The state created “Texas Partnership” charter schools to turn around struggling public campuses, but an Observer investigation has uncovered numerous academic and financial issues.