Senator Eliot Shapleigh - El Paso, Texas

More than 100 people are expected to join Senator Eliot Shapleigh in a press conference on Saturday.

She says levy would equalize school funding, eliminate Robin Hood.

El Paso lawmaker says region being hurt by regressive taxation, lack of investment and political polarization.

Virginia encourages its judges to sentence nonviolent offenders the way insurance agents write policies, based on a short list of factors.

Lawmakers Resist Temporary-Worker Proposal

Fifty-nine percent of its children live below the poverty level, and in the strange new arithmetic of want, in which poverty means not starvation but its opposite, it is also one of the fattest.

At night in his chambers, the federal judge would sign on to the Internet. He would pore over the details of criminal cases from around the country that had resulted in death sentences.

One of the sorriest chapters of American history, the gulling of native Indian tribes.

Lawmakers Resist Temporary-Worker Proposal

Speaker says measure is only way to end 'Robin Hood' school funding.

Legislative leaders have been working diligently for months to assess the State's needs, formulate legislative agendas and develop necessary and effective policies.

Educator who changed Texas’ education system wins January

Dallas hasn't financed system to protect vulnerable, relies on ill-funded state agency.

About a third of all Americans live in counties that do not meet seven-year-old standards for microscopic particles of pollution.

Surgeons have used stem cells from fat to help repair skull damage in a 7-year-old girl in Germany, in what's apparently the first time such fat-derived cells have been exploited to grow bone in a human.

The fiscal condition of the states improved this year, but soaring health costs have made it difficult.

When a faith-based hospital sues a grieving widow over medical debt, plunging her family deeper into poverty, some part of the health care system has clearly failed.

Plates will help restore Socorro Mission; Press conference is Saturday at 6 p.m.

Despite frequent business refrain, it is not costly mandates driving people away from insurance

Moreno says secret meeting with Hutchison highlights city's ethnic divide.