A radio station manager says the theft of its giant tower has silenced what used to be the voice of a small Alabama town and surrounding county.

A Texas Tribune analysis of hate crime data found that 82% of Texas law enforcement agencies that report to the FBI tracked no hate crimes last year. However, one suburban North Texas police agency is creating a new model of collecting hate crime data.

Livingston and Jasper residents hope a lawsuit will force their municipality-operated utility company to offer lower rates and create more transparency in setting rates. They’re among the 5 million Texans living outside the state’s deregulated market and cannot choose their energy provider.

Jasper’s second Black mayor wants to help residents pay their bills while a younger city council wants to invest in the city’s culture. Residents call their heated arguments at city council meetings “foolishness” and “embarrassing.”

A little league coach has pleaded guilty to federal child exploitation charges in the Eastern District of Texas, the United States Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

Texas Rural Funders hopes a one-stop resource for grant applications and writers could help small towns win money to fund innovation and capital needs.

The quiet East Texas town of Jasper came together immediately after the racist murder of James Byrd Jr. Now, Texas is leading the nation in incidents of white supremacist propaganda.

Nine people were shot at an after-prom party in an east Texas county Sunday, authorities said.

A sheriff's office in Texas says nine teenagers were shot at a prom after-party attended by hundreds.

Women in Deep East Texas drive over an hour to give birth after the last obstetrics unit in the area closed in 2019. But if closing the unit was hard, reopening it is proving nearly impossible.

Running elections in Texas has never been easy. But since 2020, the scrutiny elections administrators face has grown — even in small Republican-controlled counties that former President Donald Trump carried.

The implementation of a four-day school week is gaining some traction across Texas.

Could a four-day school week work in Texas?

The woman authorities believe is responsible for a 5-year-old boy’s death was expected to appear in court Thursday, but the date has been pushed back.

High-profile attorney Anthony Osso was assigned to the capital murder case against Theresa Balboa.

Theresa Raye Balboa, who was the girlfriend of Samuel Olson’s father, has been charged with capital murder in connection with the death of the 5-year-old after his body was found in a Jasper motel room in June.

The man investigators say drove Theresa Balboa to the Jasper motel room where Samuel Olson was found has been charged in the case.

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Two weeks after 5-year-old Samuel Olson’s body was found in a motel room in Jasper, Texas, the boy’s mother is set to speak out for the first time on Tuesday.

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The body of the child found in a motel room in Jasper, Texas has been positively identified as 6-year-old Samuel Olson, the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences announced Tuesday afternoon.

Bond is now set at $500,000 for Theresa Balboa, the woman charged after a child’s body was found in a motel in Jasper, Texas, during the search for missing Houston boy, Samuel Olson.

A mug shot has been released of Theresa Balboa, the woman jailed after a child's body was found in Jasper, Texas.

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The Jasper Bulldogs went undefeated in district play in 2019 under the direction of Darrell Barbay, who has been pacing the sidelines since 2012. The 'Dogs went two rounds deep in the playoffs and return 10 starters in the fall. Jasper is going to win old school -- on the ground and with a stingy defense. On the ground is RB Carl Limbrick, who went off for nearly 1,400 yards and 28 TDs. The defense is led by an outstanding LB corps made up of LaKendrick Garrett, Sean Singleton and Kaleb Sells.

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Police in Jasper, Alabama are searching for a man who robbed at least two churches while wearing a Batman-style mask. King’s Way Church Pastor Jason Hooper says the Batman Bandit used a rock to break the front window. The man stole a keyboard and bass guitar, committing his crime in just one minute and 18 seconds. "Your frustrated, because looking at the gentleman walking through and the way he navigated the building reveals that he is someone we've helped somehow someway," Hooper says. Police believe the batman bandit is responsible for other break-ins in Jasper, Georgia, and Tennessee.