An indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Dallas last week, and unsealed Friday, March 24, charged eight individuals — including one Waxahachie resident — with offenses related to their participation in a $158 million health care fraud scheme.

Since 2003, there’s been at least one issue nearly all Texas Republicans could unite behind — tort reform. “Twenty to 30 years ago, Texas was known as a haven for plaintiff lawyers and jackpot justice,” said Tom Mechler, chairman of the Republican Party of Texas.

If you think it’s a pain talking to insurance agents about hail damage, try making the call to report about 1,000 cars. That’s the case for one North Texas car dealer whose entire inventory came under fire from the recent storm.

A witness to a deadly Texas wreck involving a church minibus says the driver of a pickup truck that crossed the center line repeatedly apologized and acknowledged he had been texting while driving.

The southeast braced for more severe weather on Monday after an outbreak of tornadoes swept across the region on Sunday, killing two people in Louisiana while flooding is being blamed for one death in Texas.

Two tornadoes have been confirmed based on damage left behind by overnight storms in North Texas, according to the National Weather Service. Damage consistent with an EF-1 tornado was found in Lewisville, and EF-0 evidence was found in Tarrant County.

Thirteen people traveling in a minibus bringing senior churchgoers back from a retreat were killed Wednesday in a two-vehicle crash in the Texas Hill Country, officials said.

Three storm chasers were killed Tuesday after their cars collided at an intersection during severe West Texas storms. Lt. Bryan Witt of the Texas Department of Public Safety says the crash involved a Jeep and a Chevrolet Suburban sport utility vehicle.

Golf ball and baseball-sized hail pounded rooftops in Collin County on Sunday night, leaving many homeowners to wake up to damaged roofs — roofs that some had just replaced from last year’s storms.

When mass-producing packaged foods, one of the goals is to prevent pieces of the processing equipment out of the food. A plant that makes José Olé products came up short of that aspiration, resulting in a recall of 17.5 tons of taquitos that could contain pieces of plastic and rubber.

A severe storm brought gigantic hail to parts of Oklahoma and Texas on Sunday. The storm also delivered heavy rain and winds as high as 65 miles per hour in some areas in the Southern Plains.

A Mount Pleasant High School track coach was killed and 18 students hurt Thursday night in a crash involving a school bus, an 18-wheeler and a car. The crash happened around 10:45 p.m. near the town of Talco, about 25 miles north of Mount Pleasant.

When the Schwerzenbach family saw a wildfire racing toward their remote ranch in Lipscomb, Texas, there was no time to run. "We had a minute or two and then it was over us," said 56-year-old Nancy Schwerzenbach.

Kansas rancher Greg Gardiner got into some of his scorched pastures for the first time Wednesday and surveyed what he likened to a battle zone: carcasses of dead cattle everywhere.

McArthur Baker, 69, a former U.S. Postal Service employee, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 21 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme to defraud the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Worker’s Compensation Program (OWCP), announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.