AUSTIN, Texas — A bill filed in the Texas House this legislative session would decriminalize homosexual conduct in Texas. House Bill 1738, filed by State Rep. Venton Jones (D-Dallas), would repeal a ...

In 1975, Texas Representative Craig Washington spearheaded the first-ever effort to repeal Texas Penal Code section 21.06, which made "homosexual conduct" a criminal offense. The bill failed in the ...

This is Texas, where sodomy is still in the penal code and its conservative leaders like it that way. Legislators criminalized such behavior back to the 1800s. When the Texas penal code needed ...

The Grimes County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s assistance in locating Eugenio Chavez, who is wanted for assaulting a pregnant person, a third-degree felony under ...