Perry, Dewhurst Headline Texas Anti-Abortion Rally
AUSTIN (AP) — Top Texas Republicans are joining abortion opponents for an Austin rally marking the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision. Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David...
View ArticleGov. Perry Tours Granbury Neighborhood Hit By Tornado
Texas Governor Rick Perry and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott tour tornado damaged Rancho Brazos Estates area in Granbury – Friday May 17, 2013 GRANBURY (AP) – Gov. Rick Perry says the...
View ArticlePerry’s Decision Will Transform Texas Politics
Governor Rick Perry (credit: Scott Eells-Pool/Getty Images) AUSTIN (AP) — No matter what Gov. Rick Perry announces on Monday, his decision will transform politics in Texas. If the state’s...
View ArticleAttorney General Abbott Says He Raised Almost $5M
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott briefs the media after touring the West Fertilizer Company April 18, 2013 in West, Texas. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Attorney...
View ArticleAttorney General Abbott Campaigning In North Texas
DUNCANVILLE (CBSDFW.COM) – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is wasting no time in beginning his official campaign to succeed Rick Perry as governor. The well-financed and fierce social conservative...
View ArticleAbbott Returns To Hometown In Campaign For Governor
DUNCANVILLE (CBSDFW.COM) – Before a standing room only crowd in his hometown of Duncanville, Greg Abbott repeated what he started Sunday – he’s running for Governor. “I’m fighting for everyday,...
View ArticleU.S. Attorney General Targets Texas Voting Rights, Texas AG Strikes Back
WASHINGTON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — The battle lines are drawn in the fight over voting rights, with the Obama administration singling out Texas for legal action and promising broader efforts to come after...
View ArticleRedistricting Case Could Delay Texas Primaries
A voter places a sticker indicating that he has cast his ballot. (credit: Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images) AUSTIN (AP) — Politicians across the state are announcing their candidacies and hiring campaign...
View ArticleTexas AG Catching Heat For About-Face On AA Merger
NORTH TEXAS (CBS 11 NEWS) – Democrat or Republican — it doesn’t matter. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is facing heat for his about face on joining the U.S. Justice Department’s lawsuit to block...
View ArticleGreg Abbott Focuses On Jobs & Obamacare In Run For Governor
NORTH TEXAS (CBS 11 NEWS) – Greg Abbott told a crowd at North Dallas restaurant he will continue to fight against Obamacare as Governor of Texas, just as he has as state Attorney General. In fact, the...
View ArticleAbbott Targets Hiring In Latest Federal Lawsuit
AUSTIN (AP) — The state has sued the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over claims that federal guidelines hamstring employers from excluding convicted felons when hiring. The lawsuit filed...
View ArticleTexas Votes In First Election Day Under ID Law
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Texas voters went to the polls on Tuesday for the state’s first election requiring people to show ID. A new law requires voters to present one of seven forms of photo...
View ArticleAbbott, Davis Register Candidacies For Governor
(credit: Getty Images) AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and state Sen. Wendy Davis have formally registered their candidacies for their parties’ nominations for governor in...
View ArticleEducation Emerging As Issue In Abbott-Davis Race
(credit: Getty Images) SAN ANTONIO (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Classrooms in Texas are dramatically changing in 2014. So might education politics in the governor’s race. Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott...
View ArticleAttorney General Greg Abbott Incensed By Teen Probation Sentence
NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott called the sentence given to the 16-year-old who killed four people while driving drunk outrageous. Abbott spoke to CBS 11’s Joel Thomas...
View ArticleTexas Dems Try To Make Payday Lending Election Issue
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The tales of woe are many from those who have lived from paycheck to paycheck only to fall into a cycle of taking one payday loan after another to make ends meet, and Texas...
View ArticleMexican National’s Lawyers Want Texas Execution Halted
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) – Attorneys considered last-minute attempts Wednesday to keep a Mexican national from Texas’ death chamber after the state opposed legal efforts and spurned diplomatic pressure...
View ArticleRepublican Abbott To Unveil Border Security Agenda
DALLAS (AP) – Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott is laying out his border security agenda if elected governor in November. Abbott was expected Tuesday to roll out his plan at a Dallas nonprofit...
View ArticleAG Abbott: $300M Border Security Plan If Elected Governor
DALLAS, Texas (AP) - Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott says he wants to double state spending on border security and deploy an extra 500 troopers along the Texas-Mexico border if elected governor...
View ArticleDavis Calls For Settlement In School Finance Suit
AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) - Democratic candidate for governor Wendy Davis is calling on Texas to settle a school finance lawsuit and convene a special session of the Legislature. Davis said Monday that...
View ArticleGovernor Perry Condemns Nugent’s ‘Subhuman Mongrel’ Remark
AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Governor Rick Perry has condemned inflammatory remarks by Ted Nugent that resurfaced after the rocker campaigned with Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott. Nugent was quoted...
View ArticleBacklash From Nugent Comments Reveals Misstep For Texas GOP
AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Mitt Romney rallied with Kid Rock and President George W. Bush had a fan in Alice Cooper. But a Ted Nugent encore in the Texas governor’s race is growing unlikely after...
View ArticleGreg Abbott, Wendy Davis Target Hispanic Vote
NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - There’s a new so-called battle ground receiving more attention in this year’s governor’s race. Both Senator Wendy Davis and Attorney General Greg Abbott are both taking steps...
View ArticleWendy Davis Attacks Greg Abbott’s Pre-K Education Plan
DALLAS (CBS 11 NEWS) – It’s an education plan being proposed for 4-year-olds and one candidate for Texas governor says it doesn’t pass the test. While in Dallas Tuesday, Wendy Davis continued hammering...
View ArticleAbbott: Armed School Employees OK Under Texas Law
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Attorney General Greg Abbott says Texas school districts that authorize employees to carry handguns aren’t violating state law. The Texas Legislature last year approved a measure...
View ArticleAmid Nevada Fight, Texas In Its Own Land Dispute With BLM
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Texas land dispute has the outgoing governor and the Republican candidate favored to replace him decrying the same federal agency currently embroiled in an armed standoff in...
View ArticlePaxton Wins GOP Runoff For Texas Attorney General
AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Tea party favorite Ken Paxton has won the Republican nomination for Texas attorney general after a bruising runoff against fellow lawmaker Dan Branch. Paxton is now the...
View ArticleTexas Seeking Recusal Of School Finance Case Judge
AUSTIN (AP) — Attorney General Greg Abbott asked Monday for the district judge overseeing Texas’ sweeping school finance trial to recuse himself because of perceived bias in emails he exchanged with...
View ArticleAbbott: Texans Can Ask ‘Any Plant’ About Chemicals
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Attorney General Greg Abbott has decided previously that the state doesn’t have to disclose what potentially dangerous chemicals plants around Texas store. But he now clarifies...
View ArticleTexas AG Abbott: Gay-Marriage Ban In State’s Interest
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office is arguing that the U.S. Constitution allows Texas to ban same-sex marriage to promote the birth of children in “stable, lasting...
View ArticleAG: $3.9M Spent Defending GOP-Drawn Election Maps
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The legal fight spearheaded by Attorney General Greg Abbott to defend redistricting maps in federal court has cost Texas $3.9 million so far, with more to come. That cost and the...
View ArticleWendy Davis Escalates Push For Female Votes
PFLUGERVILLE, Texas (AP) — With time running out in an underachieving campaign for Texas governor, Democrat Wendy Davis is brandishing a darker and tougher edge in an aggressive courtship of female...
View ArticleJudge Declares Public School Financing System Unconstitutional
NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - It’s the ruling heard across the state that will affect millions of school children. State district Judge John Dietz of Austin ruled Thursday the state’s funding of public...
View ArticleAbbott Supports Prosecutors’ Unit Vetoed By Perry
RICHARDSON, Texas (AP) - Attorney General Greg Abbott on Tuesday said he supports keeping the state-funded unit of prosecutors investigating public corruption that Gov. Rick Perry vetoed, a move that...
View ArticleWendy Davis Attacks Greg Abbott In First Debate
EDINBURG (CBS 11 NEWS) – It was the hottest ticket in town. Hundreds of people came to watch Democrat Wendy Davis take-on Republican Greg Abbott in their first debate for Governor. Davis attacked...
View ArticleWendy Davis Accuses AG Greg Abbott Of Incentive Fund ‘Cover Up’
AUSTIN, Texas (CBSDFW/AP) – Democrat Wendy Davis is accusing Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott of a “cover up” involving economic incentive dollars on the eve of their final debate in the Texas...
View ArticleCourt Refuses To Reconsider Texas Abortion Ruling
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A federal appeals court dealt Texas abortion providers another blow Thursday when it refused to reconsider its previous ruling that upheld one part of tough restrictions that...
View ArticleWendy Davis Defends Wheelchair Ad
AUSTIN, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis on Monday defended her campaign television ad that highlights opponent Greg Abbott’s use of a wheelchair, denying...
View ArticleTexas Asks Supreme Court To Preserve Voter ID Law
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Republican Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to keep the state’s voter ID law in place with early voting starting next week. Abbott reminded the...
View ArticleGreg Abbott Defeats Davis, Elected Texas Governor
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter AUSTIN (CBSDFW/AP) —Texas overwhelmingly elected Republican Greg Abbott as the first new governor in 14 years on Tuesday night and elevated tea party leaders to...
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