Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed last week at Utah Valley University. Authorities have called the killing a "political assassination."

The legal group says low-income people are disproportionately affected by the cost of bail and calls for using no-cash bail for nonviolent crimes. But President Donald Trump argues it's leading to a rise in crime.

A Tulsa pastor is taking the first steps to designate a new state holiday. According to an initiative petition filed with the Oklahoma Secretary of State, Greenwood Remembrance and Reconciliation Day would "recognize and honor the victims and survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre."

Quick-growing blooms of bacteria and algae have long been a hazard in lakes and rivers, because of the toxins they produce. Fueled in part by agricultural runoff, these blooms are also threatening public water systems, making water temporarily unusable, and forcing some cities and towns to take costly preventive measures.

Texas' Solar for All program was intended to bring solar panels and batteries to low-income neighborhoods and create jobs by training workers to install the technology.

Citing lack of standing for the legislator who brought a lawsuit against it, the Oklahoma Supreme Court allows Gov. Kevin Stitt's "return to work" executive order to stand.

One of the nation's first doctors accused of illegally providing care to transgender youth under GOP-led bans was found to have not violated the law, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office says, nearly a year after the state sued the physician.

A plaintiff in the case called Thursday's decision a "powerful step" toward protecting early education access.

The death of Charles Adair, 50, which has been ruled a homicide, was due to a common police procedure called prone restraint. "This is in the hands of the law officers," a medical expert said.

The Texas Medical Board took issue with a former South Texas congressional candidate calling himself a doctor. He says he never claimed to practice medicine, and the board is infringing on his political speech.