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The Texas attorney general has accepted a deal on temporary voting maps that could salvage the state's April 3 date for primary elections.

Attorney General Greg Abbott said Monday that seven minority groups agreed to a plan that minimizes changes to the original redistricting maps drafted by the GOP-controlled Legislature.

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A Williamson County grand jury has indicted Mark Alan Norwood for the 1986 murder of Christine Morton.

The Christine Morton case is well known because her husband spent 25 years in prison for her murder until DNA evidence exonerated him last year.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says the indictment against Norwood could be a big step toward answering unresolved questions for Morton's family.

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Members of the UT chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas are still driving local politics in Austin and around the state, despite the ongoing deadlock in the national Republican primary race.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is asking a federal court to clear the way for the state's Voter ID law after the Department of Justice failed to clear it.

In a court case filed Monday, Abbott said the Obama administration was hostile to laws like the one passed last year in Texas, which requires voters to show a photo identification card in order to vote.

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From porn peddlers to district meddlers, the following quotes are among the best from the last few weeks.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott fired another salvo on Monday in the ongoing duel between Texas legislators and federal judges over the set of newly drawn political district maps.

The redistricting process, which generally occurs every 10 years to reflect population changes reported by the decennial U.S. census, is often contentious and always politically charged.

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The ongoing battle between the state government and the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") continued yesterday when Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed four new motions against the EPA.