Former Gov. Rick Perry is back in Texas government as a senior adviser to House Speaker Dade Phelan. Phelan made the announcement Thursday morning in a news release touting Perry’s previous posts as a ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- It's fair to say Donald Trump is the headliner in Cleveland, Ohio this week. Polling atop all 17 Republican presidential candidates in 2016, the bombastic and unapologetic, has a ...

Gov. Rick Perry was a champion of fiercely conservative social activism long before the tea party was born. He oversaw the "Texas Miracle" job-creation boom and became the most powerful Texas governor ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for allegedly abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating ...

The felony prosecution of former Texas Gov. Rick Perry ended Wednesday when the state's highest criminal court dismissed an abuse-of-power indictment that the Republican says hampered his short-lived ...

Governor Rick Perry publicly endorsed “lean, finely textured beef” today. Governors from Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and the Lt. Gov. Matt Michels, standing in for South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard, who is ...

Texas' longest-serving governor throws his hat into the GOP presidential race. August 13, 2011 -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry shook up the 2012 race today when he made his candidacy official in Charleston, ...

WASHINGTON -- Members of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol believe that former Texas Governor and Trump Energy Secretary Rick Perry was the author of a text ...

AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) – The Democratic gubernatorial candidate and committee funding her campaign to become Texas’ next governor reacted immediately to Friday’s news that GOP Gov. Rick Perry, ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD (KTRK) -- In a candid evening interview, former Texas Governor Rick Perry told Eyewitness News Anchor Tom Abrahams he is looking forward to reintroducing himself to the ...

President-elect Donald Trump has made his pick for the leader of the Department of Energy: former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who famously once forgot that he wanted to abolish the Energy Department, ...

Perry is the new secretary of energy. — -- Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry was confirmed Thursday as secretary of the Department of Energy -- an agency he had once sought to eliminate. When running ...