"I knew they would be looking for me all the time, so I was always watching my back," Salaz said from the William P. Clements Jr. Unit outside Amarillo, where he's being kept in isolation for ...

Former Gov. Bill Clements, the first Republican governor in Texas since Reconstruction, has died at 94, according to Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst.

Inaugurated in 1979, Clements served two terms as governor despite losing his first re-election bid. The oilman ran Texas under the belief that state government should operate like a big business.

He kept a sharp eye out for police and eluded capture each time they got close, stringing together more than a decade-and-a-half of freedom that made him the longest escaped inmate in recent Texas ...

Bill Clements, a brash Republican millionaire who helped break Democrats’ century-long hold on Texas politics when he was elected governor in 1978, died May 29 at a Dallas area hospital.