For the first time since her arrest after admitting she had killed her children, Andrea Pia Yates was released on bond Thursday, but was whisked directly to a state mental hospital in East Texas.

East Texas leaders are advocating for new construction funding at Rusk State Hospital. Sen. Robert Nichols (R-Jacksonville) and Rep. Travis Clardy (R-Nacogdoches), as well as local leaders from Rusk, ...