State News
A state judicial ethics commission has suspended a Galveston judge without pay following his arrest on eight charges related to his actions from the bench.
May 24, 2013
An Arlington woman on Texas death row for the starvation death of a 9-year-old boy has lost a federal court appeal, moving her a step closer to execution.
May 24, 2013
A woman has been killed and her three children injured after their car was struck at a Houston intersection by another car carrying shoplifting suspects being pursued by police.
May 24, 2013
Former President George W. Bush is hosting a 100-kilometer mountain bike ride at his Central Texas ranch for military members wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
May 24, 2013
Federal forecasters are predicting yet another busy hurricane season.
May 23, 2013
Population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau are showing that Houston is the second-fastest growing big city in the nation while medium-sized enclaves in Texas also saw spikes.
May 23, 2013
One driver has been killed and three students injured when a car drifted into oncoming traffic and struck a school bus in East Texas.
May 22, 2013
An East Texas pastor faces up to 10 years in prison for an online chat from church with an alleged 14-year-old girl who turned out to be a Louisiana trooper.
May 22, 2013
A proposed ban on sales of sugary sodas in public elementary and junior high schools is on its way to the governor.
May 21, 2013
Authorities say an Ohio man has been arrested in West Texas after a state trooper found about 50 pounds of cocaine valued at more than $1.6 million hidden in a false compartment of a vehicle.
May 21, 2013
The Texas House is considering a proposal that would create special districts operated by turnaround experts to improve struggling schools.
May 21, 2013
Texas lawmakers will be voting on whether to require some welfare recipients to take drug tests.
May 21, 2013
Members of an elite search and rescue team from Texas have been dispatched to Oklahoma to help with recovery following a deadly tornado.
May 21, 2013
As Congress takes up immigration reform, lawmakers seeking tighter border security may have to confront the reality of places such as Matamoros, Mexico, and other border towns controlled by drug cartels.
May 20, 2013
Two women playing video games at a North Texas convenience store and a worker have been burned after a suspect set one of those customers on fire.
May 20, 2013
Texas has become the fifth state to sue British oil company BP over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, seeking damages for the 2010 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
May 17, 2013
An elderly South Texas man has survived more than 200 bee stings when he was swarmed while mowing some grass.
May 17, 2013
Gov. Rick Perry is holding a special ceremony to sign into law a proposal attempting to limit future wrongful convictions as the legislative session enters its final, frantic days.
May 16, 2013
A North Texas county sheriff says seven people remain unaccounted for after a massive tornado claimed six lives.
May 16, 2013
A tornado slammed into a North Texas lakefront town of Granbury, demolishing homes and injuring an undetermined number of people.
May 15, 2013
A pregnant Houston-area woman has been charged with offering her 3-year-old son for adoption on Craigslist in an advertisement signed "Desperate."
May 15, 2013
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new injectable drug that uses radiation to treat advanced prostate cancer that has spread to the bones.
May 15, 2013
An American Airlines jet bound from Dallas-Fort Worth to New Mexico has made an emergency landing in Amarillo amid reports of smoke in the plane.
May 15, 2013
An advocacy group says only two-thirds of Texans who may be eligible for food stamp assistance received the benefits in 2011.
May 15, 2013
State and federal agents will release this week the findings of an investigation into a deadly explosion at a Central Texas fertilizer plant.
May 14, 2013
The lead singer of the Grammy-winning Tejano group La Mafia has suffered head wounds in an unprovoked attack outside a Houston club.
May 14, 2013
A new state commission would investigate wrongful convictions under a bill advancing in the Texas Legislature.
May 14, 2013
Officials and community leaders are this week commemorating 19 individuals who died in what became America's deadliest human smuggling attempt.
May 14, 2013
The country's four biggest cellphone companies are set to launch their first joint advertising campaign against texting while driving, uniting behind AT&T's "It Can Wait" slogan to blanket TV and radio this summer.
May 14, 2013
The Texas House has approved raising to 18 the minimum age for using a tanning facility.
May 13, 2013
