Updated: 1:50 PM DENISON, TX -- Texas high schoolers could soon be tested, less. A new bill that's just passed the House is trying to improve standardized testing in schools.

Updated: 7:22 AM SHERMAN, TX -- Sherman Police say at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, shots were fired at a home on the corner of Gribble and Odneal streets.

Updated: 7:24 AM SHERMAN, TX -- A Sherman home is destroyed by fire Wednesday afternoon.

Updated: 9:57 AM SHERMAN, TEXAS -- Grayson County Judge Drue Bynum spoke to some young leaders and business professionals this afternoon, encouraging them to be more civically engaged.

Posted: 6:58 PM Commissioners promised voters in 2010 to cut the operating budget of the new jail if they passed a sales tax increase to fund construction. But at Monday's budget meeting, commissioners voted 2-1 to keep funding for the jail budget at the same levels.

Posted: 6:58 PM BRYAN COUNTY, OK -- A preliminary hearing conference was continued today for a Bennington man arrested on drug charges, after he allegedly shot two men in his home.

Updated: 5:08 PM Paris ISD looks to refinance their $8 million debt.

Updated: 10:28 AM LEBANON, OK - A Marshall County woman returned home from running errands Wednesday morning to find her home fully engulfed in flames.

Updated: 5:03 PM Traffic around Loop 286 in Paris will be moving a little slower over the next couple of months.

Posted: 1:52 PM TYLER, Texas (AP) - A 1941 Pearl Harbor victim's Purple Heart found along a California road has been returned to his East Texas family thanks to a teacher and his students.

Posted: 1:33 PM HOUSTON (AP) - James Arnt Aune was regarded as a fine scholar, mentor and friend by students and his fellow professors at Texas A&M University, where he headed the school's Department of Communication.

Posted: 1:24 PM NEW YORK (AP) - Surveys show most Americans would rather die at home than in a hospital. Now, a new government study suggests more and more people getting their wish.

Updated: 1:18 PM WASHINGTON (AP) - For a second day, demonstrators are outside the Supreme Court as the justices hear a case involving gay marriage.

Updated: 9:31 AM SHERMAN, TEXAS -- Former Sherman police chief Stephen Charles Pilant was arrested for the sexual assault of a child.

Updated: 10:17 AM FANNIN COUNTY, TX - Last year the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned a murder conviction and life sentence for a Bonham man in the 2008 death of a toddler.

Posted: 9:02 AM ROFF, Okla. (AP) - The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says two people are dead after a three-vehicle crash in south central Oklahoma.

Posted: 11:25 PM ATOKA, OK-Atoka hospital officials met Tuesday to discuss a damaging report released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services after a recent investigation.

Posted: 10:41 PM OKLAHOMA -- Both the Oklahoma House and Senate have approved a bill to allow horse slaughtering in the state, sparking a heated debate statewide.

Updated: 7:27 AM DENISON, TX -- The first TAPS Park and Ride shelter is now ready for riders.

Updated: 10:17 PM More trains could be pulling in and out of Ardmore's station in the future.

Updated: 4:03 PM COLLIN COUNTY, TX -- Collin County now has a court system aimed at helping veterans who find themselves in trouble with the law. It is a program that has already had success elsewhere in the state. Monday the county kicked off the new program with a celebration at the courthouse. Collin County leaders, local veterans and even United States Congressman Sam Johnson took part. We spoke with the district judge who helped make the Veterans' Court possible for Collin County.

Posted: 6:14 PM SHERMAN, TX -- Traffic on FM 1417 came to a stop Tuesday afternoon, after a car rear-ended a cement truck.

Posted: 6:10 PM DENISON, TX -- An attic fire at a Denison house Tuesday morning caused damage to a both woman's home and a Denison fire truck.

Updated: 2:17 PM SHERMAN, TEXAS -- This quarter's economic dashboard gives two thumbs up for the region's labor force and unemployment rate.

Updated: 7:27 AM ADA, OK -- The City of Ada began construction on the Townsend Street project this week.