AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas' high child poverty rate is beginning to make demands on the state's budget, and experts warn the state needs to spend more on education or the state's economy could slow.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas lawmakers want to hear from experts and the public on ideas for improving school safety in the wake of last month's shootings at a Connecticut elementary school.

SHERMAN, TX - A second suspect involved with an attempted theft at Stinky's Scrap Metal has been arrested.

NEW YORK (AP) - The Boys Scouts of America is considering a dramatic change in its controversial policy of excluding gays as leaders and youth members.

DURANT, OKLAHOMA -- Oil paintings were added to the gallery Sunday evening as guests arrived for the Minnie Baker Art Show.

GARVIN COUNTY, OK -- A traffic advisory in Garvin County.

GARVIN COUNTY, OK - A Garvin County crash sent a Texas woman to the hospital Sunday morning.

LEHIGH, OK -- Coal County Undersheriff Bobby Hatton confirms that the man hunt for 41-year-old Timothy Paul Horn is over.

Hunters in Lebanon brought in game for a good cause.

Authorities say a local man was found dead in Springer, Oklahoma this afternoon.

LEHIGH, OK -- Multiple agencies are still looking for a man they say tried to kidnap his wife in Coal County Saturday morning. Morgan Downing has more on what has now become a nearly 10 hour manhunt.

DENISON, TX -- Family and friends are grieving the loss of a 28-year old Denison woman, killed in a freak accident Thursday night. At a candlelight vigil Friday, they told us the car that crashed into Jennifer Comstock's Denison home last night, took two lives.

Patrolling the highways might not pay all the bills for some Oklahoma Highway patrol troopers.

GAINESVILLE, TX -- An Oklahoma woman charged with murder appeared in a Gainesville courtroom today.

The Sherman Chamber of Commerce celebrated its 100th anniversary at its annual awards luncheon Friday. The event included a keynote speech by former Dallas Cowboy Ed "Too Tall" Jones.

DURANT, OK-Three people involved in a fatal accident on Highway 69/75 in Durant Thursday are now in stable condition.

GRAYSON CO., TX-A Gunter man is in the hospital after crashing into a tree Friday afternoon.

ARDMORE, OK - Friday morning a gas line sprung a leak in Ardmore.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Governor Mary Fallin will urge lawmakers to consider a one-time tax cut with no offsetting loss of exemptions or deductions when the Legislature convenes on February 4th.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Republican lawmaker has filed a bill that would allow Texans to openly carry handguns in public places.

SHERMAN, TX - Dozens of Austin College students took a break from the classroom to serve area children.

DURANT, OK - A metal mailbox sent through the mail led Durant narcotics officers right to a suspected drug dealer.

GRAYSON COUNTY, TX - A Texoma man who investigators say cheated Grayson and Cooke County residents out of money has been indicted.

WHITESBORO - A man suspected of three car thefts in Whitesboro is behind bars in Cooke County.

DENISON, TX -- One person has died from their injuries, after a car slammed into a Denison home.