MESQUITE, Texas (AP) - Police say a Dallas-area driver is in stable condition after another driver fired 15 rounds at his vehicle in a road rage incident, hitting him once in the head.

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) - Federal authorities say three men have been sentenced as part of a crackdown on a major drug distribution ring that operated in the Wichita Falls region and included at least 30 people.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is broadening its examination of affirmative action by adding a case about Michigan's effort to ban consideration of race in college admissions.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A coalition of 22 industry trade organizations says it strongly supports a bill to reduce standardized testing and increase emphasis on career training in Texas high schools.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Veterans Commission has provided $3 million in grants to more than two dozen organizations that help veterans readjust to civilian life.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Another Air Force basic training instructor in South Texas has been sentenced to prison in a sex scandal and will be booted out of the military.

HOUSTON (AP) - A Houston man is jailed on charges he repeatedly raped an 11-year-old neighbor who became pregnant.

GEORGETOWN, Texas (AP) - A Houston man has been charged with murder in the 1991 disappearance of his estranged wife whose body was never found.

DECATUR, Texas (AP) - Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper says officials aren't sure yet whether a paroled prison inmate wounded Thursday in a Texas shootout is the man who gunned down his state's prisons chief, but says there is some indication that's the case.

HOUSTON (AP) - Retail gasoline prices across Texas have increased 3 cents this week.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Financially ailing public schools could receive another $500 million for the remainder of the school year under a new proposal in the Texas House.

ORANGE, Texas (AP) - A Southeast Texas man has been sentenced to life in prison for shooting at some Orange police officers trying to serve a drug warrant.

SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) - Authorities say two heavily armed Oklahoma teens have been killed while apparently trying to break into a North Texas home.

KINGSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Officials say six suspected illegal immigrants were killed and nine were injured when a truck being pursued by Kingsville police crashed into a security barrier at Naval Air Station Kingsville.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The head of the Senate Education Committee has broken into tears as he promised to fight for dramatically expanding "school choice" in Texas.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas House members have discussed a proposed ban on school districts requiring their students to use ID badges embedded with locator chips.

HOUSTON (AP) - One of the remaining notorious "Texas 7" gang members on death row has lost a court appeal.

McALLEN, Texas (AP) - Authorities say a routine investigation has yielded the largest drug seizure in the history of one South Texas police department.

HOUSTON (AP) - The cost of demolishing the vacant Astrodome and building a parking lot in its place would be about $29 million.

NEW YORK (AP) - A bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of Twinkies to a pair of investment firms.

HOUSTON (AP) - A Houston surgeon who pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Statewide officeholders would be limited to two consecutive terms under a proposed constitutional amendment advancing in the Capitol.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Lawmakers are planning to hear testimony on who decides the terminally ill patient's fate when the family and doctors disagree.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The state would pay for school employees to learn to carry a gun on the job under a proposal set for consideration at the Capitol.

NORTH ZULCH, Texas (AP) - A truck hauling live chickens and a freight train have collided in a Central Texas wreck that left the driver hurt and several cars derailed.