AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Budget writers in the Texas Senate are adding $5 billion in proposed spending that throws more money at everything from education to mental health.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A Texas Christian University student has been charged with evidence tampering in connection with the death of the grandson of billionaire T. Boone Pickens.

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) - Border Patrol officials have confiscated more than 3 tons of marijuana hidden in a tractor-trailer rig searched at a South Texas border checkpoint.

HOUSTON (AP) - The dilemma of the deteriorating Houston Astrodome remains unresolved with the passing of a deadline to put a bond referendum before voters in May.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Senate Public Education Committee will be considering overhauling standardized testing and high graduation requirements.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Diners will have to wait a little longer to find calorie counts on most restaurant chain menus, in supermarkets and on vending machines.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Hundreds of people are in Austin to lobby Texas lawmakers to support equality for lesbians, gays and the transgendered, including the right to marry.

HOUSTON (AP) - Emergency responders have suspended their search for a missing man whose kayak was found capsized at a Houston-area retention pond.

DALLAS (AP) - Dallas police are investigating whether the slaying of a 78-year-old woman whose body was found at her home was a botched burglary.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Thousands of teachers and other education staffers from across Texas are expected to join forces in Austin to support public schools.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Lawmakers want assurances that a proposed $2 billion to jumpstart water projects in Texas will be free of the conflicts that have dogged other lucrative funds flush with taxpayer dollars.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A new Gallup poll reports that Texas has the highest percentage of people ever recorded without health insurance at 28.8 percent.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The head of the Texas Senate Education Committee has filed a highly anticipated bill offering business tax credits for donations helping poor children leave public schools for private ones.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas troopers will be out in force on Friday at the start of spring break as part of an increased effort against drunken driving.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas unemployment rate for January rose slightly to 6.3 percent.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The South by Southwest Interactive and Film conferences are getting under way in Austin.

DALLAS (AP) - A 911 call reveals the frantic final minutes of a Dallas woman's life as she pleads with her attacker not to harm her.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and an Austin senator are promoting a bill that would allow elected bodies to hold open meetings online.

HOUSTON (AP) - Retail gasoline prices across Texas have slipped 5 cents this week as some travelers prepare for spring break vacations.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Both Texas senators joined the filibuster of the U.S. Senate confirmation vote on the nominee for intelligence director.

DALLAS (AP) - What the TV ads touting Texans' love of pickup trucks won't tell you is that so do Texas thieves.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Senate panel is considering proposed legislation prohibiting organizations linked to abortion providers from teaching sexual education in Texas schools.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A new study says the 24-hour waiting period for an abortion is causing women excessive hardship.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Craft beer brewers are asking Texas lawmakers to expand the market for their products.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A proposal to ban texting behind the wheel is making progress in the Texas Capitol.