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.

TERRELL, Texas (AP) - One person is dead in a plane crash near an airport east of Dallas.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Accounting loopholes the Texas Legislature has long used to balance the state budget would be tightened under two key proposals filed by House Republicans.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A key Senate panel has endorsed the closure of a $54 million private state prison in North Texas that ranks among the most dangerous lockups in the state.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - State officials say they're ending a "stupid" policy that required lawmakers to submit to background checks each time they entered the Texas governor's mansion.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - More than 300 members of the clergy are calling on the Texas Legislature to boost funding for women's health programs.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Republicans in the Texas House have voted against expanding Medicaid in its current form, but left open the door to negotiations with the federal government.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - State agriculture officials say cotton plantings this year may drop by as much as 25 percent.

ANGEL FIRE, N.M. (AP) - Authorities say four people from Texas were killed when their single-engine airplane crashed during takeoff at an airport in northern New Mexico.

PLANO, Texas (AP) - A judge has ruled a man charged with attempting to bomb a suburban Dallas natural gas pipeline is competent to stand trial.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Former President George W. Bush says the late pianist Van Cliburn spread peace and love through his music.

DALLAS (AP) - Musician and humorist Kinky Friedman says he isn't ruling out another run for governor in 2014.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - American Airlines wants to operate more flights to Brazil.