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: 2:23 PM HOUSTON (AP) - A federal jury has convicted two men who were part of a Houston-area bank robbery ring that involved a dozen other people.

Posted: 2:21 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - New tools for prosecutors in cases of sexual assault against children are advancing through the state Capitol.

Posted: 1:24 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Senate has approved new rules to help small brewers expand.

Posted: 1:22 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - State leaders will announce the launch of a $91 million vaccine manufacturing center at Texas A&M University that will create thousands of jobs while protecting the country against future biological threats and influenza pandemics.

Posted: 1:18 PM DALLAS (AP) - Dallas Cowboys guard Josh Brent faces trial Sept. 23 on an intoxication manslaughter charge in a car wreck that killed a teammate.

Posted: 2:55 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Vietnam veterans have broken ground on a monument at the state Capitol.

Posted: 2:18 PM KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) - A pending lawsuit could be the first test of a two-year-old Texas law that's supposed to limit suits against outdoor gun ranges.

Posted: 2:15 PM 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.

Posted: 2:12 PM 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.

Posted: 1:50 PM 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.

Posted: 1:22 PM 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.

Posted: 3:27 PM 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.

Posted: 3:23 PM 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.

Posted: 3:22 PM HOUSTON (AP) - A Houston man is jailed on charges he repeatedly raped an 11-year-old neighbor who became pregnant.

Posted: 3:21 PM GEORGETOWN, Texas (AP) - A Houston man has been charged with murder in the 1991 disappearance of his estranged wife whose body was never found.

Updated: 9:04 AM 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.

Posted: 1:55 PM HOUSTON (AP) - Retail gasoline prices across Texas have increased 3 cents this week.

Posted: 1:48 PM 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.

Posted: 1:43 PM 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.

Updated: 1:41 PM SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) - Authorities say two heavily armed Oklahoma teens have been killed while apparently trying to break into a North Texas home.

Posted: 1:30 PM 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.

Posted: 1:27 PM 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.

Posted: 2:31 PM 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.