'Texas 7' member on death row loses appeal
Posted: 2:25 PM HOUSTON (AP) - One of the remaining notorious "Texas 7" gang members on death row has lost a court appeal.
Posted: 2:25 PM HOUSTON (AP) - One of the remaining notorious "Texas 7" gang members on death row has lost a court appeal.
Posted: 2:22 PM McALLEN, Texas (AP) - Authorities say a routine investigation has yielded the largest drug seizure in the history of one South Texas police department.
Posted: 2:20 PM HOUSTON (AP) - The cost of demolishing the vacant Astrodome and building a parking lot in its place would be about $29 million.
Posted: 2:07 PM NEW YORK (AP) - A bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of Twinkies to a pair of investment firms.
Posted: 2:12 PM HOUSTON (AP) - A Houston surgeon who pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
Posted: 1:49 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Statewide officeholders would be limited to two consecutive terms under a proposed constitutional amendment advancing in the Capitol.
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Posted: 1:22 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Lawmakers are planning to hear testimony on who decides the terminally ill patient's fate when the family and doctors disagree.
Posted: 1:17 PM 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.
Posted: 1:14 PM 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.
Updated: 10:13 AM McKINNEY & SHERMAN, TEXAS -- TAPS may soon be acquiring routes in Collin County, merging with the Collin County Area Regional Transit service.
Posted: 1:26 PM SNYDER, Texas (AP) - Investigators are trying to identify a badly decomposed body found in West Texas.
Posted: 1:14 PM HOUSTON (AP) - Police say a man was fatally shot and an officer wounded twice in a confrontation that began when the man was seen driving erratically.
Posted: 1:13 PM SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) - Jury selection has begun in Central Texas in a murder case that has drawn national attention because the original defendant was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife and served 25 years in prison.
Posted: 1:13 PM PITTSBURGH (AP) - A federal judge in Pittsburgh has dismissed one lawsuit from people who bought tickets to the February 2011 Super Bowl in Dallas, but had to watch it on TV because their seats weren't properly installed in time for the game.
Posted: 3:24 PM FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A Republican from rural North Texas wants to put an end to Texas cities banning plastic bags.
Posted: 3:17 PM DALLAS (AP) - Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visits North Texas for a speaking engagement.
Updated: 3:17 PM DALLAS (AP) - A Mexican man has been returned to Dallas after a yearslong investigation to face charges that he raped two girls.
Posted: 3:13 PM DALLAS (AP) - A member of the Aryan Brotherhood is facing an extended prison sentence after admitting he committed a federal hate crime by severely beating another inmate he believed to be gay.
Posted: 3:11 PM BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) - Final testing is beginning next week at the first of two Texas prisons to get electronic systems designed to make cell phones smuggled to inmates useless.
Posted: 1:34 PM DALLAS (AP) - One man is dead and another wounded following an altercation outside a Dallas nightclub that involved an off-duty police officer.
Posted: 1:32 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Lawmakers have taken the first step to set up a $2 billion fund to finance water projects across the state.
Updated: 1:30 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas lawmakers are renewing the debate on allowing concealed handguns into college classrooms.
Posted: 1:11 PM MESQUITE, Texas (AP) - Police say they've found the bodies of four adults in a suburban Dallas house days after receiving reports that shots had been fired.
Posted: 1:07 PM DALLAS (AP) - The U.S. Census Bureau reports the population of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan region soared faster over a one-year period than any other in the country, with the Houston area coming in second.
