Posted: 1:25 PM HOUSTON (AP) - Retail gasoline prices across Texas have slipped 5 cents this week as some travelers prepare for spring break vacations.

Posted: 1:19 PM WASHINGTON (AP) - Both Texas senators joined the filibuster of the U.S. Senate confirmation vote on the nominee for intelligence director.

Posted: 9:46 AM DALLAS (AP) - What the TV ads touting Texans' love of pickup trucks won't tell you is that so do Texas thieves.

Posted: 2:15 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Senate panel is considering proposed legislation prohibiting organizations linked to abortion providers from teaching sexual education in Texas schools.

Posted: 2:12 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A new study says the 24-hour waiting period for an abortion is causing women excessive hardship.

Posted: 2:09 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Craft beer brewers are asking Texas lawmakers to expand the market for their products.

Posted: 2:06 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A proposal to ban texting behind the wheel is making progress in the Texas Capitol.

Posted: 1:58 PM TERRELL, Texas (AP) - One person is dead in a plane crash near an airport east of Dallas.

Posted: 1:53 PM 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.

Posted: 1:51 PM 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.

Posted: 1:49 PM 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.

Posted: 1:43 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - More than 300 members of the clergy are calling on the Texas Legislature to boost funding for women's health programs.

Posted: 1:41 PM 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.

Posted: 1:53 PM COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - State agriculture officials say cotton plantings this year may drop by as much as 25 percent.

Posted: 1:49 PM 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.

Posted: 1:48 PM 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.

Posted: 1:39 PM FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Former President George W. Bush says the late pianist Van Cliburn spread peace and love through his music.

Posted: 1:26 PM DALLAS (AP) - Musician and humorist Kinky Friedman says he isn't ruling out another run for governor in 2014.

Posted: 1:20 PM FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - American Airlines wants to operate more flights to Brazil.

Posted: 1:18 PM CARTHAGE, Texas (AP) - The sheriff of an East Texas county has been arrested in a public corruption investigation involving alleged theft, abuse of power and fraud.

Posted: 1:17 PM ODESSA, Texas (AP) - West Texas authorities are scheduled to provide an update on the death of a 3-year-old Russian boy who died last month after his adoptive mother found him unresponsive outside the family's home.

Posted: 1:15 PM DALLAS (AP) - Southern Methodist University has put a fraternity on deferred suspension after three members were charged with misdemeanor assault in the alleged beating of a student from another fraternity.

Posted: 1:14 PM HOUSTON (AP) - A divided federal appeals court panel has thrown out the capital murder conviction of a former Fort Worth street gang leader sentenced to die for gunning down a Dallas father of four during an attempted robbery in 2001.

Posted: 3:36 PM AUSTIN, TX - Today, is the deadline for the current cycle of the Texas prepaid tuition program.

Posted: 1:36 PM PITTSBURGH (AP) - Federal prosecutors say a former Carnegie Mellon University trustee used funds from a scam to make a $200,000 donation to the school.