IRVING, Texas (AP) - Scouts and their families have delivered a petition to the Boy Scouts national headquarters in Texas urging the organization to end its policy excluding gay scouts and leaders.
STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) - Former Navy SEAL and expert sniper Chris Kyle was devoted to helping his fellow veterans navigate life after active duty.
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) - A West Texas jail inmate pleaded guilty to mailing a threatening letter to a federal judge in Lubbock.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Federal prosecutors say members of a South Texas family collected more than $750,000 in refunds by filing false tax claims using the names of dead people.
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (AP) - Two people are dead and two injured after a fiery highway crash in the Dallas suburb of Grand Prairie.
KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) - A North Texas police chief says he doesn't have any information suggesting that a top-notch prosecutor feared for his life before he was fatally shot outside his office.
PARIS, TX - A car collided with a house Thursday morning in Paris after it was rear-ended by another vehicle.
HOUSTON (AP) - Relatives of a man injured in the recent shooting at a Lone Star College campus in Houston describe him as an aspiring tattoo artist who wasn't looking for trouble.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Education Committee has referred to the full Texas Senate a measure allowing local school districts to decide how much they want STAAR exam results to count toward high school students' grades.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers is promising to end the diversion of dedicated funds from their intended purposes.
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A North Texas jury has sentenced a man to 15 years in prison for biting off the nose of a person he quarreled with while washing a car.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Testimony in Texas' sweeping school finance trial has ended - setting up a potentially landmark ruling next week by state District Judge John Dietz.
KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) - Authorities say an assistant district attorney has been shot and killed near the North Texas county courthouse where he worked.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Sen. Judith Zaffirini and Rep. Tom Craddick have brought the victims of texting-while-driving accidents to the Capitol to build support for a ban on the practice.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - A former South Texas high school teacher has been sentenced to more than nine years in federal prison for having child pornography at his home.
DALLAS (AP) - A Texas trooper faces dismissal amid the investigation of her videotaped body cavity search of two women along a Dallas-area highway.
DALLAS (AP) - A Dallas-area man charged in a 2011 mutilation attack that left his girlfriend needing more than 500 stitches says she was the aggressor in earlier fights.
DALLAS (AP) - A Dallas man with ties to the hacking group Anonymous has been declared mentally competent to stand trial as he faces three separate federal indictments.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A top Texas senator says the state must change how it pays for health and human services.
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - A judge has decided a Fort Hood shooting suspect still can face the death penalty if convicted in the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military installation.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A natural gas-fired power plant will be built in South Texas and is expected to meet the electricity needs of 100,000 homes.
VAN, Texas (AP) - Authorities say two people are injured, one critically, after an oil storage tank exploded at a facility in East Texas.
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Defense lawyers have made a late request to halt the execution of a Texas woman set to become the first female put to death in the U.S. in three years.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry wants to tap the Rainy Day Fund to spend $3.7 billion on critical water and transportation systems in the state.
