MCALLEN, Texas (AP) - The head of a human smuggling ring that since 2001 moved hundreds of illegal immigrants through South Texas to Houston has been sentenced to 12½ years in prison.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A convicted killer who faked being a police officer to try to sexually assault a woman has been sentenced to 90 years in a Texas prison.

HOUSTON (AP) - The suspect in an argument and gunfire at a Houston-area community college that left him and two other men shot has been booked into jail.

DALLAS (AP) - A suburban Dallas county sheriff says he doesn't consider all gun control unconstitutional after posting a statement saying he wouldn't enforce any laws that violate Second Amendment rights.

DALLAS (AP) - A Dallas woman convicted in the dehydration death of her 10-year-old stepson has been sentenced to 85 years in prison.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The owner of a North Texas topless club faces up to 10 years in prison for trying to orchestrate a plot to kill a mayor and an attorney.

CONROE, Texas (AP) - The parents of two children who were found living alone and unsupervised on an old renovated school bus in the Houston area have been granted full custody.

HOUSTON (AP) - A judge has sentenced the star prosecution witness in the trial of convicted Texas financier R. Allen Stanford to 5 years in prison for bilking investors out of more than $7 billion in one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history.

HOUSTON (AP) - Authorities say the shooting at a Texas community college was the result of an altercation between two people, and at least one was a student.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Three Texas lawmakers are planning to introduce legislation to give school districts more options in providing security on campus.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - A federal report says a South Texas state-run living center where residents with mental disabilities were once forced to fight is safer as it acts swiftly to protect residents from harm, including responding quickly to abuse accusations and completing investigations within 10 days.

LUFKIN, Texas (AP) - Officials say a Lufkin man was arrested after walking into the sheriff's office lobby in Angelina County with a gun and screaming at dispatchers.

CONROE, Texas (AP) - A 72-year-old woman was killed in a Southeast Texas car wash after an unsecured vehicle that was being cleaned ran her over.

DALLAS (AP) - With flu widespread in Texas during an earlier-than-normal season, church officials are making provisions to make sure parishioners stay healthy - from skipping the shared communion cup to encouraging a bow, nod or even a fist bump instead of the usual handshake.

CONROE, Texas (AP) - Authorities say a 4-year-old boy in Southeast Texas has died from injuries he sustained after being attacked by a pit bull.

GRAYSON COUNTY, TX - A Princeton, Texas, man who was shot last week attempting to burglarize a scrap yard outside Sherman last week died Monday morning, according to the Grayson County Sheriff's Office.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas jobless rate for December has slipped to 6.1 percent in the fourth straight month of declines.

MCALLEN, Texas (AP) - The U.S. Border Patrol says two Central American women have reported being raped by human smugglers in two separate incidents in South Texas.

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) - A West Texas doctor faces at least 10 years in prison for writing fake prescriptions for hydrocodone and sometimes not even seeing those patients.

HOUSTON (AP) - A Houston-area man has been sentenced to 45 years in prison in a child pornography investigation in which he described himself as a "monster."

DALLAS (AP) - Authorities say 20 North Texas residents have been indicted and more than 600 marijuana plants seized in a drug ring investigation.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - With key Republican state lawmakers pushing for expanding school vouchers, a group opposed to public funding for private schools is stating its case.

HOUSTON (AP) - Retail gasoline prices across Texas have slipped a penny this week.

NEW YORK (AP) - CVR Refining LP's units are up about 2 percent in their first hours of trading.

HOOKS, Texas (AP) - A military depot in Northeast Texas will lay off nearly 370 workers amid the downsizing of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.