HOUSTON (AP) - A federal appeals court has refused to stop the scheduled execution this week of a man convicted of killing a Houston police officer 14 years ago this week.

PARIS, Texas (AP) - Ninety-year-old Texas Congressman Ralph Hall says he's planning to run for another term next year, extending his tenure as the House's oldest member.

GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS -- Highway 75 lane closures begin tomorrow, due to concrete repairs from the Red River to the Collin County line.

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) - An Amarillo truck driver who suffered severe burns in a fiery West Texas crash in March that killed five teens in another car has died.

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) - A former Hidalgo County commissioner has pleaded no contest to public corruption charges related to a phantom employee program.

HOUSTON (AP) - The former president of a Port Arthur chemical company has pleaded guilty to occupational safety crimes that resulted in the death of an employee.

HOUSTON (AP) - An attorney for a Texas man accused of stabbing more than a dozen people at a Houston-area college says his client is glad that nobody died in the incident.

WACO, Texas (AP) - Texas law enforcement officials are launching a criminal investigation into last month's deadly fertilizer plant explosion.

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - Fire officials in West Texas say a chemical leak continues unabated and nearby residents are being kept away from their homes as a precaution.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - New details show Texas' charter school waitlist numbers can fluctuate due in large part to varied reporting standards and duplications.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Senate has approved and sent to Gov. Rick Perry a bill drastically reducing the hours of training needed to get a state concealed handgun license.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry has greeted President Barack Obama at the Austin airport with a handshake.

WEST, Texas (AP) - Some repair experts have been helping residents of a Central Texas town devastated by a deadly fertilizer plant explosion rebuild.

BRYAN, Texas (AP) - Health officials are working to determine the source of an E. coli outbreak in Central Texas that resulted in five people being hospitalized.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A convicted serial burglar blamed for stealing from dozens of North Texas businesses has been sentenced to 49 years in prison.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - On the brink of summer, defending Christmas is on the wish list of the Texas Legislature.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas House has approved a public school pilot program allowing parents to purchase supplemental concussion insurance for boys who play football and girls who play soccer.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - State health officials have raised mercury concerns in advising some people not to eat or to limit consumption of certain fish caught off the Texas coast.

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - A Houston man convicted of fatally shooting a 79-year-old woman outside a Southeast Texas courthouse last year has been sentenced to death.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Six children are being treated for injuries after their school bus collided with another vehicle on a busy North Texas highway.

GREENVILLE, Texas (AP) - An uncle of an East Texas girl last seen alive getting off a school bus has been charged in her 2012 slaying.

DALLAS (AP) - Traffic is up but a key revenue measure is down at Southwest Airlines Co. - indicating that carriers are finding it harder to sell high-priced tickets.

HOUSTON (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry is welcoming President Barack Obama ahead of his visit to Austin this week.

IRVING, Texas (AP) - Trader Joe's has chosen a site in suburban Dallas for the specialty grocer's first distribution center in Texas.

HILLSBORO, Texas (AP) - A body found over the weekend in northern Hill County has been identified as a 23-year-old woman who had been missing for about a week.