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.

MCALLEN, Texas (AP) - The sons of two prominent South Texas law enforcement officials are among three ex-officers set for arraignment on allegations they took money to escort drug loads.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The public opinion battle over expanded school vouchers intensifies as a group opposed to public funding for private and religious schools states its case.

DALLAS (AP) - American Airlines is rolling out a new look.

HOUSTON (AP) - A man accused of vandalizing a 1929 Pablo Picasso painting in Texas, in an act caught on cellphone video, has been ordered jailed on $500,000 bonds.

PLANO, Texas (AP) - Trustees of a wealthy Dallas-area school district have backed a proposal to hire armed private security guards to patrol all 71 campuses.

HOUSTON (AP) - The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has overturned a ruling that upheld a judge's instructions to jurors about to consider the role of a second inmate in a 2007 escape attempt that left a guard dead.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A top state business organization has presented a proposal on how it wants to see Texas cut taxes.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst is trumpeting legislation that he says will improve health care for the poor and disabled while fighting fraud. But he said expanding Medicaid to insure another 1.5 million people is off the table.

EL PASO, Texas (AP) - The White House has responded to a petition to allow Texas to secede by saying the Founding Fathers who created the Union "did not provide a right to walk away from it."

HOUSTON (AP) - A Houston-area woman has been charged with killing her 19-year-old son by shooting him in the head as he sat on a couch after they argued.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The lawsuit challenging how Texas public schools receive funding is entering a new phase focused on efficiency.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Education Agency says the state could violate federal rules if lawmakers pulled funding for standardized testing.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Oprah Winfrey is confirming that Lance Armstrong came clean to her about his use of performance-enhancing drugs during their 2 1/2 hour interview Monday. She says the cyclist was "forthcoming" as she asked him in detail about doping allegations that followed him throughout his seven Tour de France victories.

LEWISVILLE, TX - There was a report of a shooting inside the shopping mall.

DALLAS (AP) - The walls have started coming down at a Dallas apartment building where Lee Harvey Oswald lived a few months before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Local and international news crews are staking out positions in front of Lance Armstrong's lush, Spanish-style villa ahead of the cyclist's interview with Oprah Winfrey later Monday.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - The three victims of a package bomb that blew up at their South Texas home are in stable condition as investigators try to determine who left the explosives.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Lawmakers in the Texas House are debating new ground rules, with tea party activists arguing for more transparency.

The Sherman Police Department is investigating a deadly car fire reported early this morning on US Highway 82.

DENISON, TX - The family of the teenager found dead in Denison is asking for your help to give him a proper burial.