Posted: 9:44 AM PARIS, TX - A car collided with a house Thursday morning in Paris after it was rear-ended by another vehicle.

Posted: 2:57 PM 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.

Posted: 2:54 PM 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.

Posted: 2:51 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers is promising to end the diversion of dedicated funds from their intended purposes.

Updated: 8:28 AM 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.

Posted: 1:54 PM 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.

Posted: 11:33 AM KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) - Authorities say an assistant district attorney has been shot and killed near the North Texas county courthouse where he worked.

Posted: 3:41 PM 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.

Posted: 1:30 PM 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.

Posted: 1:28 PM DALLAS (AP) - A Texas trooper faces dismissal amid the investigation of her videotaped body cavity search of two women along a Dallas-area highway.

Posted: 1:27 PM 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.

Posted: 1:23 PM 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.

Posted: 1:18 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A top Texas senator says the state must change how it pays for health and human services.

Posted: 11:40 AM 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.

Posted: 1:23 PM 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.

Posted: 1:22 PM VAN, Texas (AP) - Authorities say two people are injured, one critically, after an oil storage tank exploded at a facility in East Texas.

Posted: 1:21 PM 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.

Posted: 1:19 PM 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.

Posted: 1:15 PM DALLAS (AP) - A man accused of pointing a green laser beam at a police helicopter flying during an investigation was scheduled to appear in federal court in Dallas on Tuesday.

Posted: 4:56 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas' high child poverty rate is beginning to make demands on the state's budget, and experts warn the state needs to spend more on education or the state's economy could slow.

Updated: 5:23 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas lawmakers want to hear from experts and the public on ideas for improving school safety in the wake of last month's shootings at a Connecticut elementary school.

Posted: 1:27 PM HOUSTON (AP) - Two police officers have been charged with accepting bribes and allowing cocaine to be smuggled and distributed in the Houston area.

Posted: 1:24 PM SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Two instructors at a South Texas base that provides basic training for the Air Force face separate court-martials on charges arising from a sex scandal.

Posted: 1:22 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas lawmakers want to hear from experts and the public on ideas for improving school safety in the wake of last month's shootings at a Connecticut elementary school.

Posted: 1:21 PM HOUSTON (AP) - Prosecutors have dropped assault charges against a man who was among three people wounded in a shooting at a Houston-area college.