MELISSA, Texas (AP) - The former mayor of a North Texas town is scheduled to plead guilty today to soliciting a bribe from a real estate broker on a land deal.

HOUSTON (AP) - A grand jury will consider the fatal shooting of a robbery suspect by an armored car guard outside a Houston theater after a co-worker was wounded.

GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) - Police say a North Texas man has been charged with failing to help two teenage friends who died after alleged drug and alcohol overdoses at his home.

HOUSTON (AP) - A female Texas death row inmate facing execution this month for the fatal stabbing and bludgeoning of a 71-year-old woman has lost an appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The state comptroller estimates that Texas will generate $92.6 billion in general revenue in 2014-2015, a major jump in tax collection from the last two-year budget cycle.

HOUSTON (AP) - Texas transportation officials have overruled a district office and restored use of electronic freeway signs for public safety traffic updates near firearms-related events.

DALLAS (AP) - A co-conspirator of a bank robber serving life in prison for killing a North Texas armored car guard has pleaded guilty in a string of 2009 holdups.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A third caregiver has been charged following the death of a 5-year-old South Texas boy who showed signs of neglect and abuse.

TYLER, Texas (AP) - A 50-year-old man on death row for the slaying of an East Texas man during a home break-in more than 21 years ago has been set to die April 9.

EL PASO, Texas (AP) - An SUV driver from the Houston area involved in a West Texas traffic accident that killed a police officer has also died.

HOUSTON (AP) - Investigators in the Houston area have identified a suspect in gunfire at an after-hours club that led to one man dead and four others hurt.

DALLAS (AP) - Nearly two dozen Texas school districts are seeking exemption from some state and federal testing requirements as they push to design new student evaluation systems.

HEARNE, Texas (AP) - A Central Texas police officer has been put on paid administrative leave following a fatal shooting at an apartment complex.

HOUSTON (AP) - A Mexican Mafia member sent to death row for strangling a woman in San Antonio 15 years ago for failing to pay the gang a 10 percent tax on illegal drug sales has lost a federal court appeal.

HOUSTON (AP) - Houston police say at least three people have been wounded in a drive-by shooting outside a house during a party.

DALLAS (AP) - Dallas police say the number of murders citywide rose almost 13 percent last year and nearly half of the 152 killings were related to gangs or drugs.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Experts say technology and an expanding DNA database have helped solve more crimes in Texas.

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) - The Navy has added $1.4 billion to a Bell-Boeing contract to build 22 V-22 Ospreys in Texas.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Police say a man and his juvenile son have died after their motorcycle hit a parked car in a Central Texas neighborhood.

HOUSTON (AP) - Houston police say a domestic dispute has left two women shot to death in an apparent murder and then a suicide at their house.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A memorial service will be held for a San Antonio police officer who died nearly three weeks after being hurt in a traffic accident while on duty.

DALLAS (AP) - Police say a Dallas firefighter and a pickup driver were injured when the driver hit a ladder truck as officials worked the scene of an earlier accident on Central Expressway.

TYLER, Texas (AP) - Tyler police say an officer shot to death a man who pointed a handgun at him as police responded to a call about numerous gunshots at a home.

BIG SPRING, Texas (AP) - A historic hotel in the West Texas town of Big Spring has been restored after being closed for almost four decades.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - There should be no shortage of school finance fights in the Texas Legislature this session.