Posted: 1:29 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A top state business organization has presented a proposal on how it wants to see Texas cut taxes.

Posted: 1:27 PM 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.

Updated: 1:30 PM 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."

Posted: 1:20 PM 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.

Posted: 1:19 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The lawsuit challenging how Texas public schools receive funding is entering a new phase focused on efficiency.

Posted: 1:17 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Education Agency says the state could violate federal rules if lawmakers pulled funding for standardized testing.

Posted: 9:28 AM 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.

Posted: 4:58 PM LEWISVILLE, TX - There was a report of a shooting inside the shopping mall.

Posted: 1:34 PM 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.

Posted: 1:33 PM 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.

Posted: 1:32 PM 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.

Posted: 1:31 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Lawmakers in the Texas House are debating new ground rules, with tea party activists arguing for more transparency.

Updated: 1:10 PM The Sherman Police Department is investigating a deadly car fire reported early this morning on US Highway 82.

Updated: 4:41 PM DENISON, TX - The family of the teenager found dead in Denison is asking for your help to give him a proper burial.

Updated: 5:46 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has called for state-funded specialized firearms training for teachers and administrators to guard against school shootings.

Posted: 1:33 PM HALTOM CITY, Texas (AP) - A North Texas house fire has claimed the lives of a woman and three children.

Updated: 5:46 PM LEWISVILLE, Texas (AP) - An apparent house explosion in North Texas has destroyed the structure and scattered debris throughout the neighborhood.

Updated: 5:46 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A bill filed in the Texas House would prohibit state elected officials from "double-dipping," or officially retiring to collect their pensions while still drawing a salary.

Updated: 5:46 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Planned Parenthood is asking a judge to stop Texas from banning the group from providing state-funded health services to poor women.

Updated: 12:35 PM GAINESVILLE, TX - The Gainesville Police Department needs your help identifying a subject in an identity theft case.

Posted: 4:58 PM CELINA, TX - A Celina father has been arrested for testing the safety at his son's school by pretending to be a gunman.

Posted: 3:15 PM FORNEY, Texas (AP) - Authorities say 10 passengers suffered minor injuries in an accident involving a Greyhound bus and a car about 20 miles east of Dallas.

Posted: 3:13 PM HOUSTON (AP) - A Houston youth whose 2010 videotaped beating by police during a break-in investigation led to four officers fired has pleaded guilty to another burglary.

Posted: 3:10 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry concedes he can't get the nation's 49 other governors "to admit they'd want to be Texans."

Posted: 3:05 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A key state witness has admitted to making calculation errors when compiling a report she presented during Texas' school finance trial.