DALLAS (AP) - The state's largest municipal rail system has extended train service to another Dallas suburb and added a bus connection to a major North Texas airport.

DALLAS (AP) - A former Dallas police officer who led the city's Crime Stoppers program has been sentenced to just under four years in prison for her admitted role in running a rewards scam.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - An expert says the poorest Texas school districts charge higher local property taxes and yet collect about a fourth less in revenue per student than the state's wealthiest districts.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst is ready to tap the state's Rainy Day Fund, a surprise suggestion considering most conservatives have fought to preserve it.

DALLAS (AP) - The Boy Scouts of America has won a stay of a court order that would have required the organization to release more than two decades of files it kept on sexual abuse complaints.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - American Airlines parent AMR Corp. and its creditors want six more weeks to complete a bankruptcy-restructuring plan.

HOUSTON (AP) - A dry winter has dropped chunks of Texas, including large metro areas such as Houston and Fort Worth, back into severe forms of drought, raising concerns for wildfires and the health of tree farms.

FRISCO, Texas (AP) - A Dallas-area battery recycling plant is closing in a $45 million deal to end disputes over lead emissions and ground contamination.

TYLER, Texas (AP) - A suspect in the fatal shooting of one man and the wounding of another at an East Texas motorcycle clubhouse has surrendered.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams has deferred the requirement for schools to count new end-of-course exams as 15 percent of a student's grade this school year.

HOUSTON (AP) - A Texas landowner is asking a court to overturn a permit granted by a state agency to a Canadian company to build a pipeline meant to eventually connect to a larger cross-border project.

DENISON, TX- A Denison company has been named the Texas Workforce Employer of the Year.

ORANGE, Texas (AP) - A Southeast Texas woman has been charged with the fatal shooting of her daughter's boyfriend during an argument that turned physical.

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) - Millionaire Texas artist Stanley Marsh 3 has been freed on $300,000 bond after being charged with 11 counts of molesting children.

HOUSTON (AP) - Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston for treatment of a lingering cough.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - No Powerball tickets purchased in Texas won the $587.5 million jackpot but four of those tickets are worth $1 million each.

GRAYSON CO, TX - Texas farmers and ranchers may soon have an insurance fund to protect their assets.

BRYAN, Texas (AP) - Closing arguments expected Monday for a second Texas inmate on trial over a guard's death during a 2007 escape attempt have been delayed again.

WASHINGTON (AP) - BP is being temporarily suspended from new contracts with the U.S. government, the Environmental Protection Agency says.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The state of Texas is trying to seize ownership of Warren Jeffs' polygamist ranch where prosecutors say the convicted sect leader and a dozen followers sexually assaulted children.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas and five other states have tied for America's third-best high school graduation rate under a new system that makes nationwide data easier to compare.

DALLAS (AP) - The Dallas Museum of Art says it will return to offering free general admission and in addition will launch a free membership program.

HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry has announced a new workforce training initiative that aims to fast-track education for people with skills and real-world experience but without formal certification.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Locator chips embedded in student IDs by a Texas school district has set off a debate over privacy and religion after one student refused to participate.

WELLS, Texas (AP) - Officials say the pilot of a twin-engine plane has died in a fiery East Texas crash during a flight from Houston to Oklahoma.