Texas Senate leaders offer education reforms
Posted: 2:38 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Senate leaders have unveiled a package of education reforms that includes an effort to help some public school children attend private schools.
Posted: 2:38 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Senate leaders have unveiled a package of education reforms that includes an effort to help some public school children attend private schools.
Posted: 1:36 PM TYLER, Texas (AP) - The owner of an East Texas methadone clinic has pleaded guilty to trying to have a competitor's business torched and then seeking to have a co-defendant killed.
Posted: 1:34 PM DALLAS (AP) - Two women have sued the Texas Department of Public Safety over a body cavity search by a female trooper captured by patrol car video along a Dallas-area highway.
Posted: 1:31 PM BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - The founder of a Texas cargo airline is set to be sentenced on federal child pornography charges.
Updated: 2:39 PM HOUSTON (AP) - A Texas landowner and TransCanada Corp. are taking their argument over whether tar sands are crude oil before a judge.
Updated: 1:28 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - TEKsystems Global Services plans to open an information technology center in suburban Dallas with 500 jobs.
Posted: 2:02 PM EL PASO, Texas (AP) - An embattled West Texas school board is about to decide the futures of two administrators amid a testing scandal.
Posted: 2:00 PM DALLAS (AP) - A North Texas man has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison in a nearly $1 million investment scam involving trailer hitches.
Posted: 1:59 PM HOUSTON (AP) - A Houston-area man has been charged with pretending to be an FBI or CIA agent in an effort get personal information from people and a traffic ticket dismissed.
Posted: 1:56 PM FULSHEAR, Texas (AP) - Police say a rancher checking his property near Houston has found the burned body of an unidentified woman.
Updated: 1:57 PM GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - A Southeast Texas man has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison in a child pornography investigation sparked by a police officer in Germany.
Updated: 4:14 PM WASHINGTON D.C. - The Senate has passed the North Texas Zebra Mussel Act.
Updated: 8:58 AM GRAYSON COUNTY, TX -- Dozens of Grayson County residents will be better protected if a severe storm or tornado hits, thanks to a recent federal grant.
Updated: 9:44 AM DENISON, TX - Denison city officials made some funding decisions on its downtown streetscape project.
Posted: 2:15 PM SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The family of a 15-year-old student fighting the use of tracking badges in her San Antonio high school is asking a federal court to keep her on campus.
Posted: 1:56 PM HOUSTON (AP) - Houston police say four young men have been killed in a pickup truck rollover that left a fellow passenger critically injured.
Posted: 1:48 PM SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Authorities say a San Antonio restaurant worker apparently upset when his girlfriend left him shot a random patron outside a theater before being wounded by an officer.
Posted: 1:46 PM DALLAS (AP) - Dallas police have identified two men who were found shot to death inside a residence in an apparent double slaying.
Posted: 3:04 PM WACO, Texas (AP) - A state district judge in Waco is helping a 13-year-old sexual abuse victim gain an immigrant visa after the local district attorney refused.
Posted: 3:00 PM DALLAS (AP) - Southwest Airlines doesn't charge customers to change their flight plans after buying a ticket. But soon they'll pay a fee for not canceling a ticket before the flight.
Posted: 2:57 PM CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - An appeals court has upheld a Corpus Christi man's capital murder conviction for the death of his girlfriend's toddler son.
Posted: 2:50 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The federal National Cancer Institute says it's taking a fresh look at a troubled $3 billion cancer-fighting effort already being scrutinized by prosecutors and lawmakers in Texas.
Posted: 2:47 PM WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood's office says he's approved a $120 million loan to fund construction of new light rail leading to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
Posted: 3:00 PM WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) - A North Texas driver has been sentenced to three years in prison over a 2010 alcohol-related wreck that killed her passenger brother.
Posted: 2:26 PM NACOGDOCHES, Texas (AP) - An East Texas judge is to hear arguments from the Keystone XL oil pipeline developer to lift a temporary halt on pipeline construction on a private property.
