Local business gets creative on 12/12/12 with Toys for Tots
Posted: 8:39 AM DENISON, TX - A Denison business came up with a creative way to give to charity this 12/12/12.
Posted: 8:39 AM DENISON, TX - A Denison business came up with a creative way to give to charity this 12/12/12.
Posted: 3:39 PM SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Apparent power-hungry thieves have stolen more than 700 vehicle batteries from a South Texas business.
Posted: 3:37 PM SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A black former Texas Marine who served in World War II during a time of segregation has received the nation's highest civilian honor.
Posted: 3:35 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A top business organization is calling for dramatically rolling back Texas' new, tougher high school graduation standards amid outcry over the standardized test known as STAAR.
Posted: 3:33 PM EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Leaders of a West Texas school district where a scandal to improve test scores sent an ex-superintendent to prison have voted to fight state oversight.
Posted: 3:32 PM TOMBALL, Texas (AP) - Investigators say the driver of a car has died after the vehicle rear-ended a Houston-area school bus on its morning route.
Posted: 2:12 PM GRAYSON COUNTY, TX - On the fourth anniversary of the December 8, 2008, tornado in Grayson County, the Grayson County Office of Emergency Management announces the receipt of a grant award of $465,000 that will save lives and reduce injury during severe weather.
Posted: 2:03 PM HOUSTON (AP) - A Texas court has ordered TransCanada to temporarily halt work on a private property where it is constructing part of an oil pipeline designed to carry tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast.
Posted: 1:46 PM HOUSTON (AP) - State prison officials have begun transferring some inmates from two Texas Panhandle units to other penitentiaries due to a lack of corrections officers.
Posted: 1:40 PM McALLEN, Texas (AP) - A 14-year-old driver whose high-speed flight from authorities near the Texas-Mexico border ended with two Guatemalan immigrants being shot to death has been recaptured after he failed to appear in court.
Posted: 1:38 PM DALLAS (AP) - The Dallas Cowboys are standing behind Josh Brent after the defensive tackle was accused of driving drunk and causing a wreck that killed practice squad linebacker Jerry Brown.
Posted: 1:35 PM FRUITVALE, Texas (AP) - An East Texas mobile home fire blamed on a space heater has killed a woman and left two of her children and a firefighter hurt.
Updated: 6:04 PM SHERMAN,TX - Convicted quadruple murderer Lester Bower is one step closer to knowing whether or not he'll receive the death penalty.
Posted: 3:44 PM HOUSTON (AP) - A 10-story former downtown Houston hotel has been demolished to make way for new apartments.
Posted: 3:42 PM FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A North Texas man with a history of assault faces up to life in prison after being convicted of killing a woman who had let him stay with her.
Posted: 3:36 PM WASHINGTON (AP) - The former leader of a tea party group says the Republican Party and stupid statements by some candidates are to blame for GOP losses in last month's congressional elections.
Posted: 3:29 PM HOUSTON (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review the case of a San Antonio rapper sent to death row for slitting the throat of a recording engineer during a session 14 years ago.
Posted: 3:24 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - An expert is denying that Texas made its latest standardized test too difficult, saying such exams have always gotten harder but students still tend to improve their scores over time.
Updated: 8:25 AM HOUSTON (AP) - The agency that oversees most of the Texas power grid says future power projections have improved but the state could still struggle with peak demand - possibly even next summer.
Posted: 3:54 PM RICHMOND, Texas (AP) - A Houston-area man, his daughter and his son have been indicted over a credit union robbery by armed thieves in disguises.
Posted: 2:30 PM EL PASO, Texas (AP) - An ex-official at a West Texas school district where the state has taken more control amid a testing scandal is being fired after an audit showed possible cheating attempts at his new job.
Posted: 2:27 PM MCALLEN, Texas (AP) - A South Texas man has been convicted in a human smuggling case in which more than 30 suspected illegal immigrants were found in an apartment.
Posted: 2:25 PM CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - A South Texas jury has convicted a former police officer in the 2011 fatal shooting of his estranged common-law wife.
Posted: 2:23 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Department of Public Safety has reassigned about 15 crime lab workers to blood testing to help trim a backlog in drunken driving cases.
Posted: 4:25 PM ST. LOUIS (AP) - A new report shows that the nation's worst drought in decades has leveled off last week after worsening during the two previous weeks