JACKSONVILLE, Texas (AP) - Investigators say a 60-year-old novice pilot has died after her small plane crashed into a hangar at an East Texas airport.

HOUSTON (AP) - Houston police say a driver has been killed after his car hit a firetruck that was returning to a station following a call.

HOUSTON (AP) - Authorities are trying to determine a motive in a Houston-area shooting that left a 63-year-old man dead and his son charged with murder.

DALLAS (AP) - Southwest Airlines says a flight from Kansas City to Dallas lost cabin pressure, forcing passengers and crew to wear oxygen masks until the plane had descended to a safe altitude.

IRVING, Texas (AP) - A travel group has predicted nearly 3.3 million Texans will hit the road for the Thanksgiving holiday period.

EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A West Texas pawnshop manager has been sentenced to four years in prison and must forfeit more than a million rounds in an ammunition smuggling case.

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) - Officials say four veterans were killed after a train slammed into a parade float stuck on a railroad crossing in West Texas.

IRVING, Texas (AP) - Hostess Brands says it is going out of business, closing plants that make Twinkies and Wonder Bread and laying off all of its 18,500 workers.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas' new education commissioner says that a revised system for rating schools should look at how well they close the achievement gap for minority students.

NEW YORK (AP) - Texas Instruments Inc. will eliminate about 1,700 jobs as it trims spending in its wireless business.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - A Houston man has been sentenced to more than six years in prison in a human smuggling case and wreck that left an illegal immigrant dead.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Legislative Budget Board has set a $77.9 billion cap on state spending in the 2014-15 budget year, a 10 percent increase.

HOUSTON (AP) - A U.S. Marine on overseas duty in Guam has been returned to Texas to face child sex abuse charges.

HOUSTON (AP) - Prosecutors say a Texas woman convicted of murder in a child's fire death at a home day care has a troubled past.

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) - Relatives of a Texas man fatally shot by police while allegedly driving toward officers during a downtown Amarillo brawl will get a $760,000 settlement.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Former Texas coach Darrell Royal was remembered Tuesday as a humble champion who built a powerhouse football program and a Longhorn brand known around the world.

HOUSTON (AP) - A grand jury in Houston has dismissed a misdemeanor resisting arrest charge against Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson after hearing from the four-time Pro Bowl running back and other witnesses.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - An expert on bilingual education has told Texas' sweeping school finance trial of the state's dramatic growth in students considered English-language learners.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst are teaming up for a rare joint press conference to discuss reforms for welfare and unemployment insurance.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - A Texas judge shown in a video beating his teenage daughter in 2004 returns to the bench this week after the Texas Supreme Court lifted his suspension.

DALLAS (AP) - Texas communities have celebrated veterans with parades, speeches and other patriotic salutes to those who've served their country.

DALLAS (AP) - A woman who threw her two children from an Interstate 30 overpass has been released from jail and will be placed in a boarding home.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Lance Armstrong has cut formal ties with his cancer-fighting charity to avoid further damage brought by doping charges and being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles.

LOCKHART, Texas (AP) - The free ride has ended for drivers on the Central Texas toll road with the nation's fastest speed limit at 85 mph.

HOUSTON (AP) - Houston police are questioning the grandson of an 89-year-old minister after the pastor and his daughter were found fatally beaten in a burning home.