LIVINGSTON, Texas (AP) - Condemned Texas inmate Carroll Parr says he's OK with capital punishment but doesn't believe he should be on death row and face lethal injection this week.

MOUNT ENTERPRISE, Texas (AP) - Three Stephen F. Austin State University students have been killed and another hurt in a two-vehicle wreck in East Texas.

MOUNT PLEASANT, Texas (AP) - An Amber Alert for a 14-year-old East Texas girl allegedly abducted by her ex-boyfriend has been canceled after she was found and rescued.

HOUSTON (AP) - Houston police say it appears a man was bent on suicide, or what's known as suicide by cop, when he opened fire inside a busy Houston airport terminal.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Both sides have rested in the Texas trial of five men charged with using a horse racing and breeding operation to launder drug money for a Mexican cartel.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The incoming president of the National Rifle Association is warning its members they are fighting a "culture war" that goes beyond gun rights.

WEST, Texas (AP) - Nearly $300,000 has been donated so far to a fund for residents of a Central Texas town decimated by a fertilizer plant explosion.

TEXAS -- A statewide effort to raise money to help victims of the West, Texas plant explosion yields over $49,000.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A female training instructor at a South Texas Air Force base has pleaded guilty to having sex with a male student in 2011.

DALLAS (AP) - A man arrested at a Dallas Love Field hangar after allegedly driving more than 100 mph on an airport taxiway now faces a federal unauthorized entry charge.

BELTON, Texas (AP) - A former soldier at Fort Hood has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his ex-girlfriend with a machete in an attack that occurred with the woman's 6-year-old son nearby.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - North Texas prosecutors say a man who's admitted to sexually abusing more than 30 boys and acts of bestiality involving animals has been sentenced to life in prison.

BEDFORD, Texas (AP) - A suspect in a North Texas double slaying has been caught in Oklahoma and charged with killing his ex-girlfriend and her 8-year-old son.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Employers would be fined for stealing wages from workers under a bill advancing in the Texas Legislature.

DALLAS (AP) - A Dallas man linked to the computer hacking group Anonymous has new attorneys familiar with high-profile national cases.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The House has approved reducing by $800 million the amount of special dedication funds lawmakers can use to balance the budget.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - State emergency officials say the West Fertilizer plant where an explosion killed 14 people this month was under no obligation to have an evacuation plan.

DALLAS (AP) - The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum is set to open to the public following a brief ceremony.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas college students who are licensed to carry concealed handguns would be allowed to keep their guns locked in their cars in campus parking lots under a bill advancing in the Legislature.

NEW BOSTON, Texas (AP) - An East Texas police chief who's been with the force more than 40 years has lost his job in a city council no-confidence vote.

CALDWELL, Texas (AP) - A former convict has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his girlfriend in a crime that Central Texas prosecutors say also included the rape of the woman's granddaughter.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Attorney General Greg Abbott hasn't said for sure if he'll run for governor.

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - A Houston man has been convicted of murder in the shooting of a 79-year-old woman outside a Texas courthouse.

WEST, Texas (AP) - The mayor of a Texas town devastated in a deadly fertilizer plant explosion says he expects the community to rebuild and he'll do the same.

ALLEN, Texas (AP) - Police say a Dallas-area man free on bond after being charged with killing his wife has died after apparently jumping from a highway overpass.