AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas House has approved a public school pilot program allowing parents to purchase supplemental concussion insurance for boys who play football and girls who play soccer.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - State health officials have raised mercury concerns in advising some people not to eat or to limit consumption of certain fish caught off the Texas coast.

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - A Houston man convicted of fatally shooting a 79-year-old woman outside a Southeast Texas courthouse last year has been sentenced to death.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Six children are being treated for injuries after their school bus collided with another vehicle on a busy North Texas highway.

GREENVILLE, Texas (AP) - An uncle of an East Texas girl last seen alive getting off a school bus has been charged in her 2012 slaying.

DALLAS (AP) - Traffic is up but a key revenue measure is down at Southwest Airlines Co. - indicating that carriers are finding it harder to sell high-priced tickets.

HOUSTON (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry is welcoming President Barack Obama ahead of his visit to Austin this week.

IRVING, Texas (AP) - Trader Joe's has chosen a site in suburban Dallas for the specialty grocer's first distribution center in Texas.

HILLSBORO, Texas (AP) - A body found over the weekend in northern Hill County has been identified as a 23-year-old woman who had been missing for about a week.

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.