KILLEEN, Texas (AP) - A Central Texas middle school teacher has been put on paid leave after an 11-year-old student complained his mouth was taped shut.

TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) - Federal prosecutors in western Arkansas say a 62-year-old former youth baseball coach has pleaded guilty to one count of transporting a minor across state lines for sex.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - A campus-wide alert stopped down activity on the Texas A&M University campus for about an hour after an armed man was reported on campus.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - Texas A&M University officials are urging people on campus to resume normal activities, but remain cautious after they issued a campus-wide alert after an armed man reported on campus.

IRVING, Texas (AP) - Gas prices are sharply lower in Texas, and analysts say the drop is due in part to falling demand because so many vehicles and airplanes on the East Coast were idled by Superstorm Sandy.

TYLER, Texas (AP) - An East Texas man charged with killing his ex-wife and snatching their 4-year-old son has been arrested in Louisiana and the boy is safe.

SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP) - Investigators say a pilot has died in the crash of his twin-engine plane into a Central Texas field.

EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A British businessman is set to change his plea after being charged with trying to buy missile parts from undercover U.S. agents and illegally sell them to Iran.

HOUSTON (AP) - The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the convictions of two men condemned for the deaths of law enforcement officers.

TYLER, Texas (AP) - Police in East Texas say a man has shot his ex-wife to death and taken their young son.

MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) - A former North Texas police chief has been sentenced to three years in prison on multiple counts of molesting a child.

GEORGETOWN, Texas (AP) - A top state official says Planned Parenthood will remain in the Women's Health Program for now.

McALLEN, Texas (AP) - A Guatemalan diplomat says Texas law enforcement agents were close enough to a pickup truck to see there were people inside before one opened fire, killing two Guatemalan immigrants.

DALLAS (AP) - A judge has sentenced to 35 years in federal prison a man who admitted to being the "Handsome Guy Bandit" responsible for 11 North Texas bank holdups.

BRYAN, Texas (AP) - Police are investigating whether a man charged in a Texas A&M bomb threat knows a woman accused of a similar hoax at another university.

HOUSTON (AP) - State officials are advising Texas voters to make sure they'll be good to go at the polls if they used the increasingly popular method of registering while getting a driver's license.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - School Finance expert Lynn Moak says academic standards that continue to get tougher have more significantly reshaped Texas schools than reductions in funding.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A survey of 11 public school districts who teach a quarter of Texas children found that officials spend $227 million a year on disciplinary programs and school security.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Public Utility Commission will consider doubling the cap on wholesale electricity prices in hopes of convincing generators to build more power plants.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas is arguing that its schools may eventually face an impending crisis but that they're not there yet.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - An all-time record of 13.64 million Texans have registered to vote this year, and they will start casting early ballots Monday.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The native Texan who will moderate Monday's third presidential debate says viewers often pay too much attention to his role.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Rich schools, poor schools and charter schools are all part of the sweeping school finance lawsuit heading to trial Monday in Austin.

DALLAS (AP) - U.S. Senate candidates Ted Cruz and Paul Sadler are facing off in their final debate in Dallas.

Every year, the Texas Comptroller updates a list of names of people, business, and other entities for whom unclaimed property is being held by the state. Unclaimed property can be any financial asset that appears to have been abandoned by the owner for three years or more.