Posted: 1:54 PM DALLAS (AP) - The Dallas Museum of Art says it will return to offering free general admission and in addition will launch a free membership program.

Posted: 1:53 PM HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry has announced a new workforce training initiative that aims to fast-track education for people with skills and real-world experience but without formal certification.

Posted: 1:50 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Locator chips embedded in student IDs by a Texas school district has set off a debate over privacy and religion after one student refused to participate.

Posted: 3:47 PM WELLS, Texas (AP) - Officials say the pilot of a twin-engine plane has died in a fiery East Texas crash during a flight from Houston to Oklahoma.

Posted: 1:56 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Alamo's longtime caretakers say they've found closure in a scathing report from the Texas attorney general's office that blasted the group as dysfunctional and financially inept.

Posted: 1:55 PM EL PASO, Texas (AP) - An ailing 26-year-old California sea lion at a West Texas zoo has died.

Posted: 11:07 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry has appointed his chief of staff to the Texas Supreme Court.

Posted: 4:19 PM TYLER, Texas (AP) - Gunfire at a motorcycle clubhouse in East Texas has left one man dead, another critically hurt and police trying to determine who started shooting.

Posted: 4:18 PM DALLAS (AP) - Dallas police say four people have died in gunfire at two motels in attacks that do not appear to be related.

Posted: 10:41 AM BRYAN, Texas (AP) - A convicted killer already serving a life prison term for murder is facing a possible death sentence for an escape attempt five years ago that left a Texas corrections officer dead.

Posted: 10:38 AM SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A San Antonio school district's website has been hacked to protest its policy requiring students to wear microchip-embedded cards tracking their every move.

Posted: 10:37 AM SAN ANTONIO (AP) - San Antonio officials plan to honor a police officer who was injured while rescuing a driver from a burning car.

Posted: 3:31 PM SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The caretakers of the Alamo have rejected as inaccurate a state report critical of how they manage the shrine in San Antonio.

Posted: 3:28 PM RAYMONDVILLE, Texas (AP) - Investigators say four people have been killed and four hurt in an SUV rollover in South Texas.

Posted: 3:26 PM MIDLAND, Texas (AP) - A long-haul trucker from West Texas has pleaded guilty in a 2011 multistate drug-transporting ring with ties to Mexico.

Updated: 3:15 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas troopers will be out in force during the Thanksgiving holiday period looking for drunken drivers and other highway safety violators.

Posted: 10:58 AM This Thanksgiving holiday some local churchs and businesses will be providing free meal for those in need.

Posted: 4:20 PM LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - The driver of a parade float that collided with a Union Pacific train in West Texas, killing four veterans, has been identified.

Posted: 4:10 PM DALLAS (AP) - Dallas police and schools officials are dedicating a historical marker to the police officer shot by Lee Harvey Oswald shortly after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Posted: 4:04 PM A committee of high-profile Dallas business and community leaders, in partnership with City Hall, is planning a ceremony at Dealey Plaza next year to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Posted: 3:56 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A coalition of people who depend on Medicaid for their health care and jobs called on the Texas Legislature Tuesday to fully fund the program when they meet next year.

Posted: 2:11 PM MANSFIELD, Texas (AP) - North Texas has had another minor earthquake.

Posted: 1:50 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The state judge hearing arguments in the Texas school finance trial denied a motion to allow districts to resubmit evidence after errors were uncovered.

Updated: 1:47 PM BRUCEVILLE-EDDY, Texas (AP) - At least one person is dead after a chain collision of 13 vehicles on a busy Central Texas interstate, including four tractor-trailer rigs.

Posted: 4:20 PM 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.