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.

WEST, Texas (AP) - Red Cross officials say nearly 300 families have visited a relief center since a deadly fertilizer plant explosion decimated a Central Texas town.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry is joking about the Legislature passing a Texas budget that's to his liking.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A plan to set up a $2 billion state water fund is coming up for a vote, and some conservative activists are opposing it.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas voters have the chance to decide bond packages, choose mayors and elect other community leaders as part of municipal and county elections.

DENISON, TX - An accident involving a motorcycle sent one man to the hospital Saturday evening.

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - A former court clerk in Texas who served time for assaulting his then-wife has been put on probation for threatening her with a gun.