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.

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - Defense lawyers in the capital murder trial of a man charged with a fatal shooting outside a Southeast Texas courthouse last year will begin their case next week.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - An ex-trainer at a South Texas military installation has been sentenced to five months in jail and booted from the service for using bleach to abuse recruits.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry revved up for a presidential bid in 2011 by showing the country who's boss in Texas. He pushed lawmakers to slash spending and tighten abortion restrictions and declared illegal immigration a state emergency.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - An $875 million spending bill that includes $500 million extra for public schools heads for a major vote in the Texas Legislature.

DALLAS (AP) - The dedication ceremony of George W. Bush's presidential center has ended after the nation's 43rd president gave a closing speech with tears welling in his eyes.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The state's consumer advocate has challenged State Farm Insurance Co.'s 20 percent rate hike for Texas homeowners as being too high.

WEST, Texas (AP) - On April 17, a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, leveled part of that small town located some 20 miles north of Waco. Most of the victims were first responders from fire departments in West and other nearby towns that were on the scene trying to control the fire that preceded the blast.

WACO, Texas (AP) - The town of West, Texas, is preparing to say goodbye to 14 people who were killed when a fertilizer plant exploded and leveled part of the town.

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has ordered that the U.S. flag at federal buildings and military facilities in Texas be flown at half-staff Thursday in memory of the victims who died in the fertilizer plant explosion last week in the town of West, Texas.

MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) - A North Texas chiropractor has been sentenced to sentences of 23 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of sexually abusing female patients.