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.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A North Texas police officer answering a robbery call at a fast-food restaurant fatally shot the suspect in an exchange of gunfire that left the officer hurt.

WEST, Texas (AP) - An insurance industry trade group estimates losses from a deadly fertilizer plant explosion in a tiny Texas town will likely exceed $100 million.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Turns out the survival of the Texas Lottery had better odds than its games. But just barely.

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is preparing for a trip to Texas, where he will attend Thursday's dedication of his predecessor's presidential library.

DALLAS (AP) - The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Texas has been handed over to U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) - A North Texas county where two prosecutors were fatally shot has a new district attorney as two suspects in the killings remain in custody.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas has unveiled a new school accountability rating system that emphasizes closing achievement gaps between low-income and minority students and higher-performing cohorts of young people.

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - The Texas Rangers are getting ready to deliver items the team has collected for residents of a Texas town recovering from a deadly blast at a fertilizer plant.

WEST, Texas (AP) - It started as just a fire. But 911 calls following the Texas fertilizer plant explosion show it took only minutes for dispatchers to become swamped in calls from terrified and hysterical residents.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oral arguments are scheduled before the U.S. Supreme Court on whether a North Texas water district can have access to water supplies in southeastern Oklahoma.

MCKINNEY, TX -- TAPS has been given a thumbs up to expand its operations in Collin County.

HOUSTON (AP) - Halliburton says it lost $18 million in the first quarter on litigation-related charges related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. But it made money if the unusual items are excluded, and beat Wall Street expectations.

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - A Houston man accused of killing a 79-year-old woman during a shooting spree outside a Southeast Texas courthouse has pleaded not guilty as his capital murder trial gets underway.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Youth offenders were put in solitary confinement in Texas juvenile centers more than 35,000 times last year, according to state records.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry says a deadly fertilizer plant explosion in Texas wouldn't have been prevented if the state earmarked more money for industry inspections.