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.

WEST, Texas (AP) - The first day of school is underway in West after a plant explosion that killed at least 14 people and left hundreds of people without homes.

DALLAS (AP) - The driver involved in a fatal Texas bus crash has told authorities he may have blacked out in the moments before the bus careened off the roadway and struck a concrete barrier.

UNDATED (AP) - Texas-based Dell says buyout specialist Blackstone Group is ending a bid to buy the slumping computer maker, less than a month after pitching a plan to trump an offer from the company's CEO and founder.

WACO, Texas (AP) - Some who survived the fiery end to the 51-day standoff at the Branch Davidians' Central Texas compound are to gather for a memorial service on the 20th anniversary of the fire.

GEORGETOWN, Texas (AP) - The prosecutor who sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of the man's wife is set to face an inquiry into his handling of the case.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Sheriff's deputies have taken Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg into custody after a judge sentenced her to 45 days in jail for DWI.

WEST, Texas (AP) - Federal investigators say they will begin inspecting the site of the devastating fertilizer plant explosion in an effort to collect debris and other evidence that may point to a cause of the fatal blast.

HOUSTON (AP) - Texas is no stranger to fertilizer-caused explosions.

WEST, Texas (AP) - The pope is using his Twitter account to ask followers to pray for victims of a fatal fertilizer plant explosion in a small Texas town.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Senate has voted to drastically cut back the hours of training needed to get s state concealed handgun license.

HOUSTON (AP) - Two people have been fatally shot and a third critically wounded at a Houston apartment where an infant was found unharmed crying under a bed.

WEST, Texas (AP) - Rescue workers searched the smoldering ruins of a fertilizer plant Thursday for survivors of a monstrous explosion that leveled homes and businesses in every direction across the Texas prairie. As many as 15 people were feared dead and more than 160 others injured.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Senate has voted to have the state pay for some teachers to get special training to respond to school shooting situations.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A North Texas man convicted in the fatal shooting of a teenager during a carjacking outside a nightclub 12 years ago has been executed.

DALLAS (AP) - A 74-year-old passenger who broke several ribs in a deadly bus crash near Dallas has sued the company operating the vehicle.

FARMERS BRANCH, Texas (AP) - A Dallas fire department spokesman says all tests are negative on a suspicious package sent to Sen. John Cornyn's suburban Dallas office.

KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) - North Texas authorities have arrested the wife of a former justice of the peace who was charged with making a terroristic threat in connection with the killings of a district attorney and his wife.

McALLEN, Texas (AP) - A draft environmental study of a proposal to build a rocket launch site in South Texas says it could affect several endangered species, but any "significant impacts" to wildlife could be avoided if steps are taken.

EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A man who claimed self-defense has been sentenced to 99 years in prison for the fatal shooting of two West Texas soldiers in an argument over a woman.