AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Switchblade knives would become legal to carry under a proposal advancing in the Texas Capitol.

CYPRESS, Texas (AP) - A 20-year-old man from suburban Houston has been charged in a stabbing spree at a Texas community college that injured at least 14 people.

DALLAS (AP) - The time-honored skill of typing is certainly still helpful, but it's becoming less necessary. And that's raising the question: Does typing have a future?

CYPRESS, Texas (AP) - A Texas sheriff says the suspect in a stabbing attack at a Houston-area college is a man believed to be about 21-years-old who is enrolled at the school.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Authorities in Central Texas say they've charged a 47-year-old man in the killing of a woman whose partially burned body was discovered in 2011.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry says former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher "served with grace, dignity and an 'iron' will."

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas schools would continue to get reprieve from the state rating system under a proposal moving through the Legislature.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Prosecutors say a shuttering nonprofit that served a troubled cancer-fighting agency in Texas owes $100,000 more to the state than originally reported to lawmakers.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - University of Texas System regents have scheduled a Thursday meeting to discuss and possibly vote on whether to withhold email and other records from state lawmakers.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Republican lawmaker says the state needs a cybersecurity coordinator to lessen the state's vulnerability to hackers.

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) - A prosecutor expects to present the sex assault cases against eccentric millionaire artist Stanley Marsh 3 to a grand jury on Wednesday.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A San Antonio firefighter injured trying to rescue a person during a condo fire is in stable condition.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Texas state police crime lab scientist whose shoddy work may have tainted nearly 5,000 drug cases had been promoted despite a history of problems doing his work correctly and on time.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas House has voted overwhelming to keep public money in public education, a potential death blow to high-profile school voucher proposals.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas House has approved a new budget that would spend $93.5 billion in state revenues and rollback some of the deep cuts made by the Legislature two years ago.

COOPER, TX - Two Hopkins County jail escapees have been captured in Delta County, Texas.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Republican leaders are trumpeting more money for public education and mental health as the Texas House prepares to vote on a new state budget.

KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry has announced a $100,000 reward to help find the killers of a Dallas-area district attorney, his wife and an assistant prosecutor.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Senate has passed a bill requiring schools to place video cameras in special education classrooms to help protect students from abusive teachers.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Senate Education Committee is to discuss 16 bills involving everything from gun training for some teachers to allowing students to leave their home school districts for better-performing ones.

MESQUITE, Texas (AP) - The memorial has started for a slain Texas prosecutor and his wife.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas senators are considering a bill that would ban discrimination against homosexuals and transgender people in the workplace.

HOUSTON (AP) - A woman who wasn't licensed to drive has died and her 10-year-old son is critically injured after she commandeered a vehicle and drove it into the front of a furniture store.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - At least six freight cars have derailed in a Central Texas accident that delayed some morning commuters.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will attend the opening of former President George W. Bush's presidential library later this month in Dallas.