HOUSTON (AP) - Relatives and hometown supporters of boxing's first black heavyweight champion are turning to YouTube to convince the president to posthumously pardon him of a 1913 conviction for accompanying a white woman across state lines.
TEXAS - Tuesday TxDOT is kicking off their annual Don't mess with Texas, anti-litter campaign.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service has launched a water education network as a one-stop online source on quality, conservation and management.
KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) - A slain Texas prosecutor and his wife will be remembered at a public memorial Thursday in suburban Dallas.
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - Jury selection has started in Galveston in the capital murder trial of a southeast Texas man charged with killing a 79-year-old woman during a shooting spree last year outside the Jefferson County courthouse.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - An annual assessment of threats posed to Texas by gangs has found a different violent group leads the list.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The state's top education official says he will direct Texas to rate schools and school districts based on letter grades A through F starting next year.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas (AP) - An inmate awaiting trial on a capital murder charge in a 2011 slaying and another prisoner have broken out of an East Texas jail.
HOUSTON (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review the case of a Texas death row inmate who's set to die next week for an East Texas slaying more than two decades ago.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas lawmakers are rushing to plug holes in the mental health care system.
KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) - The mayor of the city where a north Texas prosecutor and his wife were found killed in their house says the attack does not appear to have been random.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - State officials say the Texas unemployment rate rose slightly in February to 6.4 percent but add that leading industries continue to show growth.
CONROE, Texas (AP) - Three Houston men have been charged with stealing an ambulance and trying to sell the emergency vehicle for scrap metal recycling.
TYLER, Texas (AP) - An East Texas police officer has been charged with using his law enforcement position to acquire hydrocodone by fraud.
DALLAS (AP) - A Dallas-area man has been sentenced to life in prison for the fatal shooting of his pregnant girlfriend and the death of their unborn child.
DALLAS (AP) - Dallas County's top prosecutor is pushing for a stay of execution for a woman convicted of killing a retired professor in North Texas.
DALLAS (AP) - The Dallas Museum of Art has been given a $17 million gift to expand its collection of European art before 1700, with a focus on the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Propane tanks have been found inside a Central Texas apartment that exploded and burned two occupants in what police call a drug-related blast.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Department of Transportation says it will pay to keep air traffic control towers open at 13 small airports when those facilities lose money next month.
HOUSTON (AP) - Nearly all of Texas is in drought, threatening severe water restrictions in some parts of the state and another record-setting dry spell if spring rains don't materialize.
HOUSTON (AP) - The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has rejected an appeal from an auto mechanic sent to death row for being the middleman in a murder-for-hire plot that left a Houston-area police officer's wife fatally shot nearly two decades ago.
SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) - A jury is deliberating the fate of a 58-year-old man accused of killing an Austin woman whose husband was wrongfully convicted of her slaying and spent nearly 25 years in prison before being exonerated.
