Posted: 1:35 PM 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.
Posted: 1:31 PM 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.
Posted: 1:29 PM 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.
Posted: 1:06 PM 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.
Posted: 1:01 PM 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.
Posted: 1:28 PM 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.
Posted: 1:26 PM 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.
Posted: 1:22 PM 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.
Posted: 1:14 PM 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.
Updated: 11:06 AM 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.
Posted: 1:42 PM HOUSTON (AP) - Texas is no stranger to fertilizer-caused explosions.
Posted: 1:41 PM 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.
Posted: 1:38 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Senate has voted to drastically cut back the hours of training needed to get s state concealed handgun license.
Posted: 1:36 PM 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.
Updated: 11:11 AM 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.
Posted: 2:05 PM 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.
Posted: 1:59 PM 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.
Posted: 1:56 PM 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.
Updated: 2:51 PM 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.
Updated: 1:27 PM 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.
Posted: 2:22 PM 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.
Posted: 2:18 PM 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.
Posted: 2:17 PM DALLAS (AP) - Passengers have more room to roam at Dallas Love Field.
Posted: 2:15 PM TEMPLE, Texas (AP) - Police say a lockdown at a Central Texas high school has ended after a student shot himself with a handgun on campus.
Posted: 2:13 PM 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.
