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.

ABILENE, Texas (AP) - A West Texas man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for using Molotov cocktails to start a fire at the convenience store where his ex-wife worked then shooting her as she fled the flames.

TYLER, Texas (AP) - A 1941 Pearl Harbor victim's Purple Heart found along a California road has been returned to his East Texas family thanks to a teacher and his students.

HOUSTON (AP) - James Arnt Aune was regarded as a fine scholar, mentor and friend by students and his fellow professors at Texas A&M University, where he headed the school's Department of Communication.

HOUSTON (AP) - A federal jury has convicted two men who were part of a Houston-area bank robbery ring that involved a dozen other people.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - New tools for prosecutors in cases of sexual assault against children are advancing through the state Capitol.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Senate has approved new rules to help small brewers expand.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - State leaders will announce the launch of a $91 million vaccine manufacturing center at Texas A&M University that will create thousands of jobs while protecting the country against future biological threats and influenza pandemics.

DALLAS (AP) - Dallas Cowboys guard Josh Brent faces trial Sept. 23 on an intoxication manslaughter charge in a car wreck that killed a teammate.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Vietnam veterans have broken ground on a monument at the state Capitol.

KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) - A pending lawsuit could be the first test of a two-year-old Texas law that's supposed to limit suits against outdoor gun ranges.

MESQUITE, Texas (AP) - Police say a Dallas-area driver is in stable condition after another driver fired 15 rounds at his vehicle in a road rage incident, hitting him once in the head.

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) - Federal authorities say three men have been sentenced as part of a crackdown on a major drug distribution ring that operated in the Wichita Falls region and included at least 30 people.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is broadening its examination of affirmative action by adding a case about Michigan's effort to ban consideration of race in college admissions.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A coalition of 22 industry trade organizations says it strongly supports a bill to reduce standardized testing and increase emphasis on career training in Texas high schools.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Veterans Commission has provided $3 million in grants to more than two dozen organizations that help veterans readjust to civilian life.