Posted: 9:02 PM Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin says recent mass shootings have prompted leaders in Washington, D.C., to exploit tragedy in order to limit the freedoms of law-abiding people.
Posted: 3:27 PM The stock market is surging past new milestones after the government reported a big pickup in hiring at U.S. employers.
Posted: 3:18 PM Texas Gov. Rick Perry says passing new gun control laws won't stop criminals and would only make law-abiding citizens easy targets by depriving them of weapons to defend themselves.
Posted: 1:54 PM Kindergarten registration for the College Station Independent School District begins Friday, May 3. Registration will continue through mid-June and resume in the immediate weeks prior to school starting.
Updated: 2:45 PM The site of the fall State Fair of Texas in Dallas will be getting more use with Summer Adventures in Fair Park.
Posted: 1:14 PM A federal judge has declined to throw out a 2010 environmental lawsuit against ExxonMobil Corp. over emissions from its Baytown oil refinery.
Posted: 1:05 PM Houston police say it appears a man was bent on suicide, or what's known as suicide by cop, when he opened fire inside a busy Houston airport terminal.
Posted: 12:57 PM The incoming president of the National Rifle Association is warning its members they are fighting a "culture war" that goes beyond gun rights.
Posted: 12:54 PM The following is the Bryan Police Department’s Top Ten Most Wanted for May 2013.
Posted: 12:39 PM Noah Earl Allen Jr., 45, a Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender, is now in custody after being arrested on Wednesday in San Antonio. Allen has a violent criminal history and was wanted for failure to register as a sex offender.
Updated: 10:48 AM There are over 300 adult slow-pitch softball teams in town this weekend for the 28th Annual Budweiser Softball Festival.
Posted: 10:12 AM U.S. employers added 165,000 jobs in April, and hiring was much stronger in the previous two months than first thought. The gains trimmed the unemployment rate to a four-year low of 7.5 percent.
Updated: 10:49 AM A four-month investigation by federal and local law enforcement agencies in the Tyler area have resulted in charges against 21 people accused of credit fraud.
Updated: 8:05 AM The Navy on Thursday inaugurated its first squadron with both manned and unmanned aircraft amid debate over the military's burgeoning use of drones in warfare.
Posted: 6:41 AM A former polygamist leader sentenced last year to a decade in prison is to be released on parole next week.
Posted: 6:30 AM A former contractor at NASA's Langley Research Center has been ordered to leave the United States within 48 hours as part of a plea agreement.
Updated: 6:05 AM Stanley Marsh 3, an eccentric millionaire artist who faces criminal charges alleging he sexually abused six teens, has been sued by a man accusing him of molestation in 2008.
Updated: 10:53 PM Imagine hopping on your road bike with nothing but the clothes on your back and traveling 3,000 miles across the nation. Then imagine biking -- back. It's a journey that no man has ever conquered, but a local flight paramedic will soon begin his goal in just less than two months in the Tour Divide bicycle challenge.
Posted: 8:51 PM President Barack Obama says there's another reason it's important to overhaul the U.S. immigration system: It's the amount of business conducted between the United States and Mexico.
Updated: 10:53 PM A thunderstorm outbreak isn't something that typically goes unnoticed in a forecast. The big questions to meteorologists is normally "do these storms have the potential to become severe?" That is the question the Storm Prediction Center hopes to answer, hours before storms fire up.
