Posted: 8:08 AM An ex-municipal worker in South Texas has been sentenced to more than three years in prison over $68,000 in personal charges put on city credit cards.
Posted: 6:33 AM Criminal suspects suffering from mental illness could stay in jail until they are competent to stand trial under a proposal in the Texas Legislature.
Updated: 6:28 AM The House has soundly defeated a proposed referendum that would have let voters decide whether to limit statewide elected officials to two consecutive terms.
Posted: 6:23 AM A prison inmate has been indicted on a charge that he tried to hire someone to kill a North Texas federal judge.
Updated: 9:36 AM Gov. Rick Perry is holding a special ceremony to sign into law a proposal attempting to limit future wrongful convictions as the legislative session enters its final, frantic days.
Updated: 11:55 AM The winning numbers have been drawn for the $360 million Powerball jackpot.
Posted: 8:37 PM Fifteen people were injured, 10 of them hospitalized, when an escalator packed with people at San Antonio's convention center malfunctioned and jerked to a stop.
Updated: 8:29 PM A first responder who helped evacuate people ahead of a deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant has pleaded not guilty to a charge he possessed bomb-making materials.
Posted: 1:17 PM AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) encourages residents to report suspicious behaviors that might indicate criminal or terrorist activity to the department’s iWATCH website at www.iwatchtx.org.
Posted: 12:22 PM May 15, 1836. On this date, Francis Baily, an English astronomer, saw beads of sunlight shining along the edge of the moon’s silhouette during an eclipse of the sun.
Updated: 12:25 PM A first responder who helped evacuate victims of a deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant has been indicted on a federal firearm charge.
Posted: 11:49 AM The jury that convicted a Philadelphia abortion doctor of first-degree murder today will return later this month to decide whether he should face the death penalty.
Posted: 11:31 AM Police say a Central Texas man has drowned while trying to unload his boat at Lake Waco.
Posted: 9:00 AM AMARILLO, Texas (AP) - An American Airlines jet bound from Dallas-Fort Worth to New Mexico has made an emergency landing in Amarillo amid reports of smoke in the plane.
Posted: 8:59 AM CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - The Port of Corpus Christi has approved $15 million to help build a replacement for the Harbor Bridge.