Updated: 12:18 PM Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a note claiming responsibility for the April 13 attack on the Boston Marathon, reports CBS News senior correspondent John Miller.

Posted: 10:25 AM The College Station High School culinary team recently earned four first-place awards en route to winning the overall Culinary Arts Career Conference at the Palmer Events Center in Austin.

Posted: 10:02 AM A Walker County man is in jail after a lengthy drug investigation that pulled more than 9-thousand dollars of drugs off the street.

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.

Updated: 8:07 AM There has been a lot of talk during the current session of the Texas Legislature about building water reservoirs. In fact, there are 30 sites that are being proposed as possibilities.

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.

Updated: 8:30 PM Forecasters say the tornado that claimed six lives and destroyed dozens of homes in North Texas is believed to have had winds up to 200 mph.

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.

Updated: 11:01 PM The grocery store has been closed since Monday after inspectors found a can of commercial pesticide inside.

Updated: 9:01 AM Anderson-Shiro Consolidated ISD will be getting their very own football stadium thanks to a $4.7 million school bond.

Updated: 9:41 AM That rousing festival of good music, good food, chili cookoffs, and beer in Snook, called Chilifest, celebrated another successful year of giving back to the community.

Updated: 11:12 PM The numbers are in for this year's Drug Take Back Day in Robertson County and the amount of pills dropped off is shocking officials.

Updated: 7:07 PM Several Texas wines now featured on Amazon's Wine Shop.

Updated: 7:44 AM AUSTIN – A Texas teen bagged a record 800-pound alligator during his first public gator hunt with his dad. It’s the biggest gator ever certified in Texas, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

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.

Updated: 11:05 PM Mike Collins, formerly assistant head coach and defensive coordinator at McNeese State, is joining the Sam Houston State football staff Bearkat director of athletics Bobby Williams and head coach Willie Fritz have announced.