Updated: 7:50 AM - Bryan Shaw is the chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and has had several occasions to butt heads with the current nominee to head the EPA.
Updated: 7:17 AM - The State Fire Marshal's Office says a federal safety panel's investigators had access to the site of a Texas fertilizer plant blast that killed 15 people and injured about 200 others.
Updated: 05/22/2013 - Texas Task Force 1 has been in Moore, Oklahoma since Tuesday morning helping with search and recovery operations after a deadly tornado ripped through the area on Monday.
Updated: 7:43 AM - Computers, Chat rooms, social networking sites --- these gadgets and platforms are part of our high-tech world -- yet they're the same tools criminals are using to abuse children.
Updated: 7:21 AM - The parents of an 18-month-old and a 4-year-old who were sickened by E. Coli from a local restaurant weren't happy with a Brazos County Health Department news conference on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the doctor who ate a taco from the restaurant from which the bacteria was traced, issued an apology.
Updated: 7:46 AM - 23-year-old Amanda Hoffman was critically injured after a car crash Friday morning on her way to a club waterski tournament.
Updated: 05/22/2013 - Several families in College Station are learning an important lesson the hard way after burglars broke into their cars and stole their belongings in broad daylight.
Updated: 05/22/2013 - Due to a reduction in pressure due to a line break, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has required the Hearne water system to notify some of its customers of the need to boil their water prior to consumption.
Posted: 05/23/2013 - A teenager was shot and killed at a Walker County residence over the weekend in what is being investigated as an accidental shooting.
Updated: 3:01 AM - The Gulf Coast leg of the Texas Law Enforcement Torch Run passed through Bryan Wednesday in an effort to promote the Special Olympics program.
Posted: 6:52 AM - A solar-powered plane has landed in Texas, completing the second leg of a trip across the United States.
Posted: 6:45 AM - A possible watershed date has arrived for the Boy Scouts of America.
Updated: 5:23 AM - The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen since 2009. The disclosure to Congress comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama in which he plans to pledge more transparency to Congress in his counterterrorism policy.
Posted: 05/22/2013 - The extent of damage from Monday's tornado in Oklahoma is becoming clearer today.
Updated: 05/22/2013 - A man shot dead by an FBI agent overnight in Orlando knew Boston bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and was followed by the FBI for days, a friend of the Florida man told CNN affiliate Central Florida News 13 on Wednesday.
Updated: 05/22/2013 - The Boy Scouts of America will convene a two-day meeting of 1,400 local leaders to consider changing its long-standing ban on allowing openly gay boys to don the Boy Scouts uniform.
Posted: 05/22/2013 - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is talking with officials in Oman about their plans to buy a $2.1 billion air defense system from American manufacturer Raytheon.
Updated: 05/22/2013 - Hospital officials say they've treated more than 200 patients, including dozens of children, since a tornado hit an Oklahoma City suburb.
Posted: 05/22/2013 - A Coast Guard rescue swimmer whose disappearance led to a massive search in Hawaii pleaded guilty to desertion Tuesday, saying he left work one day, decided never to return and spent the next three months camping in the mountains. A military judge sentenced him to more than six months confinement and a bad conduct discharge.
Posted: 05/21/2013 - A precise count is difficult to come by, but officials at four hospitals in the Oklahoma City area say they've more than 200 hundred patients, including dozens of children, since Monday's deadly tornado struck.
Posted: 6:59 AM - Jurors will begin deliberating whether a North Texas man should die for drowning his two young sons.
Posted: 6:52 AM - A solar-powered plane has landed in Texas, completing the second leg of a trip across the United States.
Posted: 6:45 AM - A possible watershed date has arrived for the Boy Scouts of America.
Posted: 6:24 AM - A former South Texas district attorney charged with helping a crooked judge is testifying in his own defense.
Updated: 7:17 AM - The State Fire Marshal's Office says a federal safety panel's investigators had access to the site of a Texas fertilizer plant blast that killed 15 people and injured about 200 others.
Posted: 5:55 AM - Veteran Democrat Rep. Craig Eiland of Galveston says he won't seek re-election.
Posted: 5:43 AM - The Texas Legislature has approved a bill allowing publishers to mitigate libel lawsuits if the party affected by a mistake doesn't request a correction or retraction.
Posted: 5:35 AM - The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood attack wants to represent himself at his upcoming murder trial, which means he could question the nearly three dozen soldiers he's accused of wounding in the shooting rampage.
Posted: 5:22 AM - A spending bill crucial to a complex Texas budget deal contains an extra $200 million to public schools as pledged by Senate negotiators.
Posted: 05/22/2013 - A judge in West Texas has ordered that a mental health evaluation be done for a former paramedic who's accused of possessing bomb-making material.
