Posted: 05/18/2013 - The Texas Senate on Friday approved a bipartisan bill that aims to remove legal risks of saying "Merry Christmas" in Texas public schools.

Posted: 05/18/2013 - The Texas House has approved a dramatic overhaul of the state's troubled $3 billion cancer-fighting agency, including replacing its entire, 11-member board.

Posted: 05/18/2013 - Texas lawmakers are advancing a plan to create a residency training program for school teachers.

Posted: 05/18/2013 - School is expected to resume Monday in a North Texas community where a tornado damaged homes and cut power.

Updated: 05/18/2013 - Texas has become the fifth state to sue British oil company BP over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, seeking damages for the 2010 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Posted: 05/18/2013 - Military officials say three Fort Bliss soldiers and one from Fort Stewart in Georgia were killed in Afghanistan by an improvised explosive device.

Posted: 05/18/2013 - Police say an 83-year-old man has been taken into custody after his son and grandson were found shot to death in the North Texas home all three shared.

Posted: 05/18/2013 - Dallas police say a 1-year-old child left in a locked vehicle in an elementary school parking lot has died.

Posted: 05/18/2013 - Authorities say two tornadoes have struck near a small community in rural North Texas, destroying a house but causing no injuries.

Posted: 05/18/2013 - A Bastrop pastor has been found guilty of animal cruelty in the death of a cat he trapped in his neighborhood last year.