Posted: 7:01 AM A review finds dozens of tea party groups and other conservative groups subjected to improper scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service operate with small budgets and rarely displayed overt partisan activities.
Posted: 6:44 AM Houston police and members of the military plan to turn out in force at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport to welcome 300 wounded warriors arriving for a "Warrior Weekend."
Posted: 6:32 AM A breakthrough on a new Texas budget could be for real this time.
Posted: 6:15 AM The former chief of staff to Fort Worth Police Chief Jeff Halstead has been fired after he was accused of driving while intoxicated.
Posted: 6:05 AM An Army sergeant was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole for the 2009 killings of five fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq.
Updated: 9:16 AM The former mayor of a tiny West Texas town has pleaded guilty to stealing about $100,000 from the town treasury.
Posted: 4:27 AM Gov. Rick Perry is shrugging off suggestions by top Democrats that his office is derailing state budget talks by steering money away from public education.
Updated: 4:12 AM The House is debating a plan to dramatically expand the number of charter schools allowed to operate in Texas - a proposal that's cleared the Senate but could face a tougher road in the lower chamber.
Posted: 8:36 PM U.S. officials have identified the Fort Hood soldier accused of sexual assault, including possibly arranging for at least one woman to have sex for money.
Posted: 5:44 PM Gov. Rick Perry today released the following statement regarding the West investigation results:
Posted: 5:42 PM Captains, officers and students of the Texas Maritime Academy, part of Texas A&M University at Galveston, recently departed for the first of two training cruises in the Gulf of Mexico this summer.
Updated: 5:37 PM Authorities say investigators have completed their scene investigation but not ruled out criminal activity as the cause of a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant that killed at least 14 people and flattened part of a tiny Texas town.
Posted: 2:29 PM Gov. Rick Perry today released the following statement regarding yesterday’s storms in North Texas:
Updated: 1:26 PM The twister that ripped through the town of Granbury on Wednesday night killed at least six people and injured dozens of others. Here are the worst tornadoes ever to hit Texas, based on number of deaths and injuries.
Updated: 1:22 PM Retail gasoline prices in Texas have risen 3 cents this week to reach an average $3.41 per gallon.
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.
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.
