Posted: 8:56 AM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A contentious bill requiring politically active nonprofits to make the names of major donors public is on the verge of clearing the Texas Legislature.
Posted: 8:49 AM A 10-year-old boy and a 29-year-old woman are dead and the boy's father, the woman's boyfriend, is hospitalized in critical condition after a shooting at a Houston home.
Posted: 8:35 AM Susan Templer wasn't supposed to make it to 2012 or 2013.
Updated: 5:12 PM County star Willie Nelson has donated more than $120,000 for relief efforts following a deadly fertilizer plant explosion near his Central Texas hometown.
Posted: 7:24 AM Wildfires have broken out in a North Texas community devastated by 2011 blazes that destroyed about 200 homes during the drought.
Posted: 6:42 AM A Texas man has been sentenced in New Jersey to 71 months in prison for a stock fraud scheme involving computer hackers.
Posted: 8:07 PM The Texas House has approved requiring the disclosure of donors to some tax-exempt, politically active organizations.
Updated: 7:59 PM Hospitals nationwide could lose half a billion dollars in federal funding meant to offset the cost of covering the uninsured next year. The loss that will be especially felt in states where lawmakers have decided against expanding Medicaid coverage.
Posted: 7:57 PM The House has approved the Michael Morton Act, mandating that prosecutors share more case files with defense attorneys in an effort to prevent wrongful convictions.
Posted: 7:47 PM Hospitals nationwide could lose half a billion dollars in federal funding meant to offset the cost of covering the uninsured next year. The loss that will be especially felt in states where lawmakers have decided against expanding Medicaid coverage.
Posted: 5:18 PM On Friday May 10, 2013, officials from Woodforest Bank contacted the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office to report a theft from one of the branch banks.
Updated: 11:33 AM The Texas House has given initial approval to a bill that places new limits on the powers of university regents.
Posted: 3:03 PM An assistance center in a Central Texas community still recovering nearly a month after a deadly fertilizer plant explosion will resume regular hours.
Updated: 2:54 PM An East Texas teenager's prom has led to an unexpected evening with the sailor she plans to marry this fall.
Posted: 1:43 PM The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was sold to the American people on the ambitious premise that it would improve the health of millions of Americans and save tens of thousands of lives through preventative care.
Updated: 12:59 PM LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - Residents in parts of parched West Texas can now count on the flush of their toilet to help supply their drinking water.
Updated: 12:55 PM JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) - A military judge has found Army Sgt. John Russell guilty of premeditated murder in the 2009 killings of five fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq.
Posted: 11:47 AM A federal appeals court has refused to stop the scheduled execution this week of a man convicted of killing a Houston police officer 14 years ago this week.
Posted: 11:41 AM A 10-year-old boy has died after being run over while trying to catch the school bus in North Texas.
Posted: 11:00 AM A 20-year-old Fort Worth man who pleaded guilty to an armed robbery spree in 2011 is headed to prison with nine life sentences.
Posted: 10:00 AM A North Texas man has been arrested in an arson investigation that led police to several alleged pipe bombs at the home of his parents.
Posted: 9:43 AM Two detention officers at a South Texas jail have gotten into a fight that sent one to the hospital.
Posted: 9:37 AM Investigators say a man pulled from a burning house in Houston has died at a hospital.
Updated: 9:07 AM Prosecutors say a former South Texas district attorney and one-time candidate for Congress used the power of his position to profit.
