Updated: 10:45 AM The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is encouraging residents to beat the summer rush at driver license offices across the state by renewing their license or identification card early or online.

Updated: 11:08 AM Temple police have confirmed one student was shot Tuesday morning at Temple High School and the school is on lockdown.

Updated: 7:05 AM The former director of a West Texas nonprofit organization has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for conspiring to embezzle federal funds.

Posted: 6:10 AM Gov. Rick Perry is backing $1.6 billion in business tax cuts, even though he concedes it may mean tapping Texas' once-untouchable cash reserves.

Updated: 6:06 AM A Dallas man suspected of fatally shooting his pregnant girlfriend and later shooting an officer during a high-speed chase is being held on a capital murder charge.

Posted: 8:19 PM Authorities investigating the murders of a Texas prosecutor and his wife believe a former county official sent a threatening email to law enforcement officers one day after the killings.

Posted: 2:03 PM He's at it again - in Chicago, this time.

Updated: 6:54 PM An 84-year-old woman jailed on a theft charge is now accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill one Houston-area prosecutor and maim his boss.

Posted: 11:42 AM Emergency officials say a firefighter has suffered a minor injury battling a blaze at a Central Texas power plant.

Posted: 11:23 AM An East Texas pilot has survived the fiery crash of his ultralight plane after the low-flying aircraft clipped some power lines.

Posted: 11:19 AM College Station police had to break a window to get an alleged drunk driver out from behind the wheel early Sunday morning.

Posted: 11:07 AM Human remains were discovered Sunday in a grassy area along the Trinity River levee near downtown Dallas.

Updated: 12:27 PM A traffic stop in Montgomery County lead police to find over 400 grams of Crack Cocaine.

Posted: 10:37 AM Authorities have found the bodies of a woman and a man in a Northeast Texas house and police are investigating if the deaths are a murder and a suicide.

Posted: 10:25 AM Prosecutors are set to open their case against leaders of a violent cartel accused of buying racehorses to hide illegal drug profits.

Posted: 10:12 AM The Texas Ethics Commission is up for review and some possible changes at the state Legislature.

Updated: 9:56 AM Republican mega-donor Bob Perry never cared for the spotlight. But writing big checks and financing one of the most famous television ads ever in a presidential campaign made the Texas millionaire famous nonetheless.

Posted: 9:43 AM Investigators are trying to figure out why a Houston-area man was lying on a road when he was run over by a sheriff's vehicle and later died.

Posted: 9:39 AM Authorities investigating the deaths of a North Texas district attorney and his wife appear to have narrowed their focus on a former justice of the peace prosecuted last year by the official for theft.

Updated: 9:05 AM Former President George W. Bush has become a grandfather.

Posted: 8:29 AM A medical examiner says a man who died in the infield during a NASCAR race at Texas Motor Speedway shot himself in the head.

Updated: 8:07 AM The Rev. John Anthony Salazar served 11 years as a Roman Catholic priest in Texas despite a conviction for child molestation in Los Angeles.

Updated: 6:57 AM The 10-story El Paso City Hall building was demolished Sunday morning to make room for a Triple-A baseball stadium.

Posted: 6:32 AM San Antonio police say four people were killed and another injured when an 18-wheeler going the wrong way struck a sport utility vehicle head-on.

Posted: 9:07 PM Federal and local authorities are executing a search warrant at a North Texas home as part of an investigation into the slayings of the local district attorney and his wife.