Texas House Mulls New District for Failing Schools
Posted: 6:28 AM The Texas House is considering a proposal that would create special districts operated by turnaround experts to improve struggling schools.
Posted: 6:28 AM The Texas House is considering a proposal that would create special districts operated by turnaround experts to improve struggling schools.
Posted: 5:50 AM The House has approved requiring any decision by a future Texas governor to expand Medicaid first be approved by the Legislature.
Posted: 4:43 AM An online registry of convicted sex offenders in Texas would no longer include employer information under a bill inching closer to Gov. Rick Perry's desk.
Posted: 4:37 AM A bill that would have dramatically changed the rules for a radioactive waste dump died in the Legislature because of a parliamentary error.
Posted: 4:23 AM A proposal to crack down on the slaughter of sharks for their fins has stalled in the last stages of the Texas Legislature.
Posted: 11:23 AM A classroom curriculum system used by hundreds of Texas school districts will stop offering lesson plans after some conservative groups claimed it was promoting anti-American values.
Posted: 9:58 AM Willie L. Sullivan, 57, a Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender, is now in custody after being arrested on Thursday in Dallas.
Updated: 7:52 AM A suspect in a Central Texas double slaying has died after apparently hanging himself in his jail cell.
Posted: 7:24 AM Two women playing video games at a North Texas convenience store and a worker have been burned after a suspect set one of those customers on fire.
Posted: 7:18 AM Just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, stands a dormitory-style shelter filled with people recently deported from the U.S. and other migrants waiting to cross the border.
Posted: 5:56 AM Hundreds of people are joining the parents of a 13-year-old Texas cheerleader to remember the teenager who disappeared in December 2010 and turned up dead last month.
Posted: 5:42 AM Houston police are looking for two or three unknown suspects after one person was killed and two others were wounded in a downtown gunfight.
Posted: 5:31 AM A 22-year-old man has been killed, and two teenagers are wounded after multiple shots were fired at a Houston-area house party.
Posted: 10:18 AM The Texas Senate on Friday approved a bipartisan bill that aims to remove legal risks of saying "Merry Christmas" in Texas public schools.
Posted: 10:17 AM 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: 10:14 AM Texas lawmakers are advancing a plan to create a residency training program for school teachers.
Posted: 10:11 AM School is expected to resume Monday in a North Texas community where a tornado damaged homes and cut power.
Updated: 11:03 PM 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: 10:01 AM Military officials say three Fort Bliss soldiers and one from Fort Stewart in Georgia were killed in Afghanistan by an improvised explosive device.
Posted: 9:55 AM 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: 9:47 AM Dallas police say a 1-year-old child left in a locked vehicle in an elementary school parking lot has died.
Posted: 9:44 AM Authorities say two tornadoes have struck near a small community in rural North Texas, destroying a house but causing no injuries.
Updated: 9:40 AM A Bastrop pastor has been found guilty of animal cruelty in the death of a cat he trapped in his neighborhood last year.
