Posted: 12:33 PM HOUSTON (AP) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates the economic impact of protecting Central Texas habitats of four salamander species will be about $29 million over 23 years.

Posted: 11:48 AM ATLANTA (AP) - New government figures show that flu cases seem to be leveling off nationwide. Flu activity is declining in most regions although still rising in the West.

Updated: 11:53 AM The white two-story home with stately pillars overlooking a North Texas pasture where longhorns roam is instantly recognizable: This is the power seat of television's famous Ewing family.

Posted: 11:38 AM SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A former Texas co-owner of a development company has been sentenced to 2½ years in prison for submitting nearly $1.3 million in fake invoices for Iraq reconstruction.

Updated: 12:28 PM Texas has another minor earthquake, nobody hurt

Updated: 3:00 PM A 60-year-old Spanish teacher in South Texas has been charged with having an improper relationship with an 18-year-old female student.

Posted: 11:19 AM A North Texas jury has sentenced a 27-year-old man to 55 years in prison for the scalding death of his young daughter.

Updated: 3:08 PM GANADO, Texas -- The small town of Ganado is one of the first school districts in southeast Texas that will allow teachers to carry guns. Louise ISD has approved a similar measure.

Updated: 6:45 PM A Houston mother is both relieved and furious now that evidence shows her son was not the gunman in Tuesday’s Lone Star College shooting, after all.

Updated: 11:30 AM The suspected gunman in the Lone Star College's North Harris campus shooting was arrested in Plano overnight by the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force.

Posted: 2:46 PM Authorities say a shooting at a Houston-area community college that left three people wounded erupted after two men bumped into each other.

Posted: 2:37 PM The new judge in the Fort Hood shooting case will decide next week whether to spare Maj. Nidal Hasan the death penalty and let him plead guilty.

Posted: 2:33 PM Retail gasoline prices across Texas are down a penny this week.

Posted: 1:40 PM Gregg Michael Scott, 52, a Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender, is now in custody after being arrested Tuesday in San Antonio by the U.S. Marshals Service Lone Star Fugitive Task Force.

Updated: 2:04 PM HOUSTON -- The Montgomery County toddler who was viciously attacked by a family pet faces his second of many surgeries Thursday morning.

Updated: 2:04 PM HOUSTON – A 93-year-old war hero whose home was burglarized and trashed earlier this week got another surprise Wednesday.

Posted: 11:39 AM A lawsuit over the crash of a Union Pacific freight train into a parade float carrying military veterans is expanding.

Posted: 11:26 AM A South Texas man who had more than 12,000 child pornography images on his computers has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Posted: 11:19 AM A Dallas-area woman who needed more than 500 stitches after a 2011 beating and slashing attack says her now-former boyfriend first became violent in 2009.

Posted: 11:08 AM A human skull found by a deer hunter in some East Texas woods has been sent to a forensic lab in an effort to identify the person.

Posted: 10:35 AM A child psychiatrist fired from Austin State Hospital amid allegations he sexually abused boys getting treatment has been charged with public lewdness.

Posted: 10:28 AM A former Texas parole officer faces up to 20 years in prison for accepting bribes from a man she supervised and not reporting his alleged financial violations.

Updated: 9:59 AM After each redistricting election, Texas Senators draw lots to determine who will serve two- or four-year terms, since half of the Senate is elected every two years.

Updated: 10:45 PM The chunk of rock in space was officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union in Paris, France.

Updated: 10:49 PM Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp today announced plans for Texas A&M University to grow engineering enrollment to 25,000 students by 2025.