Texas Schools Running $1B Short, Expert Testifies
Updated: 9:14 AM Public Education in Texas is running $1 billion short, meaning officials will soon have to seek that much in supplemental appropriations from the state Legislature.
Updated: 9:14 AM Public Education in Texas is running $1 billion short, meaning officials will soon have to seek that much in supplemental appropriations from the state Legislature.
Posted: 7:34 AM A spokesman for former President George H.W. Bush says Bush's recovery from a bronchitis-related cough and subsequent complications is "continuing" and there's still no timetable for his release from a Houston hospital.
Posted: 4:47 PM A spokesman for former President George H.W. Bush says Bush's recovery from a bronchitis-related cough and subsequent complications is "continuing" and there's still no timetable for his release from a Houston hospital.
Posted: 4:46 PM A microchip implant has helped a dog from Pennsylvania named Roxy get home after the missing animal was found 1,500 miles away in Houston.
Updated: 10:59 AM The state comptroller estimates that Texas will generate $101.4 billion in general revenue in 2014-2015, a major jump in tax collection from the last two-year budget cycle.
Updated: 6:48 PM Country musician Toby Keith will headline this year's Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
Updated: 9:20 AM The school finance trial is gearing up again after a holiday hiatus.
Posted: 12:14 PM University of Texas women's track coach Bev Kearney resigned Saturday and acknowledged in an interview with the Austin American-Statesman that she had an intimate relationship with an athlete in her program in 2002.
Updated: 3:50 PM Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel ran for two touchdowns, threw for two more and had a Cotton Bowl-record 516 total yards as 10th-ranked Texas A&M wrapped up its first SEC season with a 41-13 win over No. 12 Oklahoma on Friday night.
Updated: 9:54 AM With Cowboy's Stadium serving as the backdrop, Aggies came to Arlington, ready to cap off their first season in the SEC.
Posted: 3:28 PM State education officials have waived some federal academic accountability rules for a Central Texas school district where recovery continues from devastating 2011 wildfires.
Posted: 3:20 PM A 50-year-old man on death row for the slaying of an East Texas man during a home break-in more than 21 years ago has been set to die April 9.
Posted: 3:09 PM A South Texas soldier who pleaded guilty in a recruiting scam to get referral bonuses must serve 1½ years in prison and repay about $13,000.
Posted: 1:52 PM The Texas attorney general has reached a $36.3 million settlement with two pharmaceutical companies accused of Medicaid fraud.
Updated: 1:13 PM A monument to the half-million Texans who served in Vietnam is taking shape at a Central Texas foundry.
Updated: 12:41 PM A lot of Suddenlink Cable customers in Bryan-College Station have been wondering whether they would be able to watch Texas A&M take on Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl on Fox Television Friday night.
Updated: 11:13 PM Aggie fans, Alumni, and families have made there way to Dallas for the Cotton Bowl and with the team closing out its first season in the SEC fans are pumped about the bowl game.
Posted: 4:13 PM A husband and wife from Spring have been sentenced to federal prison after being convicted of defrauding the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.
Updated: 4:01 PM Nearly two dozen Texas school districts are seeking exemption from some state and federal testing requirements as they push to design new student evaluation systems.
Updated: 10:36 AM U.S. Sens. John Hoeven of North Dakota and John Cornyn of Texas have placed a friendly wager on the outcome of the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision title game between North Dakota State University and Sam Houston State.
Posted: 3:25 PM Tea party darling Ted Cruz has been sworn in as U.S. senator and says his first order of business will be introducing a bill he knows will never pass.
