Cruz Sworn in as Texas' First Hispanic US Senator
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.
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.
Posted: 3:11 PM Texas transportation officials, in the wake of last month's school shooting in Connecticut, are suspending the use of freeway message signs in Houston to provide directions to firearms-related events.
Updated: 1:12 PM Texas had the most expensive statewide average on record for gasoline in 2012, with the annual average price for a gallon of regular unleaded at $3.43.
Posted: 9:03 PM A Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputy shot at a man suspected of using a stolen credit card at the Woodlands Mall Wednesday afternoon.
Posted: 8:48 PM A North Texas anti-drunken driving enforcement officer is on restricted duty after his arrest on suspicion of drunken driving.
Posted: 8:35 PM Police say an American Airlines jet flying from Brazil to North Texas has diverted to Houston after a 25-year-old passenger died aboard the aircraft.
Updated: 5:57 PM A state law taking effect this year requires Texas public schools to instruct students on how to pay for higher education.
Posted: 5:45 PM Las Vegas police say a man wanted for murder in San Antonio, Texas, fatally shot himself a block east of the Las Vegas Strip.
Posted: 3:57 PM Experts say technology and an expanding DNA database have helped solve more crimes in Texas.
Posted: 4:05 AM A 22-year-old man has been arrested after barricading himself in a Corpus Christi apartment when police responding to reports of gunshots found an injured man in the parking lot.
Posted: 3:22 PM After massive cuts two years ago, the state legislature could face a surplus of money during the coming session.
Posted: 2:17 PM A Texas judge has ruled that the state may cut off funding to Planned Parenthood's family planning programs for poor women.
Posted: 11:03 AM There should be no shortage of school finance fights in the Texas Legislature this session.
Updated: 3:42 AM Three South Texas children have died after an early morning fire engulfed the Hargill home where they slept.
Posted: 12:16 PM State leaders like to brag about Texas' fast growing economy and low unemployment. But rarely do they mention the high poverty rate.
Posted: 6:42 PM A person with knowledge of the suspensions tells The Associated Press that Texas has sent home backup quarterback Case McCoy and injured linebacker Jordan Hicks from the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio for violating team rules.
Posted: 11:46 AM Two Houston teenagers have been charged with capital murder for fatally shooting a man over his new Air Jordan sneakers.
Posted: 11:37 AM The Dallas Morning News Texans of the Year are two men who devoted themselves to exposing and fighting injustice after being exonerated following years in prison for crimes they didn't commit.
Posted: 5:49 PM The U.S. Coast Guard has pulled 345 dead sharks from an illegal net found floating off the coast of South Texas.
Posted: 5:38 PM Texas is building specially designed "hurricane domes" along its Gulf Coast that will offer shelter during major storms and serve the rest of the time as gyms or community centers.
Posted: 3:17 PM Planned Parenthood has asked a Texas court to order the state to continue funding the organization's preventive health care for poor women.
Posted: 2:54 PM Helium is getting more expensive and more difficult to find.
