Updated: 10:16 AM A woman has been found guilty of murder in the death of one of four children killed in a fire at her home day care in Houston.

Posted: 10:37 AM The Texas Education Agency will ask the 2013 Legislature for $1 million to help investigate potential irregularities in student testing results.

Posted: 9:30 AM A San Antonio man is facing execution for the rape, robbery and smothering death of a 37-year-old woman abducted from a bus stop in 2001.

Posted: 3:43 PM Jurors are deliberating whether to convict a Houston woman of felony murder after a 2011 fire at her home day care killed four children who had been left alone.

Posted: 2:39 PM Texas lawmakers have begun filing their bills ahead of the 2013 legislative session, many of them familiar re-runs, while other set the tone for politics next year.

Posted: 5:09 PM An Iraqi official says Exxon Mobil expects to reach a deal by year's end to sell its stake in a major oil field in the country's south.

Posted: 11:04 PM The pilots union for American Airlines says it and the company have reached an agreement in principle for a new contract.

Posted: 4:43 PM The pilots union for American Airlines says it and the company have reached an agreement in principle for a new contract.

Posted: 11:55 AM George P. Bush's campaign paperwork in Texas is being cheered by Republicans eager for new Hispanic faces in the party. It's also fuelling speculation about what office the former president's nephew might seek.

Posted: 11:43 AM A federal judge in Texas says a JetBlue Airways pilot who disrupted a flight by running through the plane and yelling about terrorists can go free.

Posted: 9:56 AM Houston police are seeking a grandson of an 89-year-old minister after the pastor and his daughter were found beaten to death in a burning home.

Updated: 4:55 AM KILLEEN (November 9, 2012)--Two people are dead after an early morning car-train crash in Killeen.

Updated: 11:11 PM A man described as a fledgling serial killer by prosecutors has been executed in Texas.

Updated: 3:14 PM Texas District Judge Steve Yelenosky has issued an injunction that will keep Planned Parenthood in the Women's Health Program pending resolution of their lawsuit.

Posted: 11:42 AM A public memorial service will be held Tuesday in Austin for former Texas football coach Darrell Royal.

Posted: 11:26 AM Defense attorneys have rested their case in the trial of a woman facing a murder charge after a fire at her Houston home day care killed four children and injured three other kids.

Updated: 11:22 AM Retail gasoline prices across Texas continue to fall with a 7-cent drop this week.

Posted: 9:35 AM Condemned Texas prisoner Mario Swain is to die for the beating, stabbing and strangling of a woman during a break-in at her East Texas home a decade ago.

Updated: 8:59 AM Voters have given deceased state Sen. Mario Gallegos one last victory in Harris County.

Updated: 12:49 AM Republicans have lost their 102-member supermajority in the Texas House, opening the door for Democrats to slow or block the majority's conservative agenda.

Updated: 8:35 PM Mitt Romney has overwhelmingly defeated President Barack Obama to carry Republican-dominated Texas.

Updated: 1:31 PM Several people were injured in an explosion at a propane company just outside of Conroe Tuesday afternoon.

Updated: 9:33 PM Prosecutors have rested their case against a Houston woman charged with murder after a fire at her home day care killed four children and injured three others.

Updated: 9:41 PM On the third anniversary of the Fort Hood rampage, 148 victims and family members are suing the government and seeking compensation over the attack allegedly carried out by an Army psychiatrist who is awaiting trial.

Posted: 7:06 AM Houston police say a gunman has been shot and killed in a four-hour standoff that began with an argument about a dog.