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.
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.
Updated: 10:24 PM Gas prices drop 21 cents over past 2 weeks.
Updated: 5:54 PM One of Texas' most-conservative state senators has asked for an attorney general's opinion on whether local governments can grant marriage benefits to same-sex partners.
Posted: 6:32 PM Dereon Kelley has been arrested and charged for a felony violation of using the Internet to convey a false threat involving an explosive device in order to intimidate individuals at Texas State University. Kelly was also suspected of emailing a bomb threat to Texas A&M.
Updated: 7:13 PM Bombs, leaking barrels of mustard gas, and containers without any markings are just a few of the things found.
Posted: 12:42 PM A contractor at a San Antonio Army post has pleaded guilty to soliciting the murder of her estranged husband.
Updated: 10:34 AM Texans don't trust government very much — especially the federal government, according to the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll conducted this month. Their least favorite branch of the federal government? Congress, by a wide margin.
Posted: 1:21 PM An expert witness says the poorest school districts in Texas tax at a rate that is 7.8 percent higher than the state's wealthiest districts but receive 35 percent less in per student funding.
Posted: 1:22 PM Gas prices are sharply lower in Texas, and analysts say the drop is due in part to falling demand because so many vehicles and airplanes on the East Coast were idled by Superstorm Sandy.
Posted: 11:02 PM Fifth-grader Edgar Erazo was more excited than usual about going to school Wednesday because he was dressed as a zombie for Halloween.
Updated: 8:50 PM Convicted killer Donnie Lee Roberts has been executed for the 2003 slaying of his girlfriend at her East Texas home.
Updated: 3:16 PM The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the convictions of two men condemned for the deaths of law enforcement officers.
Posted: 1:21 PM Several Texas school board members have testified about how differences in property values lead it unequal taxation and funding for public schools.
Posted: 10:53 PM Chaos and confusion are words Houston firefighters used to describe the scene of the day care fire that killed four toddlers and injured three others.
