Posted: 4:38 PM A grand jury has declined to indict the driver of a parade float involved in a train collision that killed four U.S. military veterans.

Updated: 7:57 AM 7-Eleven announced last week that it had purchased 143 retail sites from C. L. Thomas Inc. of Victoria, Texas.

Posted: 2:40 PM A key state witness has admitted to making calculation errors when compiling a report she presented during Texas' school finance trial.

Posted: 10:39 AM Gov. Rick Perry is making no promises that Texas will roll back any of the deep state spending cuts imposed during past economic doldrums - not even $5.4 billion sliced from public schools.

Updated: 10:54 PM The $14 million expansion will increase the creamery's storage capacity by 25 percent.

Posted: 3:16 PM House Speaker Joe Straus is starting his third term in the powerful post by calling public education the priority of the new Texas Legislature.

Updated: 2:06 PM Gov. Rick Perry says a booming Texas economy and rosier state revenue picture should allow lawmakers to cut taxes.

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.

Updated: 7:44 PM After slow to moderate rains fell across the Brazos Valley, the Flash Flood Watch has been allowed to expire for the Brazos Valley. Take a look back at the events that lead up to and that happened while the much needed rain fell across the region.

Updated: 8:14 PM 22-year-old Austin Hasten is accused of murdering his neighbor in Lubbock and was arrested for crashing his pickup into a Bryan apartment complex in December 2011.

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: 12:33 PM A new cast of lawmakers will gather in Austin this week for the 83rd Texas Legislature. But they bring with them a familiar agenda that includes taxes, education, health care, abortion, guns and even groping.

Updated: 10:46 PM Police in Lubbock have arrested a man with ties to Bryan/College Station and charged him with a murder Friday at an apartment that was on fire when authorities arrived.

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.