Posted: 1:56 PM A demographics expert has testified about the Texas booming Hispanic population at a trial about how the state funds public education.

Posted: 10:05 AM Election officials in the county where Fort Hood is headquartered say they're worried the Army is giving soldiers incomplete instructions for voting by mail.

Posted: 9:43 AM It's been 21 years since a 26-year-old suburban Dallas woman was stabbed and strangled at her apartment.

Updated: 5:12 AM Prosecutors and defense attorneys are preparing for the first trial stemming from a fire at a Houston home day care center that killed four children and injured three others.

Updated: 10:57 PM The capital murder trial of a 23-year-old Waco man accused in the shooting deaths of two people has started, with family members of the victims and defendant scuffling in the courthouse hallway and again outside.

Updated: 12:36 PM The State Fair of Texas - marked this year by the loss of the towering, cowboy-hat-wearing Big Tex in a fire - came close to surpassing the all-time high spent in previous years on food and amusement rides.

Posted: 11:02 AM Attorneys for hundreds of Texas school districts are telling a judge that state funding for public education is "hopelessly broken."

Updated: 10:57 PM The Texas unemployment rate has fallen sharply to 6.8 percent in September, down from 7.1 percent in the largest one-month drop in nearly 30 years.

Updated: 11:04 PM The ideological divide that has marked the Texas State Board of Education reached a fevered pitch three years ago when an intense fight over how to teach evolution put the state in the national spotlight.

Updated: 10:38 AM The Texas unemployment rate has fallen sharply to 6.8 percent in September, down from 7.1 percent in the largest one-month drop in nearly 30 years.

Updated: 7:19 PM U.S. Senate candidates Ted Cruz and Paul Sadler are facing off in their final debate in Dallas.

Updated: 11:01 PM The U.S. Supreme Court has stopped the execution of a 33-year-old Texas prisoner for gunning down an off-duty Houston police sergeant 14 years ago.

Updated: 2:04 PM A judge says an East Texas school district policy barring cheerleaders from quoting biblical scripture on banners at high school football games appears to violate their free speech rights.

Updated: 5:37 PM Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against a Houston woman accused of killing a mother and abducting her newborn son.

Posted: 10:57 PM The balance in the state's Rainy Day Fund is climbing to $8.1 billion.

Posted: 9:03 AM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Lance Armstrong is stepping down as chairman of his Livestrong cancer-fighting charity to it can focus on its mission instead of its founder's problems.

Posted: 5:03 PM State Sen. Mario Gallegos Jr., a long serving Texas lawmaker, has died in a Houston hospital from liver disease. He was 62.

Posted: 3:46 PM Federal health officials say a Dallas-based meat distributor is recalling about 8,200 pounds of beef and pork products because they weren't inspected and were improperly labeled.

Posted: 6:54 AM Hundreds of landowners along the U.S. border with Mexico have been seeking fair prices for property that was condemned to make way for a towering security fence.

Posted: 6:09 AM Ted Cruz has gone from underdog insurgent to prohibitive favorite in Texas' U.S. Senate race.

Posted: 1:15 AM The CEO of American Eagle says he expects that the regional affiliate of American Airlines will still be sold or spun off as a separate company after American emerges from bankruptcy protection.

Updated: 8:45 AM With a Hemi engine under the hood and a jet engine pushing the rest, this car is an incredibly hot, hot rod.

Updated: 1:46 PM A Dallas woman has been sentenced to 99 years in prison for beating her toddler and gluing the child's hands to a wall.

Posted: 11:08 AM Thousands of new signs are going up to remind drivers in Texas of "Left Lane for Passing Only" laws on highways with 75 mph or higher speed limits.

Updated: 10:00 PM An Army appeals court on Thursday questioned whether a military judge exceeded his authority in ordering the suspect in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, to remove his beard or be forcibly shaved.