Posted: 1:14 PM Retail gasoline prices across Texas and nationwide have slipped 2 cents this week.

Posted: 10:33 AM Sam Houston State University ranks 3rd in the state for graduates getting hired after getting a bachelor's degree according to the 2012 Texas Higher Education Almanac.

Updated: 2:02 PM HOUSTON — The space shuttle Endeavour took off atop a modified transport plane from a Houston airport Thursday, beginning its journey to retirement in California, where it will be put on permanent display in a museum.

Updated: 10:40 AM Investigators blame apparent engine failure for a Central Texas helicopter crash as the pilot was surveying cattle and fences.

Posted: 6:54 AM Two men are sought after an FBI agent's handgun and identification documents were stolen from her car at a Houston gas station.

Updated: 12:55 PM Hundreds of people cheered the space shuttle Endeavour Wednesday as it circled overhead and then landed in Houston, giving Space City a fleeting glimpse of the last retired shuttle many locals feel should have been permanently displayed there.

Updated: 10:54 AM The Supreme Court is allowing Texas to use congressional districts that were drawn by a lower federal court for the November election.

Posted: 9:51 PM The Montgomery County Attorney’s Office filed a petition Tuesday for a murder charge against Donald Collins, the man suspected of setting a Splendora boy on fire in 1998, which eventually led to the young man's death.

Posted: 6:54 PM The retired Space Shuttle Endeavour has been cleared to stopover in the Bayou City, NASA said Tuesday.

Posted: 5:19 PM A South Texas girl diagnosed as autistic allegedly has been denied use of her service dog at school.

Updated: 10:29 AM A West Texas museum has purchased two old mules and euthanized them for a farm display.

Posted: 9:58 AM Montgomery County now has a sixth human case of West Nile virus, an official confirmed Monday.

Posted: 10:58 PM An apparent case of road rage that turned fatal will be referred to a grand jury, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.

Posted: 10:47 PM The Air Force has chosen a woman to lead its basic training unit where dozens of female recruits have alleged they were sexually assaulted or harassed by male instructors in the past year.

Posted: 10:14 AM A Waller County man has become the fifth resident of the Houston metropolitan area to die of West Nile virus, bringing the virus death toll in Texas to at least 53 this year.

Posted: 3:59 AM Police say that two women left three children alone in an apartment with no electricity while they went to get something to eat.

Posted: 10:43 PM Gov. Rick Perry is slamming the U.S. Federal Reserve's plans to spend $40 billion a month to buy mortgage bonds for as long as it deems necessary to make home buying more affordable.

Updated: 6:38 PM A summer that saw slim amounts of rain has but the Brazos Valley back into a moderate drought.

Updated: 1:27 PM AUSTIN -- Police have confirmed a body found in South Texas is that of a woman who went missing from Austin over the weekend

Posted: 11:18 AM Another North Texan has died of West Nile virus, bringing the North Texas West Nile death toll to at least 27 and the Texas toll to at least 51.

Updated: 8:55 AM After a summer of just "abnormally dry" conditions, D1 - "Moderate Drought" officially returns to parts of the Brazos Valley.

Posted: 4:18 AM Top education leaders in the Texas Senate are examining ways to improve classroom learning, including extending school days and school years.

Posted: 6:07 PM Gov. Rick Perry is blaming the Obama administration for the death of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in an attack in the Libyan city of Benghazi.

Posted: 5:31 PM Texas Comptroller Susan Combs says the state collected $24.1 billion in sales tax revenue in the 2012 fiscal year, about $1.5 billion more than she predicted last December.

Updated: 1:09 PM Health officials say they're convinced this will be the worst year for West Nile virus deaths and severe illnesses since the disease hit America's shores in 1999.