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: 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: 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.
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.
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.
Posted: 10:50 PM Asthma sufferers using steroid inhalers may not need to take those medications every day, according to a new study at UTMB. That could save Americans billions of dollars a year in drug expenses.
Posted: 7:03 PM A now-retired Army master sergeant and his wife have been convicted in a scheme of selling items obtained through illegal requisitions on behalf of his Fort Sam Houston unit.
Updated: 1:53 PM Texas has added 23 school districts for the first time to its list of those considered property-wealthy. It now has a record 374 districts that are required to give some of what they raise in local tax revenue to the state for distribution to poorer schools.
Posted: 6:57 AM BP PLC is selling some deep-water Gulf of Mexico oil and gas properties to Texas-based Plains Exploration & Production Co. for $5.55 billion.