Posted: 1:40 PM An expert says the poorest Texas school districts charge higher local property taxes and yet collect about a fourth less in revenue per student than the state's wealthiest districts.
Posted: 1:03 PM A Houston-area man who worked as a post-traumatic stress counselor for veterans has been sentenced to 30 days in prison for lying about his war medals.
Updated: 11:28 AM More than half of Texas ninth graders who last spring failed one or more of the state's new standardized tests skipped their chance to retest.
Posted: 9:34 AM An 81-year-old Houston-area man must serve 18 months in prison for stealing the Social Security benefits of his mother who died in 1984.
Posted: 4:24 PM Stamp honoring former first lady unveiled.
Posted: 10:37 PM The Boy Scouts of America has won a stay of a court order that would have required the organization to release more than two decades of files it kept on sexual abuse complaints.
Updated: 9:07 AM Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst says Texas should consider using $1 billion in the state's Rainy Day Fund to help pay for new reservoirs and other sources of drinkable water.
Posted: 11:39 PM Five Brazos county residents have been sentenced to jail time for their role in a 2009 gun store burglary.
Posted: 8:07 PM One person was killed and 11 others injured Wednesday in a wreck involving a shuttle bus in the Medical Center, officials said.
Posted: 8:03 PM A bartender in The Woodlands is facing a criminal charge for allegedly serving a customer who was already intoxicated.
Updated: 2:43 PM Volunteers wanting to help restore trees to a wildfire-ravaged state park in Central Texas will get the chance this weekend.
Updated: 8:38 AM A twin-engine Cessna 421 en route from West Houston Airport to Tulsa Riverside Airport in Oklahoma has crashed, and a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman says there appears to be no survivors.
Updated: 9:55 AM Johnny Manziel has essentially clinched the Heisman. The race for the 2012 Heisman Trophy has reached the moment of truth.
Updated: 10:06 PM A North Texas city has issued few tickets since it started enforcing its driving-while-texting ban a year ago.
Updated: 10:06 PM Governor Rick Perry has promised to fight tooth and nail against implementing the Affordable Care Act.
Updated: 10:08 PM A San Antonio school district's website has been hacked to protest its policy requiring students to wear microchip-embedded cards tracking their every move.
Updated: 10:18 PM A convicted killer already serving a life prison term for murder is facing a possible death sentence for an escape attempt five years ago that left a Texas corrections officer dead.
Posted: 11:57 PM A little boy and his mother have a lot to be thankful for after surviving the Thanksgiving day pile up on Interstate-10 near Beaumont.
Posted: 9:37 PM A Dallas trucker detained for seven months in Mexico on accusations that he had tried to smuggle assault rifle ammunition into the country has returned to the United States.
Posted: 10:13 AM Gov. Rick Perry has promised to fight tooth and nail against implementing the Affordable Care Act. But that doesn't mean big changes aren't coming to Texas health care, and it won't save lawmakers from facing tough spending decisions.
Updated: 5:39 PM The children of a Houston-area couple killed during Thursday's massive highway wreck on I-10 say this was the family's first Thanksgiving apart.
Updated: 7:20 AM Black Friday got off to a rowdy start at a San Antonio mall where police say one shopper pulled a gun on another who punched him in the face while they were waiting in line at a Sears store.
