Posted: 3:44 PM Sentencing has been delayed for an AWOL soldier convicted of planning to blow up a restaurant full of Fort Hood troops.

Updated: 3:24 PM AUSTIN—Texas highways are safer now thanks to hundreds of projects completed in the last few years to add shoulders, width on more than 1,000 miles of rural, two-lane highways.

Updated: 11:44 AM A state audit indicates traffic fatalities in Texas have declined nearly 15 percent since 2006.

Updated: 5:13 AM An AWOL soldier convicted of planning a "massive attack" on a restaurant full of Fort Hood soldiers as part of his religious mission is expected to be sentenced Thursday in Texas federal court.

Updated: 5:13 AM A military judge was to decide if a terrorism expert will testify during the trial of the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage.

Posted: 10:57 PM The president of Susan G. Komen for the Cure is resigning and founder Nancy Brinker is moving away from day-to-day management as fallout from the foundation's brief decision to end Planned Parenthood funding reaches its highest ranks.

Updated: 4:28 PM Nearly half of Texas public and charter schools failed to meet federal accountability standards based on the No Child Left Behind Law.

Updated: 6:53 AM Country singer Randy Travis has been charged with driving while intoxicated.

Posted: 11:19 AM Texas U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz will be among the "headliners" addressing the Republican National Convention in Tampa.

Posted: 10:39 AM Dallas police say a 16-year-old girl who was in her room has been shot after someone outside her home opened fire on the residence.

Posted: 9:41 AM Houston police have shot and killed a man who allegedly fired into his estranged wife's office then tried to enter the building.

Posted: 8:40 AM WARING, Texas (AP) - The eagle has landed back with some Central Texas firefighters.

Updated: 5:19 PM Officials say two helicopter pilots have escaped injury in an emergency landing in a Central Texas field that left the aircraft on its side.

Posted: 3:36 PM A man who faked being a Texas law officer and demanded free sex from a prostitute has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Posted: 3:07 PM A North Texas man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for a 2010 crime spree that left a deliveryman dead.

Updated: 9:50 AM Leaders of the most populous county in Texas will hold a hurricane preparedness exercise.

Updated: 7:18 AM Authorities say a retaining wall collapse in East Texas has left two construction workers dead and another hurt.

Updated: 11:13 AM A judge has ruled that tourism businesses and others can sue a Texas city over its ban of ban beer cans and other disposable containers on the Guadalupe and Comal rivers.

Updated: 7:23 AM The University of Texas has filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court defending its use of race as a factor in admissions.

Posted: 11:14 AM Attorneys for a convicted killer facing execution want the U.S. Supreme Court to stop this week's scheduled punishment.

Updated: 6:47 PM After serving the city for 60 years, the 1952 Mack is showing its age but getting rid of the classic fire engine isn't an option.

Posted: 5:38 PM An elderly man has been reported as Houston's first of the year from the West Nile virus.

Posted: 2:46 PM Texas' on-time high school graduation rate has reached an all-time high, increasing 1.6 percent to 85.9 percent for the Class of 2011.

Updated: 5:17 PM A 23-year-old man will spend the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty to capital murder for the fatal shootings of his parents and brother in their Southeast Texas home in March.

Posted: 6:04 AM The Texas comptroller's office is giving budget leaders a rundown of the state's financial picture just months before what will likely be another lean legislative session.