Posted: 7:31 AM Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Friday that the conference will distribute $198 million to its 10 schools, a bump from $183 million the previous year.

Posted: 7:27 AM Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Incorporated says the number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased by nine this week to 1,771.

Updated: 7:24 AM The Houston Fire Department has revealed the identities of four firefighters who died fighting a motel fire.

Posted: 7:21 AM A federal judge in Dallas has approved an interim plan that distributes some $55 million in assets to bilked investors in a failed Ponzi scheme run by disgraced former Texas financier R. Allen Stanford.

Posted: 7:16 AM Houston Fire Chief Terry Garrison says the four firefighters who died fight a motel fire were looking for people they thought were still trapped in the burning building.

Updated: 2:11 PM The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) today hosted a hurricane emergency response exercise and resource showcase in Austin. Various resources, equipment, vehicles and numerous emergency responders from around the state convened at Austin Bergstrom International Airport to conduct interoperability and resource capability assessments, as well as logistical planning.

Posted: 1:24 PM Gov. Rick Perry says it's possible he'll add the hot-button issue of reshaping the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association to a special legislative session he's convened on redistricting.

Updated: 7:57 PM Four Houston firefighters died Friday while battling a 5-alarm blaze in a motel near the Southwest Freeway at Hillcroft.

Updated: 9:28 AM San Antonio officials are telling a community of 13 families in an area trailer park that they shouldn't stay in their homes because of hazardous conditions following heavy flooding that left the area submerged in more than 4 feet of water over the weekend.

Updated: 9:10 AM Austin police say an 18-year-old man has died after falling about 20 feet from a cliff in the Barton Creek greenbelt.

Posted: 5:12 AM Gov. Rick Perry plans to pay a visit to an emergency preparedness exercise at the Austin airport ahead of hurricane season.

Posted: 2:07 PM The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has added Raul Ambrosio Jimenez Jr., 45, to the Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list, and a cash reward up to $10,000 is now being offered for information leading to his capture.

Posted: 12:50 PM Minority advocates and lawmakers have blasted the process by which Texas is considering adopting new political maps, calling it discriminatory against Hispanics and African Americans.

Posted: 10:37 AM A jury has sentenced a Waco man convicted of stealing a rack of ribs to 50 years in prison.

Posted: 10:09 AM A former San Antonio police officer has been ordered to serve six months in jail after he was found wandering the streets near his wrecked city vehicle last year, disoriented and dressed in a T-shirt and boxer shorts.

Updated: 9:51 AM Houston will host an annual offshore technology conference where several governors will speak with energy business leaders.

Posted: 7:31 AM An East Texas man accused of kneeing his 2-year-old daughter in the stomach after she woke him up from a nap has pleaded guilty in her death and been sentenced to life in prison.

Updated: 9:18 AM Officials say a 2-year-old East Texas boy has died after shooting himself in the face.

Updated: 7:06 PM Three Houston residents have been arrested after sheriffs deputies say they stole a boat in Washington County.

Updated: 4:59 PM Redistricting lawyers from all sides — the state and the parties suing the state — told a federal court Wednesday that maps used to elect the Texas Senate in 2012 are acceptable to them and could be adopted without objection.

Updated: 1:39 PM Authorities say they've captured the man suspected of fatally shooting two half-brothers during a confrontation at a Dallas nightclub.

Posted: 1:15 PM Texas Comptroller Susan Combs has announced she is stepping down and will not seek election to any office in 2014.

Posted: 1:03 PM Work crews funded by a church are beginning an effort to knock down 50 unlivable homes in West, where a fertilizer plant explosion devastated the town.

Posted: 12:33 PM The capital murder trial has started in San Marcos for a man charged in the slaying of a 20-year-old woman who was raped, strangled and drowned in her bathtub in 1975 after going home for lunch.

Posted: 12:31 PM Two state facilities face June deadlines to reform hazardous conditions or lose millions of dollars in Medicaid money.