Posted: 11:51 AM A man condemned for the slaying of his ex-girlfriend's mother at her home in Austin six years ago has been found dead in his death row cell.

Updated: 3:38 PM The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is warning property owners it may have to curtail water rights if a drought that has plagued the state for the past year persists.

Posted: 3:31 PM Next Tuesday, July 31, ESPN is asking for extras to come to Kyle Field around 7:00 p.m. to help shoot a commercial.

Updated: 12:09 PM Daniel Pineda, Jr., a man listed on the state's Top 10 Most Wanted list, has reportedly been apprehended without incident after a stand-off with law enforcement officials at a home on North Sims Avenue in Bryan.

Posted: 4:49 AM A government safety panel says BP focused too much on the little details of personal worker safety instead of big systemic hazards that led to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Posted: 4:46 AM Two people are dead and two others are hospitalized after 17-vehicle chain collision on a West Texas interstate blamed on a dust storm.

Posted: 8:53 PM A former East Texas bank president faces up to 30 years in federal prison for using customer funds to pay his home contractor.

Posted: 8:29 PM Celebrated car designer Carroll Shelby's children and wife have resolved a dispute over how to bury him, two and a half months after his death.

Updated: 11:01 AM Yes, there is a full fledged castle in the middle of the Lone Star State and when you arrive, owner Mike Newman makes sure you get a welcome worthy of a king.

Updated: 11:19 AM Texas Department of Public Safety officials say they have fired 37 employees since 2010 for various offenses, although a civil rights advocate calls the number "shockingly low."

Updated: 1:30 PM A consulate official says a Mexican citizen was among 14 killed when a pickup packed with illegal immigrants ran off a rural South Texas highway and crashed into trees.

Posted: 3:56 PM (City of Hearne Press Release) Union Pacific (UP) is talking with local landowners and officials about its hope to build one of the biggest railroad classification yards in Texas between Hearne and Mumford.

Posted: 12:39 PM A 24-year-old suburban Houston man has been charged for his alleged role in a 2008 car crash in Japan that killed his teenage passenger.

Posted: 10:05 AM The Texas unemployment rate has risen slightly to 7 percent in June but remains well below the 8.2 percent national jobless rate.

Posted: 3:28 PM The Texas sales tax holiday is Aug. 17-19 and shoppers gearing up for the new school year will save money on a variety of back-to-school items.

Posted: 11:47 AM A travel group says retail gasoline prices have jumped 6 cents this week across Texas.

Posted: 10:26 AM Houston police say the death of a 71-year-old man who allegedly was shot by his brother-in-law will go to a grand jury.

Posted: 6:54 AM Investigators say a woman and her 7-year-old daughter have died in a Houston-area house fire that left another family member hurt.

Posted: 5:00 AM The Texas comptroller's office says it now expects the state to collect at least $5 billion in unanticipated revenue during the present two-year budget cycle.

Posted: 7:10 PM Texas has executed its first prisoner under a lethal injection procedure that uses one drug instead of three.

Updated: 8:35 PM Over the past decade the store has turned into a very successful restaurant thanks to a simple meaty method of business.

Updated: 4:50 PM A 16-year-old girl who told investigators two men broke into their home and killed her mother has now been charged in the deadly attack of a Houston area woman.

Posted: 4:22 PM Condemned prisoner Yokamon Hearn is headed to the Texas death chamber after having his appeals rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Updated: 4:55 PM Gov. Rick Perry and First Lady Anita Perry say the Texas Governor's Mansion is fully restored.

Updated: 10:58 AM The younger brother of Sam Houston State University student who went missing in October and who still has not been found, drowned Tuesday afternoon while swimming across the Guadalupe River in Comal County.