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.

Updated: 8:30 PM The Humane Society of the United States has seized hundreds of dogs that were allegedly being hoarded on a property in Montgomery County.

Updated: 5:16 PM A defense attorney says a Texas plastic surgeon intends to fight the allegation that he paid someone thousands of dollars in silver bars to kill a fellow doctor who was dating his ex-girlfriend.

Posted: 3:33 PM Leaders of the Texas Veterans Commission say pending claims have almost doubled in two years and more employees are needed.

Posted: 3:06 PM Texas Gov. Rick Perry wants President Barack Obama to apologize while in Texas for his attorney general's criticism of the state's voter ID law.

Updated: 2:57 PM Convicted killer Yokamon (YOKE'-uh-mon) Hearn once bragged how the carjacking murder that would send him to death row earned him a newspaper headline.

Updated: 2:49 PM An electrician has pleaded guilty to tax fraud and will avoid retrial on allegations he overbilled a Southeast Texas school district.

Posted: 10:24 AM Military prosecutors were to begin making their case Tuesday against an Air Force sergeant who faces the most serious charges, including rape, in a widening sex scandal at the Texas base where U.S. airmen go through basic training.

Posted: 3:50 AM Texas lawmakers are considering changing public school management practices to allow districts to save money.

Updated: 10:50 PM A Kingwood mother accused of driving drunk and causing a crash that killed her 8-month-old child has been indicted by a Montgomery County grand jury.

Updated: 10:24 PM The small Washington County town of Burton is proud of its German heritage. But there's something bigger that attracts folks from all over.

Posted: 10:22 AM More older Texans apparently struggling to make ends meet have been turning to food stamps.

Updated: 4:35 PM The Harris County Sheriff's Office is reporting one person died after a lightning strike in north Houston.

Posted: 5:13 PM Authorities in northeastern Texas and southwestern Arkansas are searching for an escapee from the Bowie County Correctional Center in Texarkana, Texas.

Posted: 4:53 PM The attorney for a West Texas teenager accused of faking cancer to steal $17,000 in donations wants his client's trial moved.

Posted: 1:18 PM San Antonio prosecutors say they haven't heard from Pennsylvania authorities or the person who accused former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky of abuse at the 1999 Alamo Bowl.

Updated: 1:20 PM Closing arguments are set to begin today at a trial that will determine the fate of Texas' controversial voter ID law.

Posted: 7:57 PM Gov. Rick Perry is making his first campaign trip on behalf of Mitt Romney to Nevada.

Posted: 4:49 PM Officials say at least three subdivisions in the Houston area could experience flooding after heavy rains caused a creek to flow out of its banks.

Updated: 8:07 PM A Texas woman has pleaded guilty to injury to a child, acknowledging she beat her 2-year-old daughter and glued the girl's hands to a wall.

Updated: 3:48 PM Army Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo, 22, who was convicted on May 24 of plotting to detonate a bomb in a restaurant frequented by Fort Hood soldiers, fired his attorneys Thursday and will represent himself during sentence.

Posted: 3:42 PM A questionnaire likely will be sent this week to potential military jurors in the murder trial of the Army psychiatrist charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage.

Posted: 3:37 PM An expert witness for the Justice Department says the Texas voter ID law would affect minority voters more than white ones.