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.

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.