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Man Who Posed as Texas Student to be Released

Posted: 5:38 AM A former Haitian star athlete is to be released after serving a prison sentence on charges arising from his posing as a teenage Odessa high school athlete.

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Some Cigarette Prices Would Climb Under House Bill

Updated: 12:11 PM The Texas House has narrowly approved and sent to the Senate a bill cutting taxes on chewing tobacco by more than 30 percent but raising the price of some smaller brands of cigarettes.

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Ore. Soldier Among 5 Killed in Afghanistan

Posted: 9:38 AM The family of a Bend soldier who was among five Fort Bliss troops killed by a roadside bomb last weekend says he had recently reenlisted because he didn't want to leave his unit.

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Closings Set in Texas Courthouse Killing Case

Updated: 8:44 AM Jurors will soon begin deciding the fate of a Houston man convicted of capital murder for a bystander's death during a shooting rampage outside a Texas courthouse last year.

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Despite Rain, South Texas Crop Losses Could Hit $100 Million

Updated: 9:14 AM Despite drenching rains April 28, drought-stricken row crops growers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley may be in for another disastrous year, possibly doubling their $50 million drought losses of 2006, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts in Weslaco.

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Depeche Mode, Cure, Muse Top ACL Fest Lineup

Updated: 7:54 AM Depeche Mode, The Cure, Muse - this year's expanded Austin City Limits Festival will feature something of a European invasion with five of eight headliners at least partially coming from across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Senate OKs Testing, Graduation Standards Overhaul

Posted: 6:26 AM The Texas Senate has unamimously passed a major high school curriculum overhaul, reducing the number of standardized test students must pass to graduate high school from 15 to five.

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Campus Carry, School Marshals Get Legislative OKs

Updated: 8:10 AM Members of the Texas House largely breezed through a slew of gun bills Saturday - that could change the conceal handgun licensing process, where CHL holders can carry, and how school kids are protected.

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Blinn Leader Named President of John Tyler College

Updated: 2:24 PM The Virginia Community College System announced today their hire of Dr. Ted Raspiller as incoming president of John Tyler Community College in the communities of Chester and Midlothian, Va.

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Schumer Wants to Block 3D Plastic Guns

Posted: 10:03 AM New York Sen. Charles Schumer says the ability for making an untraceable and undetectable gun with a 3D printer is "stomach-churning."

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Cornyn to Talk Security, Trade at Border

Posted: 9:47 AM U.S. Sen. John Cornyn is scheduled to discuss security and trade matters with local law enforcement and business officials in Rio Grande City.

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Texas House Shifts Focus to Tax Breaks

Updated: 7:20 AM The Texas House will begin slowly and selectively whittingly down the state business tax this week, as Republicans work to make good on a promise to cut taxes.

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School District Considers $1 Million Scoreboard

Posted: 6:47 AM A South Texas town of 36,000 is considering spending $1 million for what it hopes would be the largest high school stadium scoreboard screen in Texas and possibly the country.

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