Jury to Deliberate Man's Penalty for Killing Sons
Posted: 6:59 AM Jurors will begin deliberating whether a North Texas man should die for drowning his two young sons.
Posted: 6:59 AM Jurors will begin deliberating whether a North Texas man should die for drowning his two young sons.
Posted: 6:52 AM A solar-powered plane has landed in Texas, completing the second leg of a trip across the United States.
Updated: 8:56 AM A possible watershed date has arrived for the Boy Scouts of America.
Updated: 7:17 AM The State Fire Marshal's Office says a federal safety panel's investigators had access to the site of a Texas fertilizer plant blast that killed 15 people and injured about 200 others.
Posted: 5:55 AM Veteran Democrat Rep. Craig Eiland of Galveston says he won't seek re-election.
Posted: 5:43 AM The Texas Legislature has approved a bill allowing publishers to mitigate libel lawsuits if the party affected by a mistake doesn't request a correction or retraction.
Posted: 5:35 AM The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood attack wants to represent himself at his upcoming murder trial, which means he could question the nearly three dozen soldiers he's accused of wounding in the shooting rampage.
Posted: 5:22 AM A spending bill crucial to a complex Texas budget deal contains an extra $200 million to public schools as pledged by Senate negotiators.
Posted: 4:22 PM A judge in West Texas has ordered that a mental health evaluation be done for a former paramedic who's accused of possessing bomb-making material.
Posted: 1:39 PM Schools could train teachers to exchange fire with potential attackers under a plan advancing in the Texas Capitol.
Updated: 1:33 PM Retail gasoline prices across Texas have risen 2 cents as travelers prepare for the long Memorial Day holiday weekend.
Updated: 10:14 AM The Boy Scouts of America will convene a two-day meeting of 1,400 local leaders to consider changing its long-standing ban on allowing openly gay boys to don the Boy Scouts uniform.
Posted: 7:18 AM Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst says he is taking House leaders at their word, and that delicate pieces of a complicated Texas budget deal will be passed.
Updated: 8:30 AM Concealed handgun license holders in Texas would be allowed to carry a revolver or semi-automatic pistol, regardless of what they trained with on the shooting range under a bill advancing in the Texas Legislature.
Posted: 6:57 AM A much-watched bill designed to give the public more information on schools, taxes, government spending and debt held by state entities has gone down on a House technicality.
Updated: 10:15 AM A bill that would allow the state to drug screen unemployment applicants has passed the Texas House.
Posted: 6:36 AM The head of a federal safety board says federal agents and the state fire marshal are blocking the board from investigating a deadly Central Texas fertilizer plant blast.
Posted: 5:30 AM A Republican lawmaker has resurrected a radioactive waste bill that would allow a West Texas site to store more hazardous materials.
Updated: 10:10 PM Dirk Regter hails from Holland, but he hasn't seen much of home in the past few years.
Updated: 10:24 AM The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) will significantly increase trooper patrols this Memorial Day weekend to help keep Texas roadways safe.
Updated: 9:26 AM More severe weather is in the forecast for parts of the central United States already reeling from powerful tornadoes this week.
Posted: 6:37 AM Disaster help may be available for losses not covered by insurance in a Central Texas town recovering from a fertilizer plant explosion.
Posted: 6:28 AM The Texas House is considering a proposal that would create special districts operated by turnaround experts to improve struggling schools.
