Charter School Rally Planned at Texas Capitol
Posted: 10:08 AM Parents and activists are set to rally at the state Capitol for high-profile proposed legislation to expand charter schools in Texas.
Posted: 10:08 AM Parents and activists are set to rally at the state Capitol for high-profile proposed legislation to expand charter schools in Texas.
Updated: 9:50 AM Several hundred people turned out for a discussion of a draft environmental study of a proposal to launch rockets from the southernmost tip of Texas.
Updated: 9:16 AM State health officials have raised mercury concerns in advising some people not to eat or to limit consumption of certain fish caught off the Texas coast.
Posted: 7:48 AM The Texas Education Agency has asked federal officials to widen a school testing scandal investigation to include two more West Texas districts.
Posted: 6:43 AM Almost a month into their review of the deadly blast at a Texas fertilizer plant, investigators hope to diagram how the plant looked before the explosion.
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.
Posted: 1:04 PM More than 700 top CEOs around the nation are ranking Texas as the best state to do business for the ninth year in a row in Chief Executive magazine’s annual Best and Worst States survey.
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.
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.
Posted: 8:57 AM A Kansas City-based pipeline operator has agreed to a $7 billion merger with an affiliated company.
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.
Updated: 8:26 AM A convicted drug dealer faces execution for shooting an 18-year-old man to death a decade ago during a robbery outside a Waco convenience store.
Posted: 8:16 AM A board appointed by the state to manage the El Paso school district holds its first official meeting after taking over for the district's ousted board.
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.
Posted: 6:58 AM Pope Francis has appointed the auxiliary bishop of Dallas, Mark J. Seitz, the new bishop of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso.
Posted: 6:47 AM The Texas House has approved a law that would ban state and local police from working with federal authorities on new gun laws.
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.
Posted: 6:05 AM Gov. Rick Perry is welcoming President Barack Obama ahead of his visit to Austin this week.
Posted: 6:42 PM As Texas roadways become increasingly crowded, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is asking drivers to Share the Road and Look Twice during National Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month.
Updated: 3:50 PM About 27,000 Atmos Energy customers have been accidentally charged 10 times the amount of their bill.
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.
Posted: 10:13 AM Emergency officials say a 9-year-old boy has died after being pulled from a burning home in San Antonio.
