Updated: 7:52 AM A suspect in a Central Texas double slaying has died after apparently hanging himself in his jail cell.

Posted: 5:56 AM Hundreds of people are joining the parents of a 13-year-old Texas cheerleader to remember the teenager who disappeared in December 2010 and turned up dead last month.

Posted: 5:42 AM Houston police are looking for two or three unknown suspects after one person was killed and two others were wounded in a downtown gunfight.

Posted: 7:59 AM Country star Randy Travis has sued two agencies to block the public release of patrol car video of his 2012 DWI arrest in North Texas.

Posted: 6:05 AM An Army sergeant was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole for the 2009 killings of five fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq.

Updated: 9:16 AM The former mayor of a tiny West Texas town has pleaded guilty to stealing about $100,000 from the town treasury.

Posted: 5:13 AM The manager of the sexual harassment and assault response program at Fort Campbell, Ky., was arrested in a domestic dispute and relieved of his post, authorities said Thursday.

Posted: 8:08 AM An ex-municipal worker in South Texas has been sentenced to more than three years in prison over $68,000 in personal charges put on city credit cards.

Posted: 6:33 AM Criminal suspects suffering from mental illness could stay in jail until they are competent to stand trial under a proposal in the Texas Legislature.

Posted: 6:23 AM A prison inmate has been indicted on a charge that he tried to hire someone to kill a North Texas federal judge.

Updated: 7:14 AM A video showing a man confessing to drowning two of his sons in a creek has been played in his capital murder trial in Dallas.

Updated: 9:10 AM Federal investigators say dozens of people have been charged in Medicare scams that collectively billed the taxpayer-funded program about $223 million in bogus charges.

Updated: 6:46 AM A Texas death row inmate awaits a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on whether his execution for killing a Houston police officer 14 years ago this week should be blocked.

Posted: 6:03 AM A U.S. Army general facing sexual assault charges is due back in court for a hearing on pre-tial motions.

Updated: 9:11 AM A 17-year-old suburban Dallas boy has been charged with human trafficking after a 15-year-old female schoolmate accused him of holding her captive and compelling her into prostitution.

Posted: 11:40 AM Authorities say a North Texas man remains in jail on a murder charge after fatally beating his 75-year-old mother on Mother's Day.

Posted: 6:42 AM A Texas man has been sentenced in New Jersey to 71 months in prison for a stock fraud scheme involving computer hackers.

Posted: 11:47 AM A federal appeals court has refused to stop the scheduled execution this week of a man convicted of killing a Houston police officer 14 years ago this week.

Updated: 10:55 AM Changing his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity is seen as James Holmes' best hope of avoiding the death penalty. His lawyers have avoided taking the step, though, because it also carries risks for Holmes, charged with killing 12 people and injuring 70 on July 20 at a packed midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora.

Updated: 9:07 AM Prosecutors say a former South Texas district attorney and one-time candidate for Congress used the power of his position to profit.

Posted: 10:42 AM A mistrial has been declared in the Central Texas trial of a woman charged in the 2011 fatal stabbing of a Huston-Tillotson University athlete.

Posted: 7:58 AM Just three weeks before he's to stand trial for the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage, an Army psychiatrist wants his trial delayed until this fall.

Updated: 8:43 AM Stanley Robertson will be sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for the August 2010 murder of Annie Toliver in College Station.

Updated: 11:14 AM The jury in the trial of convicted College Station killer Stanley Robertson has, in their words, "deadlocked" on the issue of whether Robertson is mentally retarded, the second of three issues the jury has on its plate to address.

Updated: 6:35 AM A Brazos County jury has began deliberating the fate of convicted College Station killer Stanley Robertson, and will continue Tuesday morning after being sequestered at a local hotel Monday night.