
Tornado-ravaged Texas town to start recovery
Residents whose homes were torn apart or blown away by a North Texas deadly tornado can soon return to retrieve what belongings may be left and start ...

Travis sues to block DWI patrol car video release
Country music star Randy Travis has filed a lawsuit to prevent the release of patrol car video of his 2012 drunken-driving arrest in North Texas.

Texas senior, 18, bags 800-pound record alligator
A Houston-area high school senior has bagged a 14-foot, 800 pound alligator — the heaviest ever certified in Texas — on his first alligator hunt.
Ex-EMT in Texas pleads not guilty to charges
A first responder who helped evacuate people ahead of a deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a charge he ...

Texas launches criminal probe into plant explosion
Texas law enforcement officials on Friday launched a criminal investigation into the massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last ...

Judge rules for cheerleaders in Bible banner suit
A judge ruled Wednesday that cheerleaders at a Southeast Texas high school can display banners emblazoned with Bible verses at football games. But the ...

Safety rules limited for small fertilizer plants
There were no sprinklers. No firewalls. No water deluge systems. Safety inspections were rare at the fertilizer company in West, Texas, that exploded ...

Crews seek survivors, bodies after Texas blast
Rescuers searched the smoking remnants of a Texas farm town Thursday for survivors of a thunderous fertilizer plant explosion, gingerly checking ...
GOP mega-donor Bob Perry of Texas dead at 80
Republican mega-donor Bob Perry, a Houston real estate magnate who shunned the limelight while generously bankrolling GOP candidates and becoming a ...

Driver in Texas bus wreck also drove in '98 crash
The driver of a bus that swerved off a North Texas highway, leaving two passengers dead and dozens injured, was at the wheel in another fatal accident ...

2 killed, dozens injured in bus crash near Dallas
At least two people were killed and more than 40 were hospitalized Thursday after a charter bus careened off a North Texas highway and flipped onto ...

Texas executes man for 1990 fatal shooting, rape
A Texas convict with a lengthy criminal history was executed Tuesday evening for fatally shooting a man and raping the slain man's fiancee during a ...

Texas sex offenders in sight of rare policy win
Four convicted sex offenders huddled in a busy hallway at the Texas Capitol, congratulating each other for going public and testifying against a bill ...

Man killed in Texas called suspect in Colo slaying
Colorado investigators on Saturday said for the first time that a former prison inmate who was killed in a gunfight with Texas authorities is a ...

Arson convictions challenged over fire science
Ed Graf was given life in prison 25 years ago for killing his two stepsons by locking them in a backyard shed and setting it on fire.

Texas prisons install cellphone-blocking equipment
The nation's largest state prison system is turning to electronic weaponry to combat the persistent headache of illegal cellphones smuggled to inmates

George P. Bush running for Texas land commissioner
George Prescott Bush filed the official paperwork Tuesday to run for Texas land commissioner next year, hoping to use a little-known but powerful post ...

Jeb, George P. Bush talk education in Texas
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and his rising-political-star son, George P. Bush, spoke together Tuesday in Texas on education issues, and both men ...

Cruz's tactics boil Washington, but impress Texas
Ted Cruz glanced at his black cowboy boots, beneath a silver Texas belt buckle, waiting for the admirers to stop clapping. His arrival had turned a ...
Russians investigating adoptee's death in Texas
Russian authorities have blamed "inhuman treatment" for the death of a 3-year-old boy adopted by an American family, but Texas officials say they are ...

A Texas-sized silence as immigration talks ramp up
With nearly 2 million illegal immigrants and a 1,200-mile border with Mexico, Texas has more at stake than most states in the renewed push to overhaul ...