No lesson plans means no state review for CSCOPE
|Friday, May. 24, 2013
AUSTIN, Texas — The State Board of Education is scrapping its special panel to review a controversial curriculum system, after its creators agreed to stop offering lesson plans.
Report: Texas insurance commissioner stepping down
|Friday, May. 24, 2013
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman says she's steeping down as head of the state's insurance regulatory agency.
Lawmakers set up endangered species task force
|Friday, May. 24, 2013
AUSTIN, Texas — How the state responds to the listing of an endangered species in Texas will be coordinated by a special task force under a bill approved by the Legislature.
NM senators want expanded hours for port of entry
|Friday, May. 24, 2013
SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico's U.S. senators are asking the federal government for 24-hour daily operation of a port of entry at Santa Teresa, along the international border with Mexico.
Texas Brine offers settlements for sinkhole
| |Friday, May. 24, 2013
BATON ROUGE, La. — Texas Brine Co. said Friday that it has started extending settlement offers to Assumption Parish residents who have been under an evacuation order since August because of a 15-acre sinkhole.
FDA warns of infections tied to Tennessee pharmacy
| |Friday, May. 24, 2013
WASHINGTON — Health officials are investigating cases involving patients who suffered complications after being injected with potentially contaminated medications made by a Tennessee specialty pharmacy.
Legislature approves tax breaks for data centers
|Friday, May. 24, 2013
AUSTIN, Texas — High-tech data centers in Texas will receive a tax break from state lawmakers in a proposed law on its way to the governor.
Ex-'Yogurt shop murders' figure seeks compensation
|Friday, May. 24, 2013
AUSTIN, Texas — A man whose conviction in the 1991 slayings of four teenage girls at an Austin yogurt shop was overturned wants compensation for his imprisonment.
Man faces arson charge after Houston fire
|Friday, May. 24, 2013
HOUSTON — Houston police have arrested a man on an arson charge in an apartment complex fire allegedly started by a thrown Molotov cocktail.
Galveston leaders to meet over Ike housing story
|Friday, May. 24, 2013
GALVESTON, Texas — The Galveston City Council will hold a special meeting Tuesday to discuss legal options against a newspaper over a story about where to build new public housing after Hurricane Ike destroyed hundreds of low-income units.
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