| |Thursday, May. 09, 2013
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is launching a new effort to rally the public around his hotly disputed health care law, a strategy aimed at shoring up key components of the sweeping federal overhaul and staving off yet another challenge from Republicans.Read more
| |Thursday, May. 09, 2013
LUBBOCK, Texas — Crews worked all day Thursday to stop a chemical tank leak at an agricultural chemicals vendor in Lubbock that had forced residents of a nearby neighborhood out of their homes.Read more
|Thursday, May. 09, 2013
MERCER, Pa. — A father and son from western Pennsylvania have been charged with molesting a girl who is unable to speak because she has cerebral palsy.Read more
|Thursday, May. 09, 2013
NACOGDOCHES, Texas — An East Texas man convicted of using a machete to attack people after breaking into their homes has been sentenced to 75 years in prison.Read more
|Thursday, May. 09, 2013
SANTA FE, Texas — Police in Southeast Texas say the mother of a 14-year-old boy shot in the leg in a videotaped incident didn't seek help for seven hours while researching gunshot wounds online.Read more
| |Thursday, May. 09, 2013
HOUSTON — A judge ruled Wednesday that cheerleaders at Kountze High School can display banners emblazoned with Bible verses at football games.Read more
| |Thursday, May. 09, 2013
Texans scramble to try to halt an effort to sell off most of Big Bend longhorn herd.Read more
| |Thursday, May. 09, 2013
AUSTIN — The architect of the House bill is uncertain he has the votes to get the measure out of his own committee.Read more
| |Wednesday, May. 08, 2013
The body of 23-year-old Kasie Clary was found Saturday near Grandview in north Hill County.Read more
|Wednesday, May. 08, 2013
HOUSTON — The state's highest criminal appeals court has upheld a lower court's ruling rejecting an appeal for a Fort Worth man sent to death row for killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old son eight years ago.Read more
| |Wednesday, May. 08, 2013
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas death row inmate convicted of killing a fellow drug dealer while robbing him outside of a Waco convenience store 10 years ago was executed Tuesday evening.Read more
| |Tuesday, May. 07, 2013
Donations from Monty Bennett and another wealthy landowner make the Tarrant Regional Water District board election a flashy affair.Read more
| |Tuesday, May. 07, 2013
Oil-rich Midland and Odessa top the chart for small cities while Fort Worth comes in at No. 4 among metro areas.Read more
|Tuesday, May. 07, 2013
KEMP — A Dallas-area police chief has been rescued after falling into an abandoned water well while trying to help round up some loose cattle.Read more
|Tuesday, May. 07, 2013
GREENVILLE, Texas — An uncle of an East Texas girl last seen alive getting off a school bus has been charged in her 2012 slaying.Read more
| |Tuesday, May. 07, 2013
AUSTIN — The measure would slash the number of tests required to graduate from the state’s high schools.Read more
| |Tuesday, May. 07, 2013
HILLSBORO — The body of a woman found Saturday in north Hill County has been identified as Kasie Clary, 23.Read more
| |Tuesday, May. 07, 2013
WEATHERFORD — A Weatherford man is accused of pulling a gun at Parker County taco stand early Sunday morning, but another man disarmed him, officials said.Read more
|Monday, May. 06, 2013
AUSTIN, Texas — A store of ammonium nitrate is what exploded April 17 at a Central Texas plant, killing 14 people, injuring hundreds and devastating an adjoining town.Read more
|Monday, May. 06, 2013
MOUNT ENTERPRISE, Texas — Three Stephen F. Austin State University students have been killed and another hurt in a two-vehicle wreck in East Texas.Read more