Month: February 2009

AUSTIN (AP) _ Texas House Speaker Joe Straus and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst have asked state agencies to cut about 2.5 percent from their current spending. It’s an effort to avoid mandatory funding slashes amid [Read More…]

An accident early Monday in Madison County near Midway has claimed the lives of two men.

A one vehicle accident near Somerville has claimed the life of a teenager. Authorities say

Carol Barrett has announced her plans to run for a seat on the College Station ISD Board of Trustees. Click to hear WTAW’s Chris Clift talk with Barrett: Press release from Carol Barrett: FOR IMMEDIATE [Read More…]

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Associated Press has learned a processing plant in Texas run by the same company blamed for a national salmonella outbreak operated uninspected and unlicensed for years. Texas health records show the [Read More…]

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) _ Investigators say they kept their promise of bringing justice in the “Baby Grace” trial. A Galveston jury on Monday convicted Kimberly Dawn Trenor, 20, of the beating death of her 2-year-old [Read More…]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) _ A Texas man accused of possessing Molotov cocktails during the Republican National Convention in St. Paul will get a new trial. The jury deciding David Guy McKay’s case announced Monday it was [Read More…]

HOUSTON (AP) _ Houston’s elected finance chief plans to run for mayor of the nation’s fourth-largest city. City Controller Annise Parker would be Houston’s first openly gay mayor if elected Nov. 3. She says her [Read More…]

A Bryan woman faces criminal charges after allegedly stabbing her sister-in-law.