AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ A House committee has approved a $3 billion plan to help state agencies meet higher-than-expected costs in the remaining months of the fiscal year. By a unanimous vote Monday, the House [Read More…]
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) _ More residents of Hurricane Ike-swamped Galveston have opted to return home as rebuilding continues. CenterPoint Energy reports the number of electric customers has reached 85 percent of pre-storm levels. Texas Gas [Read More…]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ A joint report from the University of Texas and an environmental group urges state planners to conserve both water and energy. The report released Monday claims that improving water conservation will [Read More…]
HOUSTON (AP) _ A Harris County grand jury has indicted a police officer for the New Year’s Eve shooting of an aspiring baseball player. Sgt. Jeffrey Cotton was indicted Monday on one count of aggravated [Read More…]
WHEELER, Texas (AP) _ Firefighters continue to make progress controlling a 15,000-acre wildfire that destroyed homes and forced the evacuation of residents in the small Texas Panhandle town of Wheeler. The fire, now being worked [Read More…]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The Texas appeals court judge who declined to keep her office open late the night of an execution will appear before a state panel on misconduct charges in August. Sharon Keller, [Read More…]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) _ Two Texas colleges earned the dubious Jefferson Muzzle Awards Monday for banning gun-related speech. Lone Star College-Tomball, of Tomball, was cited for refusing to allow a conservative student group to distribute [Read More…]
DALLAS (AP) _ A state district judge is expected to formally clear a man who died in prison 13 years into a 25-year sentence for a rape he did not commit, making him the first [Read More…]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ A review of personnel records reveals all 11 former Corpus Christi State School employees accused of encouraging fights among mentally and developmentally disabled residents at the troubled school had little work [Read More…]
SAN ANTONIO (AP) _ In the final hours of his life, condemned murderer Luis Salazar talked not of the stabbing that led him to death row but of another murder, one he had gotten away [Read More…]
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