Month: November 2011

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The governor will have new powers to grant pardons, elected officials will have more time to resign before running for another office and there’s a more money for student loans after [Read More…]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Texas voters rejected a tax exemption proposed to promote water conservation, along with new bonding power for El Paso County. They also shot down a constitutional amendment that would have given [Read More…]

WACO, Texas (AP) _ An AWOL soldier accused of plotting to bomb Fort Hood soldiers has been indicted on a charge of trying to use of a weapon of mass destruction. It’s part of a [Read More…]

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (AP) _ Partygoers floating on the Comal and Guadalupe rivers can no longer bring beer cans. New Braunfels voters have upheld a controversial ban on disposable containers. The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung reports [Read More…]

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) _ Texas officials say the driver in a bus crash that killed one Abilene Christian University student last week was not speeding at the time the vehicle left a roadway south of [Read More…]