Month: December 2011

SAN ANTONIO (AP) _ Authorities say a 12-year-old girl shot by her mother during a standoff at a Texas welfare office has died. Laredo police spokesman Joe Baeza said Ramie Grimmer died Wednesday at a [Read More…]

SAN ANTONIO (AP) _ Texas child welfare authorities say they were called twice to investigate a mother who eventually shot her two children at a state welfare office before killing herself. In the first case, [Read More…]

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) _ Weather officials say they considered reclassifying parts of North Texas into the least severe stage of drought but held off because recent rains haven’t boosted lakes levels. National Weather Service meteorologist [Read More…]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ State sales tax revenue was up 12.2 percent last month in Texas. That’s compared to receipts from the previous November. Texas Comptroller Susan Combs announced the figures Wednesday. She says it [Read More…]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The Texas Department of Public Safety is taking to the waves. The DPS is scheduled to commission a new shallow-water interceptor vessel in Austin on Thursday for use in patrols of [Read More…]

WHITNEY, Texas (AP) _ A man is dead and two deputies are wounded after a domestic disturbance call to a home near a Central Texas lake climaxed in a shootout. Hill County Sheriff Jeffrey Lyon [Read More…]

WACO, Texas (AP) _ An elected official of a Central Texas county has been arrested and charged with theft and giving false information. Texas Rangers arrested McLennan County Tax Assessor-Collector Buddy Skeen at his office [Read More…]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ A federal appeals court has affirmed the convictions of five organizers of a Muslim charity in Texas tied to funneling money to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. The U.S. Fifth Circuit [Read More…]