Month: January 2012

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ State Board of Education members have pressed the Texas education commissioner about whether high-stakes standardized testing is warping classroom teaching to ensure students spend more time preparing for the exams then [Read More…]

SLATON, Texas (AP) _ One person is dead and two others are wounded after a homeowner fatally shot an intruder after interrupting an apparent burglary of his West Texas home. Fred Melcher was in critical [Read More…]

SAN ANTONIO (AP) _ The fight over newly drawn political maps in Texas is shifting back to San Antonio to see if a statewide April 3 primary can be salvaged. Both the state and minority [Read More…]

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) _ A 5-year-old North Texas girl is dead after she was found hanging by the neck from her jump rope on a piece of playground equipment. Police were sent to the [Read More…]

TYLER, Texas (AP) _ An East Texas district attorney has moved to keep a four-legged member on his staff. Sophie is a 2-year-old full-blooded, yellow Labrador retriever. Smith County District Attorney Matt Bingham has put [Read More…]

BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) _ Authorities say a Southeast Texas deputy has been shot twice in the shoulder with his own gun after a 16-year-old boy in custody allegedly disarmed the officer and opened fire. A [Read More…]

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) _ Convicted killer Rodrigo Hernandez has been executed in Texas for the abduction, rape and strangulation of a 38-year-old woman in San Antonio 18 years ago. Hernandez, 38, received lethal injection for [Read More…]