Month: August 2012

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Nearly half of Texas public and charter schools failed to meet federal accountability standards based on the No Child Left Behind Law. That’s a sharp increase that Texas education officials are [Read More…]

BIG LAKE, Texas (AP) _ A West Texas deputy fatally shot last week has been remembered as a man of dignity and integrity at a packed funeral. Mourners filled First Baptist Church in Big Lake [Read More…]

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) _ A federal judge says the JetBlue pilot who disrupted a cross-country flight by running through the plane and yelling has had a psychotic episode in prison. Clayton Osbon was found not [Read More…]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Texas U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz will be among the “headliners” addressing the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Wednesday that the former state solicitor [Read More…]

EL PASO, Texas (AP) _ A Texas medical examiner’s office says cancer led to the death of actor Sherman Hemsley, who starred as George Jefferson in the hit television sitcom “The Jeffersons.” The El Paso [Read More…]

DALLAS (AP) _ The president of Susan G. Komen for the Cure is resigning and founder Nancy Brinker is moving away from day-to-day management as fallout from the foundation’s brief decision to end Planned Parenthood [Read More…]