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HOUSTON (AP) _ Two past or current leaders in Hempstead face prison for soliciting and accepting bribes linked to city demolition contracts. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Houston says now-former Mayor Pro-Tem Larry Wilson and [Read More…]

HOUSTON (AP) _ The chief investment officer of troubled Stanford Financial Group was due in federal court Friday after being arrested in Houston where the company is based. Laura Pendergest-Holt is accused of obstructing a [Read More…]

SAN ANTONIO (AP) _ The Texas A&M University System is ready to give its first glimpse of a nearly 700-acre campus in San Antonio. Gov. Rick Perry was expected to attend Thursday’s unveiling of the [Read More…]

TEMPLE, Texas (AP) _ Jamie Hager Clements, the youngest legislator ever elected to the Texas House of Representatives and the man who helped build the modern Scott and White Hospital, has died. He was 78. [Read More…]

WASHINGTON (AP) _ A judge says the U.S. government must turn over documents related to the shooting of a fleeing drug smuggler or explain why it’s withholding them. The 2005 shooting led to the imprisonment [Read More…]

HOUSTON (AP) _ A judge in Houston today ruled a woman convicted of stabbing her husband 193 times and burying him in the backyard — could get a new sentence. The judge decided that testimony [Read More…]

DALLAS (AP) _ Two pieces of a meteor that blazed across the Texas sky earlier this month are going from the asteroid belt to the auction block. Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries announced today it is [Read More…]

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) _ An 11-count indictment unsealed Thursday says 17 members of a violent gang face drugs and weapons charges. Authorities say Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation committed gang-related killings in West Texas. [Read More…]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Texas is moving forward with road and bridge maintenance projects to be paid for by $505 million in federal economic stimulus money. The Texas Transportation Commission is expected to approve $1.2 [Read More…]