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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court ordered the state Friday to pay about $2 million to an ex-inmate who spent 26 years in prison for murder before his conviction was overturned, a decision legal experts said could set ...

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Freedom Communications has sold off The Brownsville Herald, the Odessa American and four other Texas newspapers to newly formed AIM Media Texas.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas higher education commissioner has told lawmakers that teachers are not adequately trained to prepare students for tough new standardized tests.

DALLAS (AP) — A natural gas company serving a dozen states has warned customers that President Barack Obama will not be paying their bills.

WACO, Texas (AP) — A federal judge in Central Texas has sentenced two bank robbers to prison for 2011 holdups in Texas and Missouri.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A 12-year-old Texas boy who was suspended from school after shaving his head to resemble the face of Spurs forward Matt Bonner scored tickets to a playoff game and props from his favorite NBA player.

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Twenty head of cattle have been killed after an 18-wheeler they were in got stuck on railroad tracks and hit by a train outside of Lubbock.

DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas jury is deliberating the fate of a former Roman Catholic priest accused of plotting the death of a man who accused him of sexual abuse.

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Recent rainfall across much of West Texas has diminished to less than 2 percent the area of the state in the worst drought stage.

WACO, Texas (AP) — A coroner has ruled the death of a Baylor University student whose body was found in a burning car was a suicide.

DALLAS (AP) — Two supervisors have been disciplined and two detectives are being reassigned, at least temporarily, as an investigation continues into thousands of improperly stored family violence case files.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said Wednesday that the powerful Club for Growth and other conservative political action committees pouring money into the U.S. Senate race in Texas are spreading lies about him to manipulate the election ...

DALLAS (AP) — The engineer who signed off on plans for the tent-like Dallas Cowboys practice facility that collapsed and seriously injured two team employees three years ago is paying a $12,000 fine to settle faulty design charges from the ...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — San Antonio police say a toddler has survived a three-story fall by landing in some mud.

HOUSTON (AP) — A man sent to death row for the slaying of an East Texas woman nearly nine years ago has lost a federal court appeal, moving him a step closer to execution.