AUSTIN -- The Texas Legislature adjourned a two-day special session Thursday, finishing two of the issues assigned by Gov. Rick Perry while a measure to allow the state to continue contracting for privately built toll roads never made it out of commi ... full story
BROWNSVILLE -- Nearly two years ago Mexican soldiers acting on what they said was an anonymous tip seized more than 11 tons of cocaine being unloaded by Gulf Cartel members at a warehouse near the eastern coastal city of Tampico.At the time, Mexican ... full story
SEALY -- A Texas couple was arrested after a state inspector found a half-dozen children locked and unsupervised in a tool shed behind an unlicensed day care center, authorities said.State officials said the children were surrounded by lawn equipment ... full story
WOODWARD, Okla. -- When the middle-of-nowhere town of Woodward invited George W. Bush to its Fourth of July celebration, no one really expected the former president to accept. But he did.Now this community of 12,000 is scurrying to get ready."To actu ... full story
Stanford may get money for lawyersHOUSTON -- A federal judge in Dallas said he would consider a modest request for money to pay lawyers and accountants to look through R. Allen Stanford's personal assets to find money untainted by an alleged $7 billi ... full story
ATLANTA -- In a perverse twist of medical fate, Farrah Fawcett has become the poster girl for anal cancer, a rare disease often linked to a sexually transmitted virus.Before her death last week, at age 62, the actress had come to terms with the illne ... full story
AUSTIN -- The Texas Legislature convened a special session Wednesday and immediately took steps to extend the life of several key state agencies.It was another matter -- whether to extend the state's authority to enter certain public-private road bu ... full story
AUSTIN, Texas -- A nondenominational church is conducting Sunday services in a bar and allowing dogs to attend with their owners.The City Community Church meets Sunday mornings at La Zona Rosa, a music venue and bar, the Austin American-Statesman rep ... full story
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- In one especially soul-baring e-mail to his Argentine mistress, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford quoted from 1 Corinthians 13 about the nature of love.It is patient and kind, he wrote. It is NOT jealous or boastful.The Christian cou ... full story
Another hot day was forecast for Texas on Thursday with a slight chance of rain possible along the Gulf Coast and in West Texas, according to the National Weather Service.In North Texas, skies were expected to be sunny with a high near 100 and overni ... full story
Associated PresFORT WORTH, Texas -- A four-time world champion rodeo clown has been sentenced to five years probation and ordered to pay $15,000 in restitution for helping abscond with 300 head of cattle.The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Asso ... full story
DALLAS -- A 71-year-old woman accused of recruiting family members to marry foreigners seeking green cards pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking part in an immigration fraud conspiracy.Federal prosecutors say Maria Refugia Camarillo of Fort Worth faces ... full story
WEBSTER, Texas -- Webster police used a Taser on a pastor and pepper spray to disperse members of his congregation Wednesday after they said the pastor tried to interfere with a traffic stop of a member of his church.Jose Elias Moran, 42, was charged ... full story
HOUSTON -- An 11-year-old student with special needs was pulled over by police for running a stop sign after he took his teacher's car for a joy ride earlier this week.The boy took his teacher's car keys Monday at the Academic and Behavior Center Eas ... full story
HALTOM CITY, Texas -- In the midst of soaring temperatures, some residents of an apartment complex have suffered through four days of a power outage.Eight buildings at the Oaks at Jane Lane Apartments in Haltom City lost power Sunday and six now have ... full story
The Senate passed a bill extending five state agencies until Sept. 1, 2011. The House is expected to clear the bill as early as Thursday.Authorization of $2 million in bonds for road building is also expected to get easy approval Thursday.A bill rega ... full story
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- To NASA's relief, a fueling test on space shuttle Endeavour uncovered no hydrogen gas leaks Wednesday and paved the way for another launch attempt late next week for the delayed mission.Last month, potentially dangerous leaks ... full story
DALLAS -- U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who is planning a race against Gov. Rick Perry for the Republican nomination for Texas governor, visited troops in Iraq on Wednesday.Hutchison flew into Baghdad on Wednesday, visited with Texas National Guard ... full story
AUSTIN -- Get in, get out and leave town in time for the July Fourth holiday.That's what Texas Gov. Rick Perry has in mind for state lawmakers who will be back in the Capitol on Wednesday for a special session he called to extend the shelf life of so ... full story
NEW ORLEANS -- A man who was deported by Canada last year pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges he duped the Egyptian government into paying more than $7 million for a shipment of frozen chicken he never intended to deliver.Alexander Legault, 59, had m ... full story
HOUSTON -- Marksman Joe Bowman, known as Houston's world-famous "The Straight Shooter," has died. He was 84.Bowman died Monday in his sleep at a hotel during a trip back to Houston from a series of exhibitions and was in good health overall, his wife ... full story
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.-- NASA has filled space shuttle Endeavour's fuel tank in a test, and is finding everything to be leak-free.Launch controllers filled the external tank Wednesday morning to see if repairs plugged a hydrogen gas leak that prevented ... full story
SALT LAKE CITY -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says a spotted frog that lives in 19 Western states may need endangered species protections.Eight environmental groups petitioned the federal government in 2006 to protect the western population of ... full story
ODESSA, Texas -- Ten people have been arrested in the theft of about $2 million worth of oil and gas condensate from oil companies and producers in three West Texas counties.The arrests Tuesday came following a seven-month investigation by the Permia ... full story
MORELIA, Mexico -- Mexican police on Tuesday found the remains of six people tortured and shot to death in a western state that is a focus of the government's war against drug cartels.In other bloodshed, the body of a slain Texas teenager was found i ... full story
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