AUSTIN -- In the sports world, Craig James was a star football player for Southern Methodist University and the New England Patriots. He later became a household name in Texas as a television analyst for ESPN. Now that he's running for the Senate, J ... full story
RICHARDSON -- A man suspected of starting a shootout with police at a suburban Dallas transit station that left a bystander dead Tuesday was himself found dead a short time later after a second gunfight with pursuing officers, authorities said. The ... full story
SAN ANTONIO -- A federal judge ordered all sides in the Texas redistricting lawsuit to keep talking Monday, just hours after the attorney general announced a compromise plan that prompted immediate pushback from several minority groups involved in t ... full story
AUSTIN -- Texas politicians like to tout the state's economic growth, but more and more Texans are finding themselves teetering on the edge of poverty. There is little doubt Texas has survived the Great Recession better than other states, but a stud ... full story
LEWISVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Funeral services for an American missionary couple murdered in Mexico have been set for Wednesday at their home church in suburban Dallas.John Casias and his wife, Wanda, were found dead Tuesday at their home in a village ou ... full story
AUSTIN -- Occupy Austin's nearly 4-month-long campout in front of City Hall has been ended with police clearing out the demonstrators. At least seven people were arrested and protesters were ousted Friday night, a day after a new city policy took ef ... full story
By DAVID TARRANT The Dallas Morning News KELLER -- Just blocks from suburban sprawl sits an oasis of rolling green pastures and grazing horses, where seldom is heard a discouraging word. Or so it must seem to the war veterans who arrive here for th ... full story
Border Patrol agents have racked up daily overtime at a cost of about $1.4 billion in the past six years while the number of arrests of illegal border crossers has fallen to the lowest level in nearly 40 years, an Associated Press analysis of agency ... full story
SAN ANTONIO -- The once-a-decade fight over political boundaries in Texas has been so frenetic that a Democrat who bolted for the GOP saw his state House district redrawn solidly blue, opted against re-election, then got new hope from the U.S. Supre ... full story
DALLAS -- A Dallas teenager who was deported to South America under a false name never expressed concern during jailhouse phone calls that she was being misidentified as an illegal immigrant from Colombia. The more than two dozen recorded telephone ... full story
HOUSTON -- The rain that started trickling into Texas in the fall may finally be making a dent in Dallas, but the rest of the massive state is still a long way off from being out of a historic drought, and climate experts are warning against any pre ... full story
SAN ANTONIO -- Democrats suing the state over Republican-drawn voting maps expressed new doubts Wednesday that Texas could salvage an April primary as the deadline for reaching a temporary compromise creeps closer. The Texas attorney general's offic ... full story
NEW YORK -- Planned Parenthood said Wednesday that it received more than $400,000 from 6,000 donors in the 24 hours after news broke that its affiliates would be losing grants for breast screenings from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer ... full story
NEW YORK -- A different kind of F-word is stirring a linguistic and political debate as controversial as what it defines. The word is "fracking" -- as in hydraulic fracturing, a technique long used by the oil and gas industry to free oil and gas fro ... full story
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