State News

Gov. Rick Perry has appointed former Texas Secretary of State Phil Wilson to the committee that oversees the state's $3 billion cancer research fund.

Thousands of Texas Baptists are responding to a nationwide "Buckets of Hope" food drive for earthquake victims in Haiti.

A lawsuit accuses an oil and gas company owned by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones of aiding an alleged $15 million fraud.

A 26-year-old San Antonio man has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his new bride.

An effort to require Texas students to learn about congressional Medal of Honor recipients turned into an emotional debate about race for the State Board of Education.

A former employee of a state facility for the developmentally disabled accused of sanctioning fights among residents has pleaded guilty midway through his Corpus Christi trial.

Authorities say a Reeves County sheriff's deputy was in stable condition after being shot as he served a warrant. The suspect later died following a standoff with law enforcement.

Joshua Maxwell was portrayed with his girlfriend as living out the violence-glorifying 1990s film "Natural Born Killers." Now he's winding up the title character in a for-real version of the prison movie "Dead Man Walking."

The Texas Department of Public Safety says an off-duty state trooper who was shot at the home of another off-duty trooper is in stable condition.

Math and English instruction in the United States moved a step closer to uniform — and more rigorous — standards today as draft new national guidelines were released.