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Two men arrested last fall with the nephew of the former boss of Mexico's Gulf cartel have been sentenced to time served for giving false statements to federal agents.More >>

An airline passenger who refused to turn off an electronic cigarette could face a federal charge in Portland.More >>

A bronze sculpture commemorating Mexican cowboys and their role in Texas ranching will keep its gun.More >>

A judge in Houston has been barred from hearing a neighboring county's cases in a dispute over a shoplifting charge against a friend's daughter.More >>

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Police have determined that a 4-year-old boy found his mother's gun and fatally shot his 3-year-old boy at their Central Texas home.More >>

A hearing is set to determine whether a Texas man sentenced to death for killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old son should get a new trial.More >>

The punishment phase is starting in the trial of a North Texas man who kidnapped his ex-neighbor and held her captive for nearly two weeks.More >>

A Texas biologist says recent milder winters may attract some new, bloodthirsty wildlife to South Texas.More >>

A surging Rick Santorum is running even with Mitt Romney atop the Republican presidential field, but neither candidate is faring well against President Barack Obama eight months before Americans vote, a new survey shows.More >>

For every presidential candidate, there's now at least one $1 million donor.More >>

University of Texas researchers say they are encouraged by the results of experiments into repairing damaged nerves in rats.More >>

Three Texas men whom federal officials say were been linked to a gun used in a U.S. agent's death in Mexico have been sentenced after pleading guilty to weapons charges.More >>

Federal immigration agents are processing 87 suspected illegal immigrants found crowded into a house in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas.More >>

One man's remarkable comic book collection that includes some of the most prized issues ever published is expected to fetch more than $2 million at auction.More >>

El Paso's mayor is appealing for public calm after a woman was wounded while shopping downtown by what appears to be a stray bullet from neighboring Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.More >>

American Airlines workers in Tulsa say they are stepping up efforts to save hundreds of local jobs that could be on the bankrupt company's chopping block.More >>

By The Associated Press Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Feb. 19, 2012.More >>

Texas authorities have removed 11 children from a home after finding some restrained by harnesses and discovering other signs of abuse.More >>

Prosecutors say an East Texas woman faces up to 25 years in prison in a drug manufacturing and stolen mail case.More >>

The lawyer credited with giving Albuquerque real estate executive and admitted Ponzi schemer Doug Vaughan the idea for raising cash through promissory notes has reached a settlement in the case.More >>

Searchers on the ground and by air have been trying to find a small airplane that disappeared from radar and lost radio contact over West Texas.More >>

Authorities have resumed the search for a single-engine airplane that disappeared from radar and lost radio contact over West Texas.More >>

The superintendent of the San Antonio Independent School District has announced his resignation in an agreement with trustees.More >>

Newt Gingrich is asserting that President Barack Obama pursues an "outrageously anti-American" energy policy that snubs the Keystone oil pipeline and puts too much stock in electric car technology to wean the country from...More >>

Rocker Bret Michaels and Grammy-winning singer Cyndi Lauper were expected to usher in Mardi Gras with musical performances in the wee hours of the morning Tuesday during a glitzy ball following the Orpheus parade.More >>

Testimony is resuming in the North Texas trial of a man accused of torturing his former neighbor on a deer-skinning device and chaining her to a bed after kidnapping her.More >>

Officials in a Dallas suburb are warning that smoke could make driving hazardous on some major highways because of a prescribed burn at a nearby state park.More >>

An unmistakable dynamic is playing out in the money game among Republican presidential candidates: New "super" political action committees are growing more powerful than the campaigns they support.More >>

A Nuevo Leon state official says nine guards have confessed to helping Zetas drug gangsters escape from prison before other Zetas slaughtered 44 rival inmates.More >>

A San Antonio police officer is hospitalized after a pickup truck hit him as he worked an accident scene on Interstate 410 on the northwest side of the city.More >>

Longtime Blanco County Sheriff Bill Elsbury has died at the age of 60.More >>

The rocket arcing up into the northern lights above Alaska was on its way to measure the effects of the celestial phenomenon's effects on global positioning systems.More >>

A notorious Texas double murder will be revisited this week when the man condemned to die for the crime seeks a new trial.More >>

Some small business owners are complaining that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement audits touted as deterrents to hiring illegal immigrants are instead becoming a "money grab" through fines over paperwork errors.More >>

A plane that crashed in a Colorado snowstorm, killing two people, was a twin-engine Cessna 414A registered in Texas.More >>

Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is not being warmly received by at least one group of Mormons. That's the fast-growing group of Latino Mormons.More >>

Houston-area drivers on the road alone will have to start paying to use a new high-occupancy toll lane after a week of free rides.More >>

Carnival in New Orleans is building toward the out-of-control crescendo of Fat Tuesday. But Barry Kern and his team of float-builders and artists are already planning for next year's party.More >>

Four Associated Press reporters are among the recipients of this year's prestigious George Polk Awards in Journalism.More >>

The Texas Farm Bureau's head state lobbyist says state lawmakers have yet to craft a way to pay for a state water plan Texas developed in 1997 in response to a drought.More >>

Corpus Christi's city council will discuss a proposed ban on plastic retail shopping bags this week.More >>

A South Texas sheriff's department's lavish use of forfeited drug and weapons trafficking proceeds on such items as cedar paneling for his office has prompted the state attorney general's office to launch an...More >>

A judge overseeing a lawsuit brought by the family of a California boy molested by his troop leader has ordered the Boy Scouts of America to hand over confidential files detailing allegations of sexual abuse by Scout leaders...More >>

A noted New York lawyer and Ponzi scheme victim of Bernie Madoff has signed on to help victims of New Mexico swindler Doug Vaughan.More >>

Officials in northern Mexico say a prison riot has left about 20 people dead.More >>

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul says the U.S. is "slipping into a fascist system" dominated by big government and big businesses.More >>

About 500 people gathered at a chapel to remember the life of a brigadier general who died earlier this month in Afghanistan.More >>

Police in Killeen are investigating the shooting death of a 4-year-old boy, which may have been accidental.More >>

Police say two people are dead after an early morning shooting at an apartment complex in northeast Dallas.More >>

Doctors and clinic administrators say women are reacting to Texas' new abortion law in different ways.More >>

The 8th Court of Appeals has blocked an election to recall the El Paso mayor and two council members who voted to restore benefits to city workers' domestic partners.More >>

According to a letter from a school district attorney to the state attorney general, surveillance cameras in a Brownsville middle school partially captured the fatal shooting by police of a 15-year old student armed with a...More >>

Dozens of frustrated investors have crowded into a Houston courtroom to watch the trial of Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, who is accused of bilking thousands of people in a $7 billion Ponzi scheme.More >>

Investigators say DNA has linked a Colorado inmate suspected of being the "Ether Man" serial rapist to a string of sexual assaults that roiled the University of Oklahoma campus from 1985 to 2005.More >>

A minority partner in BP's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico has agreed to pay $90 million in a settlement with the federal government and Gulf states to resolve allegations the company violated the Clean Water Act.More >>

John Glenn fever has taken hold of Cape Canaveral once again.More >>

The Texas House Public Education committee is gathering to discuss the success and failure of charter schools statewide.More >>

A mother and her two children have died after their mobile home in Waco caught on fire.More >>

A federal appeals court in Chicago is criticizing the U.S. Bureau of Prisons for sending a convicted former U.S. deputy marshal to the same prison where his father died decades ago.More >>

A suspected robber in San Antonio was nabbed when he dropped his ID at the store.More >>

President Felipe Calderon on Thursday unveiled a "No More Weapons!" billboard made with crushed firearms and placed near the U.S. border. He urged the United States to stop the flow of weapons into Mexico.More >>

Police say two men were shot in the leg during a New Orleans parade that's part of the run-up to Mardi Gras, and a 16-year-old boy was arrested.More >>

Jurors have heard an audio-recorded interview of a Texas man telling investigators he never planned to kill his ex-neighbor after he kidnapped and sexually assaulted her.More >>

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is decrying the "war on drugs" in a speech to supporters in Washington state.More >>

State transportation officials have completed a feasibility study into launching passenger rail service from Austin to Houston via Bryan-College Station.More >>

A North Texas man has received a 47-year prison sentence for murder in the death of one of two neighbors killed after helping him to move.More >>

Federal investigators are looking into why a giant radar blimp tethered high over the Texas-Mexico border in far West Texas crashed this week.More >>

Planned Parenthood's president says the group is working again with Susan G. Komen for the Cure - "great news and a wonderful ending" to what wasn't such a happy story.More >>

Refining cutbacks due to slumping demand and global political and economic tensions are being blamed for climbing gasoline prices in Texas and nationally.More >>

Aides say Mitt Romney is out and Rick Santorum is doubtful for a March 1 presidential debate in Atlanta sponsored by CNN.More >>

More than 1,000 people attended the world premiere of the independent film Deadline, which was made in Nashville and inspired by the true story of how a newspaper helped solve a small-town racially motivated killing.More >>

A school district employee near Amarillo died when a district pickup truck he had turned on burst into flames.More >>

A retired British businessman accused of plotting to sell missile components to Iran will be extradited to the United States next week.More >>

Hoping to placate critics of a proposed coal swap involving a Montana American Indian tribe, U.S. Sen. Max Baucus is offering new legislation to make the deal more balanced.More >>

A Houston-area jury has returned a $20 million verdict for a rape victim who accused her apartment complex of not telling residents about other attacks.More >>

A second complaint has been filed this year against the Austin Police Department's DNA crime lab.More >>

A Texas woman allegedly tortured by a former neighbor says she never stopped praying during the 12 days she was held captive.More >>

The driver of a Central Texas school bus involved in a collision that injured 32 people, including 29 children, has died of his injuries almost a month after the crash.More >>

A West Texas man has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty after stabbing a 14-week-old puppy.More >>

A man described by U.S. officials as an agent of Mexico's notorious Gulf drug cartel has been sentenced to 27 years in a U.S. prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy in a Gulf Cartel drug smuggling operation.More >>

Mexican police have found the mutilated bodies of six men inside plastic bags dumped on a road leading to the tourist city of Cuernavaca.More >>

Officials say a Barrio Azteca gang leader in West Texas has been sentenced to life in federal prison after pleading guilty to participating in a racketeering conspiracy.More >>

The Pentagon is offering new details of its plan for shifting from a combat mission in Afghanistan to one focused on training and advising Afghan forces as they gradually shoulder more of the combat burden.More >>

Prosecutors have rested their case in the fraud trial of jailed Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford.More >>

A South Texas constable candidate has been jailed on money laundering charges after officers found more than $1 million in his car during a traffic stop.More >>

Since it changed hands in May, signs at the Golden Nugget Atlantic City have urged customers to "watch the transformation" from the former Trump Marina Hotel Casino into something newer and shinier.More >>