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AUSTIN, Texas - This week three federal judges in San Antonio will start resolving one of the great political mysteries of the year: When will Texas hold primary elections and what will the congressional and legislative districts look like? Texas was supposed to take part in the Super Tuesday vote on March 6, but the failure of the state to win ... (more)

Three weeks after abandoning his presidential campaign, Gov. Rick Perry is re-engaging as leader of the nation's second-largest state, eager to dispel the perception that his ill-fated bid for the White House undercut his political strength back home.

The East will dry out Sunday as wet weather moves across the West. A low pressure trough is advancing eastward over the central Rockies and will produce moderate snow showers over Utah and Colorado.

But a cottage industry of tabloids and websites has sprung up that harvest the often ugly mugs from jail archives across the country, making it much more likely that someone's least-finest hour may be online or in print to provide weeks or years of embarrassment.

A 17-year-old boy has become the fifth juvenile to admit sexually assaulting an 11-year-old Southeast Texas girl.

Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, took 38% of the vote in the poll. Former Pennsylvania Sen.

This undated photo, provided by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement , shows bulk cash seized during a combined ICE and Homeland Security Investigation operation.

Max Pons is already anticipating the anxiety he'll feel when the heavy steel gate shuts behind him, leaving his home isolated on a strip of land between America's border fence and the violence raging across the Rio Grande in Mexico.For the past year, the manager of a sprawling preserve on the southern tip of Texas has been comforted by a gap in the ... (more)

In a parallel political universe -- one in which redistricting maps were in place and elections were on schedule -- Texas would be getting national attention right now.

Less tobacco, more money. Officials at the University of Texas in Austin will consider banning tobacco on the entire campus in a health-related move that could mean more research money.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi predicts that five large states will put Democrats in striking distance of gaining control of the House after the November elections.

Texan and world record holder for the most GINORMOUS breasts, Sheyla Hershey, utilized her 38KKK-sized bust to save herself from certain injury.

Gov. Rick Perry has given $80,000 in tainted campaign donations to El Paso charities, after the original donor was convicted of bribery and fraud.

Former San Diego Union-Tribune publisher Ed Moss has been named president and chief executive officer of The Denver Post.

Law officers at a South Texas border crossing have confiscated nearly a third of a million dollars in unreported cash hidden in a car.

Michele Bachmann is no longer a candidate for president. And she sounds a bit relieved to be done with the national campaign.

The Climate Prediction Center announced Thursday that La Nina will dissipate between March and May.

"Ronald Reagan didn't win his first time too," TX Gov. Rick Perry told bloggers at CPAC.

The private companies that generate electricity in Texas are not building enough new capacity to meet the state 's future needs, top officials told lawmakers Thursday.

A federal judge blasted by Newt Gingrich and other conservatives for his ruling that prohibited prayer at a Texas high school graduation is firing back in accepting a settlement to the case.