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More than one-dozen busses hit the road for Louisiana Thursday, returning hundreds of Hurricane Gustav evacuees home from shelters in North Texas.

The spinning core of Gustav bore down on southern Jamaica on Thursday evening, after leaving 67 people dead in Hispaniola and at least 59 dead in Haiti.

A two-alarm fire has ignited at Furnish Avenue and Interstate 35 to the south of downtown.

A review finds most employees at the five agencies of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission don't get required training.

Hundreds of Hurricane Gustav evacuees today left Texas shelters and headed home.

CBS 7 Staff August 29, 2008 Today is the deadline to file an application to run for the District 81 special election, to fill the late Buddy West's seat.

A driver has been arrested and charged in the fatal hit-and-run of a Texas Department of Transportation worker, police told KPRC Local 2 Tuesday.

Tuesday, September 02, 2008 at 8:14 a.m. A law that makes it thougher for some elderly Texans to drive may be getting more restrictions.

HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt declared a public health emergency on Sunday, August 31, to ensure that individuals, including those enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program , ...

Given the rancor spawned by state Rep. Tom Craddick's six-year tenure as Texas Speaker of the House, it may be just as well that a federal court has lifted the ban on spending money to elect the speaker.

With parts of his district still recovering from Hurricane Rita and worries about possible flooding from Hurricane Gustav, U.S. Representative Kevin Brady decided to skip the Republican national convention in ...

President Bush, trying to prove his administration has learned the haunting lessons of Katrina, flew to Texas for briefings on Hurricane Gustav, which hit land on Monday, battering the Gulf Coast with flood ...

Jean Barrar, 88, a resident of Vickery Towers retirement center, drives daily to various volunteer activities.

Long before the traditional Labor Day campaign kickoff, Texas legislative candidates are preparing for their general election battles by raising an eye-popping $31 million.

Emergency officials have opened westbound Texas 105 traffic at Texas 146, according to a news release from Texas Department of Transportation.

Texas Governor Rick Perry has issued a disaster declaration for 61 Texas counties including those in Southeast Texas because of the threat posed by Gustav.

All 150 House seats and 16 Senate districts are on the ballot in the high-stakes battle for the Texas Legislature.

Residents in areas ravaged by Hurricane Rita three years ago began fleeing Saturday ahead of what authorities said would be a mandatory evacuation order as Gustav strengthened into a powerful Category 4 storm.

Texas leads the nation in drunk driving fatalities, according to the Texas Department of Transportation, which hopes to discourage drunk driving during the Labor Day holiday with its "Drink. Drive.

The career of the first Texas Republican speaker in modern times is on the line.