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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today charged several "price-comparison" Web sites with unlawfully misleading online shoppers about the quality of certain Internet merchants.

A convicted sex offender sentenced to life in prison pulled a gun on two guards during a prison transfer Monday and held them hostage temporarily before fleeing on foot in one of the guard's uniforms, authorities said.

Positive signs that a beefed-up Texas film incentives program is working: two network television shows shooting in Dallas and the filmmaking Coen brothers scouting Central Texas as a location for their version of True Grit .

The most surprising and disappointing aspect of our politics is how little pushback there has been against the vile, extremist rhetoric that has characterized such a large part of the anti-Obama movement.

His voice has a drone-like quality, and he admits he's not the most television-friendly politician in Texas.

DAVE LIEBER The Watchdog is grateful this Thanksgiving season for so many people who stood up and fought back in 2009.

Led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the study involved detailed observations of the rewiring processes that take place in the brain during motor learning.

Nov. 26, 2009 COMMENTARY: A Thanksgiving Revival By Nathan Tabor This past year has been a tough one for many, if not most, Americans.

While the U.S. Senate considers a climate bill aiming to dramatically slash air pollution linked to global warming, Texas Gov.

Professor Rochelle Buffenstein holds a naked mole rat Oct. 21 at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.

The historic Texan Theatre in downtown Hamilton was destroyed Friday night by a raging fire that also damaged adjacent buildings.

A driver has entered a guilty plea in a case in which his murder suspect passenger died in a shootout that left a Texas trooper wounded.

Authorities say a truck carrying illegal immigrants from Guatemala and Mexico has plummeted more than 40 feet off a cliff in southwest Texas.

A slight chance of rain was forecast in parts of Texas on Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.

BY BILL HOBBY In Texas, the law is clear. Governing bodies must conduct the people's business in public or else face some serious penalties.

The approach of a new decade means a chance for a fresh start with your financial habits.

The Pentagon's decision to shift the production of Army trucks from Texas to Wisconsin after 17 years caught Texas' elected officials by surprise, raising questions about overconfidence, a loss of political clout and the impact of economic incentives provided to the winning company by Wisconsin's Democratic governor.

Four people traveling from Austin to East Texas were killed Thursday night when the van they were traveling in collided with an 18-wheeler, according to the Lufkin Daily News .

Nov. 25, 2009 - Physicians at UT Southwestern Medical Center soon will begin implanting a new device designed to improve breathing in patients with upper spinal-cord injuries or other diseases that keep them from breathing independently.

Kay Bailey Hutchison said Wednesday that she made a mistake by supporting the initial $700 billion bailout of the nation's financial industry and would change her vote if she had the chance.

Donny Osmond was declared the new champion of "Dancing With Stars" on Tuesday night, taking home the show's mirror ball trophy in the season finale of the ABC contest reality program.

After your turkey is eaten and you've had your nap tomorrow, it's time to start getting your game plan together for some 'Black Friday' shopping.

Retail gasoline prices remained largely stable going across Texas going into the Thanksgiving Day holiday this week.

While the U.S. Senate considers a climate bill aiming to dramatically slash air pollution linked to global warming, Texas Gov.

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Texas' schools of education generally are doing a poor job of training prospective teachers, according to a preliminary study already drawing scorn from many college deans.

CHICAGO a ' There's still family, turkey and football, but one Thanksgiving tradition is taking a hit this year.

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said Tuesday that if elected governor, her education plan would focus on bringing more technology to the classroom, recruiting and retaining teachers, lowering the high school dropout rate and helping school districts find ways to save money.

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Nov.

In East Texas, beef producers began feeding hay or other supplemental feed. In Henderson County , as in many parts of the state, producers were trying to finish a final cutting of hay in front of rain and frost, said Rich Hirsch, AgriLife Extension agent based in Athens.

Why wait until you get to grandmother's house to start cooking when you can make the whole dinner from the heat of your car engine on the way? That's basically the idea behind Manifold Destiny , the guide to cooking on your car engine.

Beaumont-based retailer Conn's Inc. is required to reform its business practices and establish a $4.5 million restitution fund for its customers under an agreement announced Tuesday with the Texas Attorney General's office.

A former condominium owner and Southern Methodist University officials have settled a four-year property dispute involving the site of George W. Bush 's presidential library, both parties announced Tuesday.

In this August 17, 2009 file photo, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, R-Texas, comments during a news conference officially announcing her candidacy for Texas governor in La Marque, Texas.

The $500 bonuses that about 25,000 retired educators and state workers in Texas were supposed to get won't happen because legislators improperly appropriated the funds.

An undated police handout photo of Thomas Andrew Reid, a Canadian musician who was killed in Texas Nov.

BY GORDON DICKSON A Southlake man has been picked to help make Texas more competitive in the race for federal dollars to build a high-speed rail system.William "Bill" Glavin was selected to serve as director of the Texas Department of Transportation's new rail division.Read more on Gordon Dickson's Honkin' Mad traffic blog.

Students at the University of North Texas have rejected a proposal that would have allowed the election of same-sex couples to the schools homecoming court next year.

Fort Worth Democrat Tom Schieffer has decided to end his bid for governor of Texas, The Dallas Morning News has learned.

The USS Texas, a 377-foot, Virginia-class, fast attack submarine, is scheduled to arrive at its new home port of Pearl Harbor today at 3 p.m. The arrival of the Texas in Pearl Harbor marks the second Virginia-class sub to be stationed in the Pacific, following the arrival of the USS Hawaii in July.

An attorney for Texas oil mogul Oscar Wyatt said Friday that a pending lawsuit accusing Wyatt of indirectly funding Hamas terrorists could have wide-ranging ramifications for the U.S. oil industry.

I'm not sure how to tell you this so I'll just come right out and say it. Your marriage is a sham and you've been living a lie.

Textbooks could be going the way of slide rules and Big Chief tablets within a few years in Texas classrooms.

Three Texas cities and city council members from 18 others are planning a new challenge to state law requiring open government meetings.

Total nonagricultural employment in Texas increased by 41,700 positions in October with significant increases in Professional and Business Services and Education and Health Services.

Starting in August 2011, smoking will be banned at the University of Texas at Arlington, President James Spaniolo said Friday.

East Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc. announced today that it will receive $65 million in Clean Renewable Energy Bonds to help fund construction of the Lake Livingston Hydroelectric Project, and to assist in the construction of a biomass plant in Woodville, Texas.

By JAY ROOT AUSTIN - Republican activist Cathie Adams has almost made a career out of stirring things up.

Rain was forecast across Texas on Friday, according to the National Weather Service.

This Bexar County Sheriff's Office 2007 booking file photo shows Capt. Michael Fontana after he was arrested for racing on a highway in San Antonio.

Governor Rick Perry and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison DALLAS a ' Texas Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen.

A strong low pressure system that developed over the Southern Plains continued to spin over the western Gulf of Mexico.

A man who spent two months in a coma at an Austin hospital awoke to discover he was a crime victim.

A nationwide review of about 1,000 employers to check for the hiring of illegal immigrants will include more than 160 businesses in Texas.

A group that made the first $10,000 private donation to rebuild the fire-gutted Texas Governor's Mansion is opposed to changing its look.

AUSTIN a 'The Texas unemployment rate rose slightly in October while the state bucked a yearlong trend by adding jobs, as well.

Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden is returning to the campus of the University of Texas at Austin where the acting bug led her to earn a degree.

The bonfire collapse at Texas A&M University killed Carolyn Adams' daughter, Miranda.

With budget problems mounting for many Texas school districts, the next governor is likely to inherit a funding system that experts say has become a legal and financial quagmire.

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's decision not to resign her Senate seat, until after the March primaries, could throw a wrench in the GOP ballot.

A condemned prisoner who volunteered for execution and in recent weeks changed his mind is hoping a court spares him from a trip to the Texas death chamber.

Associated Press November 19, 2009 HOUSTON - Texas retail gasoline prices slipped 3 cents as travelers prepare for next week's Thanksgiving holiday.

The fate of a man facing execution Thursday evening for his role in a fatal robbery is in the hands of Gov.

The George W. Bush Presidential Center will tip its hat to the former president's home state, from the pecan wood paneling inside to the wildflowers, bluebonnets and prairie outside.

A condemned prisoner who volunteered for execution but in recent weeks changed his mind hoped a court would spare him from a trip to the Texas death chamber Wednesday evening.

Five members of the board of directors of the Texas Panhandle Heritage Foundation today announced their resignation, citing a disagreement with 10 other board members who voted to dismiss the organizationa s executive director last week.

A condemned killer who prosecutors said had been faking mental illness to avoid execution won a reprieve from a federal judge less than two hours before he could have been taken to the Texas death chamber Tuesday evening.

A somber candlelight vigil marked by both silence and song commemorated the 10th anniversary early Wednesday of a bonfire collapse that killed 12 people at Texas A&M University.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney stumped Tuesday for Kay Bailey Hutchison, who was late to her rally because of a Senate vote.

From Abilene down to Galveston, there are thousands of jobs across Texas up for grabs.

Texas has 45 days to rework its plan to spend the second round of $1.7 billion in Hurricane Ike federal recovery funds.

The Texas Department of Public Safety is warning parents across the state to be aware of efforts by Mexican cartels and transnational gangs to recruit Texas youth in our schools and communities.

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With the Texas population expected to nearly double over the next 50 years, lawmakers and water experts gathered Monday to convey an important message: We're running out of water.

The Fort Hood shooting suspect made or accepted wire transfers with Pakistan, a country wracked by Muslim extremist violence.

The flock is the only naturally occurring whooping crane population in the world.

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Overturned convictions and growth of DNA forensic evidence shake state's rock-solid faith in capital punishment Even in Texas they are having their doubts.

There were no doctors, no patients or even a floor at a medical office on the city's south side, but to Hidalgo County's largest hospital system it was reputedly worth lease payments of $8,000 a month.

It seemed like a given that Mario Rodas would go to college. The Guatemalan-born student certainly had the academic credentials, going from English as a second language classes to taking advanced placement exams for college credit his senior year at Chelsea High School.

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is in the midst of a battle with Gov. Rick Perry for Texas governor.

Texas Governor Rick Perry replaced the head and some members of the Texas Forensic Science Commission in September, and some are crying foul -- CNN, for example .

Jeff Burrows, a 37-year-old airline flight dispatcher from Dallas, placed a time of one hour, 26 minutes and 12 seconds.

Republican Gov. Rick Perry, seeking re-election with a down-home Texas message, took on the role of world traveler this year, making a dozen cross-country or international trips and ringing up tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer-funded security costs.

Here is video of Texas Gov. Rick Perry saying the Obama Administrations is "hell-bent on taking America towards a socialist country.' Perry told an audience that Obama's Administration is seeking to "punish" the state of Texas by trucking illegal aliens caught along the border in California and Arizona to the small town of Presidio, Texas and ...

KIEL, Wis. - When Staff Sgt. Amy Krueger joined the U.S. Army Reserves after the 2001 terrorist attacks, she vowed to hunt down Osama bin Laden.

Released by Jean Dark with DPS: For the first time in its 74-year-history, the Department of Public Safety will hold a special 10-week recruit school for current Texas law enforcement officers who are interested in becoming Texas Highway Patrol troopers.

When Lilli Lackey started college, talk of a growing teacher shortage gave her confidence that a job would be waiting for her when she got out.

Authorities say a Texas woman lied about having breast cancer and spent $10,000 raised at a benefit to have her breasts enlarged.

Retail gasoline prices in Texas have fallen 4 cents since last week after climbing steadily for a month.

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is planning to hold onto her Senate seat until after Texas' March gubernatorial primaries are over.

What should be Gov. Rick Perry's time to shine and shore up support for an unprecedented third term has turned lately into a series of missteps and accidents that are rare for such an experienced politician.

The University of Texas Board of Regents has appointed Robert S. Nelsen as the eighth president of the University of Texas-Pan American.

While Texas maintains a firm grip on the dubious title of the nation's most prolific industrial polluter, an environmental group's report Thursday found that wind power and other cleaner energy sources have helped cut emissions linked to global warming in the state.

While Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Phoenix gets all the media attention for his crackdown on illegal immigrants, eight deputies in an unremarkable office at the Harris County Jail are posting similar numbers for deportation -- and doing so without controversy.

More than a month after the swine flu vaccine began arriving in Texas, the doses are still showing up in piecemeal fashion, frustrating many doctors who can't tell their patients exactly when the vaccine will arrive.

Texas GOP Gov. Rick Perry accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of 'punishing' Texas and being 'hell-bent' on turning the United States into a socialist country.

West Texas cotton producer Steve Smith continued to harvest Wednesday, happy that the weather on this end of the growing season is far better than its beginning.

Otty Sanchez got six weeks in a state mental hospital after she was found wandering around a drug store last year, shopping for an imaginary trip to China.She got a few hours in an emergency room, then a ride home, in July as a new mom hearing dark voices.Three-week-old Scott Wesley Buchholz-Sanchez was dead six days later, decapitated and missing ...

Members of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee are trying to figure out if an innocent man was sent to death row because of bad forensic science.

A medical examiner in Texas believes she has found another victim of a serial killer who terrorized Houston in the early 1970s.Sharon Derrick with the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office said Wednesday that the body of Joseph Allen Lyles was identified through DNA analysis.

Elected officials and business leaders from along the Texas-Mexico border are calling for $6 billion in new funding for infrastructure and technology.

Some state legislators who are concerned about how to pay for new highways in Texas have suggested the possibility of increasing the 20 cents a gallon state fuel tax.

Texas came up $1 billion short of fiscal 2009 projections for sales tax and natural gas tax collections during the recession.

U.S. District Judge Randy Crane sentenced Roel Cavazos, 43, to four years and Rogelio Cavazos, 71, to three years for their scheme to buy high-powered handguns in the U.S. and resell them in Mexico for $700 to $800 profit per gun.

Legislators will consider duties of a revamped forensic commission and the status of the case of executed convicted killer Cameron Todd Willingham.

Governor Rick Perry gave the keynote address at the 25th annual Texas Renewables conference in South Austin Monday.

Share + Nov 9, 2009 9:37 am US/Central FORT HOOD, Texas 1 of 3 Major Nidal Malik Hasan, seen in this undated photo, is accused of killing 13 people in a shooting spree at Ft.

A Cuban-born Texas inmate man identified by officials as a ranking member of a Hispanic Texas prison gang has exhausted his appeals.

Texas authorities are trying to figure out how a 16-year-old may have gotten a loaded handgun past officers at a juvenile detention center in Houston.Guards at the Harris County Juvenile Detention Center discovered the gun about two hours after the youth was booked for marijuana possession Monday morning.Juvenile Probation Department director ...

Authorities say two north Texas residents died when the experimental airplane they were in crashed shortly after takeoff.

Representatives from Texas' cattle industry recently discussed future research and educational partnerships related to fever ticks at a summit hosted by the Texas AgriLife Extension Service.

Gov. Rick Perry told renewable energy industry officials that a cap-and-trade climate bill in Congress would increase taxes and devastate Texas' energy sector.

The personal Web site for a radical American imam living in Yemen who had contact with two 9/11 hijackers is praising alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj.

Everything, they say, is bigger in the Texas. So it is with the failure of the health care system.

By MARIA RECIO WASHINGTON - Even if the House votes today on the healthcare overhaul bill, Rep.

Sgt. Anthony Sills, right, comforts his wife as they wait outside the Fort Hood Army Base near Killeen, Texas on Thursday, Nov.

ELDORADO, Texas - The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following last year's raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texas was convicted Thursday of sexually assaulting an underage girl with whom he had a so-called "spiritual marriage." Raymond Jessop, 38, didn't visibly react when the verdict was read after just more than ...

From glittering beaded flapper dresses to silky pantsuits meant for entertaining at home, a new exhibit celebrates a time when women bobbed their hair, ventured out to speakeasies and dared to shorten their hemlines.

As the sun rose, the sky over Killeen was overcast this morning, setting the mood for a community still in shock over the shooting massacre at Fort Hood less than two days earlier.

The military of Saturday released the following list of the people killed Thursday when a gunman fire at Fort Hood, Texas.

A doctor says shooting victims from Fort Hood are improving. And Gov. Rick Perry visits the wounded from the Fort Hood shooting, at a hospital in Temp ...

Source: Published: First responders walk out to a news conference at Fort Hood in Texas Nov.

Two years after the remains of a toddler who came to be known as "Baby Grace" were dumped in Galveston Bay, the child's stepfather was convicted of capital murder in her beating death.

According to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, at the top of the list to receive H1N1 "swine flu" vaccinations are: Pregnant women; Those who care for infants under 6 months of age; Health care and EMS workers; Those ranging from 6 months through 24 years of age; and 25- to 64-year-olds with underlying medical conditions.

State Rep. Chuck Hopson says he's leaving the Democratic Party and becoming a Republican.

" Gov. Rick Perry today issued the following statement regarding the shootings at Fort Hood: "The Texas family suffered a significant loss today with the tragedy at Fort Hood.

Twelve people were killed and 31 were wounded by at least one gunman who opened fire on the grounds of Fort Hood Army Base in Texas, the U.S. military said.

A man convicted of using a rifle to fatally beat and shoot an East Texas man during a burglary almost 12 years ago has been executed.

Dr. Al Armendariz, a Southern Methodist University engineering professor who has sharply criticized federal and state regulators for not cracking down hard enough on North Texas air polluters, has been named the Environmental Protection Agency's new regional administrator over Texas and four other states.

Flames blazed more than 400 feet high above a natural gas line explosion that rocked Bushland, Texas... Flames blazed more than 400 feet high above a natural gas line explosion that rocked Bushland, Texas about 1 a.m. Thursday Nov.

A soldier opened fire at a U.S. Army base in Fort Hood, Texas on Thursday, unleashing a stream of gunfire that left 12 people dead and 31 wounded.

The Fort Worth Police Department will release an internal investigation Thursday on the conduct of its officers during a raid on a gay bar.

FBI Director Robert Mueller will be in Texas visiting the agency's field offices in Houston and San Antonio.

Texas is $7 million richer after the buyer of a winning Lotto Texas ticket didn't claim the prize by the deadline.

Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday the elections of Republican governors in New Jersey and Virginia this week signal dissatisfaction with policies in Washington.

A Marine from Texas serving in Afghanistan has been killed. The Defense Department says 26-year-old Sgt.

A wealthy Houston businessman says he will use $10 million of his own money in his Democratic primary bid for governor.

Texas spent $300 million on merit pay for teachers in the past three years in an effort that led to few gains by students.

A couple of months ago, the agricultural situation in his district was rather dire, said Dr.

A group of online travel services companies plans to appeal a $20 million verdict awarded to more than 170 Texas cities in a dispute over hotel occupancy taxes.

Texas voters were deciding Tuesday whether to approve 11 state constitutional amendments, among them propositions to limit eminent domain power, guarantee public beach access and help fund more top-tier research universities.

UTA spokeswoman Kristin Sullivan says there were no injuries and no fire at the building where the alarm sounded around 9:15 p.m. Monday.

Attorneys for a 67-year-old man say the Texas Lottery has told him they consider a store clerk the rightful winner of a $1 million jackpot.

By The Associated Press Eleven proposed constitutional amendments go before Texas voters in the Nov.

A state district judge has declared a 16-year-old boy competent for trial in the fatal classroom stabbing of a Texas special education teacher.

Gov. Rick Perry is bashing Washington-style health care fixes, but he isn't saying whether Texas should refuse federal incentives for insuring more people if given the chance.

With more than 1.7 million military veterans in Texas and just nine Veterans Affairs hospitals, long drives are not uncommon in the Rio Grande Valley and some other parts of the state with large veteran populations.

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday refused appeals from three Texas death row inmates, one of whom is scheduled for execution later this month.

In this March 25, 2005 file photo, steam released from the BP oil refinery floats across part of the plant in Texas City, Texas.

As Texas begins hiring hundreds of food stamp workers to help erase an application backlog that has left families waiting months for aid, no one expects the problems to disappear any time soon.

Even though it was 65 years ago, Al Tortolano clearly recalls the one thought, the only thought, that ran through his mind as his military unit was surrounded by German soldiers during World War II.

A document containing the names of more than two dozen members of the U.S. House of Representatives who are being scrutinized for conduct violations is starting to get widely distributed over the Internet after being leaked on a peer-to-peer network earlier this week.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine.

Robert Earl Keen recently released The Rose Hotel album. Robert Earl Keen Gym Class Heroes are returning to western New York It was fellow Texan Steve Earle who talked Robert Earl Keen into moving to Nashville to become an important songwriter in the '80s, back when Texans were all the rage.

A West Texas sect leader accused of having two dozen wives was sentenced to 15 months of probation on unrelated charges as part of a plea deal in which the bigamy case was dropped, authorities said.