State mobilizes resources ahead of Dolly
HARLINGEN, Texas — Gov. Rick Perry declared 14 South Texas counties disaster areas Tuesday and deployed a variety of state assets in anticipation of Hurricane Dolly making landfall and dumping what forecasters expect will be more than 15 inches of rain.
July 23, 2008

North Richland Hills man who called 911 pleads guilty to killing wife
FORT WORTH, Texas — A North Richland Hills man has pleaded guilty to murder over the death of his wife in a shooting he reported in a 911 call.
July 22, 2008

Former Texas Southern student was FBI informant
HOUSTON — A former Texas Southern University student testified that he was paid $5,000 by the FBI to tape university officials in the midst of a corruption investigation.
July 22, 2008

Governor issues Dolly disaster declaration
AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry has issued a disaster declaration for 14 South Texas counties in advance of Tropical Storm Dolly's arrival.
July 22, 2008

Man rescued from narrow storage hole in Texas
CRESSON, Texas — A man fell 40 feet into a narrow storage hole at a natural gas drilling site Tuesday and was trapped for three hours before getting rescued, officials said.
July 22, 2008

EPA urged to rethink importing PCBs to Port Arthur
HOUSTON — A congressional committee has told the Environmental Protection Agency that letting a Port Arthur incinerator import toxic waste from Mexico would "effectively create an open border" for disposing a banned chemical compound in the United States.
July 22, 2008

Jailing for former sheriff brings suspension
AMARILLO, Texas — A Panhandle lawman has been suspended after allowing a convicted former sheriff to avoid staying in a jail cell.
July 22, 2008

Noriega backs offshore drilling in energy plan
AUSTIN — Democratic Senate candidate Rick Noriega provided details Tuesday of his energy proposal, saying America needs to use renewable energy and find new sources of oil in part through offshore drilling.
July 22, 2008

Pickens heads for Congress to promote wind power
WASHINGTON — Dallas oilman T. Boone Pickens today is expected to make a pitch to Congress -- for wind power.
July 22, 2008

Pickens heads for Congress to promote wind power
WASHINGTON — Dallas oilman T. Boone Pickens today is expected to make a pitch to Congress -- for wind power.
July 22, 2008

Jonas Brothers buy house in Dallas-Fort Worth area
WESTLAKE, Texas — omg! u believe it?
July 22, 2008

Dead man's brain tested for mad cow disease
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The brain of a Corpus Corpus man who died earlier this month was tested for a human form of mad cow disease, health officials said.
July 22, 2008

Suits over drivers' deaths could be tried in 2009
HOUSTON — After much legal wrangling, lawsuits against military contractors over deadly ambushes that killed civilian truck drivers in Iraq could go to trial next year, a federal judge said Tuesday.
July 22, 2008

Texas-based grocery chain issues jalapeno recall
SAN ANTONIO — Grocery chain H-E-B has announced a voluntary recall of products containing fresh jalapenos after government inspectors found a strain of salmonella on a single Mexican-grown jalapeno pepper handled in Texas.
July 22, 2008

Female inmate dies in Austin-area jail
DEL VALLE, Texas — Investigators say foul play is not suspected in the death of a female inmate at an Austin-area jail.
July 22, 2008

Gas pumps cheated drivers, investigation finds
AUSTIN — Texas drivers who recently bought gas at hundreds of Sunmart stations probably were shortchanged, according to results of a state investigation released Tuesday.
July 22, 2008

TV video: woman nabbed after car crash in Temple -- flees again
TEMPLE, Texas — Temple police detained a woman -- twice -- after a chase that ended with a car in some trees and the suspect running away.
July 22, 2008

Woman who admits theft of $1 million gets probation in Austin
AUSTIN — A judge in Austin has ordered ten years of probation for a woman who admits embezzling more than one million dollars from a company.
July 22, 2008

Dennis Quaid tours Dallas hospital
DALLAS — Actor Dennis Quaid, whose twins were given an overdose of a blood thinner as newborns at a California hospital, toured a Dallas hospital to learn more about its system to prevent such errors.
July 22, 2008

Dennis Quaid tours Dallas hospital
DALLAS — Actor Dennis Quaid, whose twins were given an overdose of a blood thinner as newborns at a California hospital, toured a Dallas hospital on Tuesday to learn about a system to prevent such errors.
July 22, 2008