Brenham News

Advanced practice nurses and physician assistants under the supervision of a physician may soon have broader authority to prescribe controlled substances, after the House gave preliminary approval on Tuesday to the so-called "scope-of-practice" bill.

Less than a week after brazen thieves made off with more than $12,000 in prescription drugs from a Brenham pharmacy, investigators have few leads to go on.

Good morning and welcome to my weekly weather report on the immediate past, present and future of weather in the Bayou City.

The Overton 127a variety of 1806 Draped Bust half dollar is characterized by the heavy die break at the star 6 position shown by the arrow on this recently identified example.

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH is in effect for Grimes, Liberty, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Waller, and Walker Counties until 7AM Saturday.

A conservative measure that would have created an affirmative defense to prosecution for pot possession for seriously ill Texas patients has died in a House committee without being called up for a vote.

Gov. Rick Perry speaks with a reporter on Feb. 21, 2012, a month after dropping his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

A woman who surfaced 11 years after disappearing and leaving behind her young children is doing OK but "had a real traumatic time," her mother said Thursday.

Oklahoma linebacker Alex Elkins was a baseball and rugby star in high school and didn't start playing football until college.

A Hempstead man and former caretaker at the Brenham State Supported Living Center is sentenced to two years in prison for Injury to a Disabled Individual, a second degree felony.

Rep. Lois Kolkhorst is fiercely focused on the numbers when it comes to whether the state should expand Medicaid, but the chart-wielding dynamo was solemn when confronted with one of the many faces behind the figures.

Rep. Lois Kolkhorst is riding point for the red team that is trying to keep Texas from doing the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare.

It is bluebonnet season in Texas, when hayfields and grazing pastures are transformed into seas of indigo bloom.

Two students advance to state spelling meet Two Jasper High School students are headed to the state UIL Academics contest after placing at Saturday's Regional Spelling competition at Blinn College in Brenham.

After the discovery that the state was spending millions of dollars on fraudulent Medicaid dental and orthodontic care, state lawmakers held hearings ahead of the legislative session to identify what went wrong and how to prevent future fraud.

Some much needed rain is heading to parts of southeast Texas as a cool front pushes through late Tuesday, said KHOU 11 News Meteorologist Mario Gomez.