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The Texas Senate is expected to confirm 3 of Gov. Rick Perry's appointments to the University of Texas System regents, positions that are being closely watched as lawmakers have clashed with the board in recent months.

The Houston Texans have donated $100,000 to help in relief efforts in the wake of this week's devastating and deadly tornado in Oklahoma.

The man gunned down Wednesday night in Southlake Town Square in front of dozens of onlookers and his own wife worked as an attorney and has ties to Mexican drug cartels, sources tell News 8. Juan Jesus Guerrero-Chapa, 43, was shopping with his wife just before 7 p.m. Wednesday when a masked man shot and killed him as the couple got into their SUV.

Brad Jones, vice president of commercial operations for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, spoke Thursday at the South Texas Electric Cooperative's annual meeting.

Air Med President Kenneth Ponce said the Hildago County company is a full-time service provider that has already established business in Alice.

A man from Guatemala has pleaded guilty in Texas to illegally crossing the U.S. border and stabbing a Border Patrol dog.

Kids who exercise regularly do better in school, attend more classes, score higher in tests and feel better about themselves.

The appointees have to wait till they are confirmed by the senate before they can begin serving.

A proposal to crack down on the slaughter of sharks for their fins has stalled in the last stages of the state legislature.

Months after state lawmakers elevated a quiet feud with University of Texas System regents into a public spat, the Texas Senate is set to hold a confirmation hearing for new board members with just a week left in the session.

The Texas Workforce Commission said Friday the state unemployment rate for April remains a full point below the national rate of 7.5%. Conversely, the Metropolitan Statistical Area of McAllen-Edinburg-Mission continues to lead the state with an April high of 10.5%. It was followed by Brownsville-Harlingen at 9.9%. The commission says Texas' ... (more)

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Denisse Salinas , reporter for McAllen, TX, Telemundo affiliate KTLM , and photographer JJ Ramos were hospitalized after their news vehicle was struck by a hit and run driver Monday morning.

Contributed photo St. Louis, Mo.'s Abraham Mohler is busy at work on one of his sculptures.

The Texas Department of Public Safety has added Juan Carlos Pena, 48, and Willie L. Sullivan, 57, to the Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender list, and a cash reward up to $3,000 is now offered for information leading to each man's capture.

Nicole D. Perez Publisher-Editor The discovery of artifacts on the property that will house the City of Alice multi-use complex has led to the finding of as many as five additional sites containing artifacts along Highway 281, archeologists said Thursday.

A House panel on Friday scuttled a controversial plan being pushed by Sen. Juan Hinojosa , D-McAllen, to locate the first two years of medical education in Hidalgo County as part of a proposal to create a new mega university in the Rio Grande Valley.

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A South Texas U.S. Border Patrol agent has been arrested on a sexual assault charge after an incident with a woman he was guarding at a Corpus Christi hospital.

Time is running out: RealShare Student Housing comes to Four Seasons Resort and Spa in Dallas on May 13 and 14, 2013.