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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.

Texas is among the first states to toughen standards for colleges of education and other teacher-training programs amid criticism that too many are "cash cows" that produce weak instructors.

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.