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Her fellow job seekers offer knowing groans as Diane Castro recalls the day she was laid off: The fear of being summoned to the front office.

Giant 'Tea Party' Slated For Southfork On The 4th Share + Jul 3, 2009 6:36 am US/Central Giant 'Tea Party' Slated For Southfork On The 4th DALLAS Organizers of America's Tea Party hope to attract 50,000 people to Southfork Ranch on the Fourth of July.

East Texas authorities have arrested a man on a capital murder charge in the 1995 death of a woman whose body parts were found in the Sabine River.

Major League Baseball has loaned millions to Texas Rangers owner Tom Hicks, Yahoo! reported.

A Southeast Texas woman and her husband are in a Southeast Texas jail today after authorities found a six children locked and unsupervised in tool shed behind their daycare center.

The House has passed a bill to keep a few important state agencies operating. The measure has already been approved by the Senate and will next head to Gov.

James M. Davis, the chief lieutenant of R. Allen Stanford , will plead guilty to fraud and conspiracy after reaching an agreement to cooperate with prosecutors in their case against the Texas billionaire, his lawyer said on Wednesday.

In one especially soul-baring e-mail to his Argentine mistress, South Carolina Gov.

The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is investigating its joint raid with Fort Worth police on a gay bar that left one man hospitalized with a head injury.

Police used a Taser on a pastor and pepper spray to disperse his congregants Wednesday after the pastor allegedly interfered with a traffic stop in the church parking lot.

With Gov. Rick Perry stuck in Austin overseeing a special session of the Legislature, Sen.

Share + Jul 1, 2009 12:03 pm US/Central Texas lawmakers have convened the special legislative session in Austin.

Prosecutors say Texas financier R. Allen Stanford's bond should be revoked because his international ties make him a serious flight risk.

Head coach Billy Gillispie answered questjions at UK Basketball Media Day in the Memorial Coliseum media room on the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington, Ky.

Get in, get out and leave town in time for the July 4 holiday. That's what Texas Gov.

Texas linebacker Sergio Kindle was treated for a concussion after crashing his car into an Austin apartment building last week while he was either sending or receiving a text message, his attorney said Monday.

U.S. immigration officials say more than 100 street gang members have been arrested during days-long sweeps throughout Texas.

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers are conducting two pilot clinical trials to determine whether a single, early dose of estrogen can improve survival and neurological outcomes after severe traumatic brain injury or traumatic hemorrhagic shock.

More than two years ago, a pair of former administrators at a remote West Texas juvenile prison were indicted on charges accusing them of sexually preying on teenage boys at the facility - a development hailed by the state's attorney general as a first step toward justice in a statewide scandal.

Gov. Rick Perry is being pressed to add issues ranging from children's health care to voter identification to the agenda of the special session that begins Wednesday, but his answer is still no.