Rising crude oil prices and stagnant gasoline demand are combining to push some small gas stations into insolvency, the owner of a petroleum distribution company in Texas told a House committee on Wednesday.

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Military authorities say two pilots have died in a jet crash at Sheppard Air Force base.

A former police officer suspected in the fatal shooting of a state trooper killed himself in Texas on Thursday as authorities closed in on his location, officials said.

A Dallas man who spent more than 27 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit was freed Tuesday, after being incarcerated longer than any other wrongfully convicted U.S. inmate cleared by DNA testing.

A statewide search was under way Wednesday for a suspect in the overnight shooting death of a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper in East Texas.

State officials are telling legislators that they are looking at the possible sexual abuse of some young boys taken from the polygamist sect's ranch in west Texas.

An Arlington school bus carrying more than two dozen elementary school students flipped on its side Monday after being struck by a sport utility vehicle that ran a red light, police said.

Texas child welfare officials on Monday released statistics on the children taken into state custody from a polygamist sect's ranch in West Texas.

A convicted steroids dealer says he sold steroids and human growth hormone to a former Dallas Cowboys offensive lineman, according to a published report.

Continental Airlines Inc. said Sunday it would not pursue a combination with another carrier right away, a surprising move after weeks of growing speculation that it would join with United Airlines to create the world's biggest airline.

A congressional panel on Monday will hear about a plan to limit the federal Homeland Security Department's ability to speed up the process of building a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Some students at a historically black university are wondering why an investigation by the office of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott into alleged voting rights violations is still not finished.
Abbott's office began its probe in December 2006 after allegations were made that about 300 students at Prairie View A&M University had to cast provisional ballots when their names were not on voting lists.

A 19-year-old illegal immigrant shot to death by a U.S. Border Patrol agent four years ago was nothing more than a scared kid, a lawyer for the family suing the government told a judge Friday.
"It was five agents and a scared 19-year-old boy with a pipe," Enrique Moreno argued in his closing argument of the federal civil trial in the death of Juan Patricio Peraza. "Those agents ... knew the rules."

All their lives, the girls in the polygamist sect in the West Texas desert were told that the outside world was hostile and immoral, and that venturing beyond the brilliant white limestone walls of their compound would consign them to eternal damnation.
Now, if the state gets its way, hundreds of the girls could be put in foster homes, in what could be a wrenching cultural adjustment that may require intensive counseling.

A 41-year-old woman died and a 5-year-old was hospitalized after a cement truck flipped onto a sport-utility vehicle.

First lady Laura Bush visited with children at a Dallas charter school Thursday about a program that teaches kids about nature through planting and gardening projects.

The cloistered world of the YFZ Ranch outside Eldorado, Texas, was turned upside down beginning a week ago when state authorities began taking custody of children after a 16-year-old girl called a local family violence shelter to report her 50-year-old husband beat and raped her at the polygamist compound.
Since then, 416 children have been removed and have been joined voluntarily by 139 women, all them now housed at two sites in San Angelo, about 40 miles from the ranch and 200 miles west of San Antonio.
Here are some questions put Thursday to Marleigh Meisner, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, the agency now caring for the women and children, and John J. Sampson, a University of Texas law professor who teaches the Children Right's Clinic, which provides legal representation for abused and neglected children in Travis County.

A Houston grand jury has indicted three South Texas employees of the Texas Department of Transportation on bribery charges.