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In the last months of his administration, President Lyndon Johnson voiced worry over the Vietnam peace talks and stridently suggested that associates of Richard Nixon were attempting to keep South Vietnam away ...

A second man has died from injuries suffered in an oil refinery explosion and fire in Texas.

Bratz dolls headed for extinction Dec. 4: A Federal judge has ordered the company that makes Bratz dolls to stop selling the toys after the holidays, and to destroy any copies retailers may still have, as the ...

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A class ring lost for decades in an East Texas lake is back with its owner after turning up in a fish caught the day after Thanksgiving.

Texas prison administrators are more than doubling to almost $66 million their legislative request to beef up security measures to keep illegal cell phones and other contraband out of state prisons.

In the spirit of a tough economy, holiday decorations from Christmases past are adorning the White House this Christmas.

Gov. Rick Perry and the state comptroller are warning that the national economic crisis is starting to affect state government, but they say Texas is in better position than most states to weather the storm.

For more than a century, thousands of mentally disabled Americans were isolated from society, sometimes for life, by being confined to huge public hospitals.

A study by the Texas Department of Transportation indicates that overall collisions were reduced at dozens of intersections that had red-light cameras installed.

Reyna Martinez, a 30-year-old Honduran immigrant, wanted to help Texas recover from Hurricane Ike and earn a good wage at the same time.

For four weeks, she was transported by bus from her Houston home to Galveston, where she worked 15 hours a day repairing roofs, bailing water and clearing debris from school property.

She was promised $11 an hour, but after the first week, the owner reneged on paying workers. Martinez said many of her co-workers had no place to live and no meals, even though the employer had promised to provide both.

The Dallas Morning News Dec. 2--PHILADELPHIA -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry is meeting this morning with President-elect Barack Obama at Independence Hall, along with 48 other state leaders -- nearly all of them ...

The head of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice said he'll provide the prison system with all the legal resources he can to stop cell phones from reaching inmates.

A Department of Justice investigation into Texas mental institutions has concluded they violate the rights of patients by failing to protect them from harm and provide adequate health care.

A group representing faculty says it plans to file a lawsuit Wednesday asserting the University of Texas System's governing board violated state law when it met behind closed doors before authorizing mass ...

The University of Texas at Austin is naming its Center for American History for former Gov.

Two former Oklahoma governors have urged state officials to reverse course and sell water to thirsty North Texas communities.

SMITH POINT, Texas - A 30-mile scar of debris along the Texas coast stands as a festering testament to what state and local officials say is FEMA's sluggish response to the 2008 hurricane season.

A hospital official says an accident at a holiday parade in east Texas has injured at least nine people, some of them children.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused appeals Monday from two Texas death row inmates, including a Mexican national convicted of gunning down three El Paso teenagers a dozen years ago.