A far-right faction of the Texas State Board of Education succeeded Friday in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, history and economics lessons that will be taught to millions of students for the next decade.

The violent threats are not what bother Michael Mann the most. He's used to them.

A registered Texas sex offender was in custody Friday after a woman who responded to an online ad seeking a singer for a Christian band was harassed and threatened.

A wastewater disposal process done after natural gas extraction - and not the drilling itself - is a plausible cause for the surprising series of minor earthquakes in north Texas, according to a study released Wednesday.

A 6-year-old Texas boy has died after he was thrown from a car that his 14-year-old sister was driving after an argument with her parents.

The latest show at Paris' Quai Branly museum comes with a warning for visitors: "This exhibition of Moche ceramics shows sexual acts of an explicit nature." But the extraordinary and graphic testimonial of the ancient Moche civilization of Peru isn't about physical pleasure or procreation, according to the curator.

A longtime State Board of Education member accused her colleagues of "whitewashing" curriculum standards Thursday and walked out of the panel's meeting in frustration amid heated debates about race and the inclusion of Hispanics in lesson plans.

Kansas is a step closer to expanding passenger rail service in the state, but trains won't start rolling for several years.

Global climate change poses a significant threat to migratory bird populations, which are already stressed by the loss of habitat and environmental pollution, according to a report released Thursday.

The weekly AAA Texas survey released Thursday shows regular unleaded rose an average of 8 cents at Texas pumps to $2.65 per gallon.

Authorities say that it appears that an off-duty state trooper who was shot at the home of another off-duty trooper shot himself.

Food director Jackie Anderson didn't get word last month until it was too late - after students in the Arlington Independent School District already had eaten tacos filled with beef that should have been destroyed.

Too many pregnant women who want to avoid a repeat cesarean delivery are being denied the chance, concludes a government panel that urged doctors to rethink litigation-spurred policies that have swung the pendulum back toward the days of "once a C-section, always a C-section." Fifteen years ago, nearly 3 in 10 women who had a first C-section were ...

AUSTIN The Fox Network in recent days has repeatedly broadcast highly inaccurate information about the State Board of Education's efforts to adopt the new social studies curriculum standards.

By TRACI SHURLEY AUSTIN -- It's pretty safe to say Fox & Friends didn't make any new friends at the Texas Education Agency on Wednesday.The state agency put out a news release about noon, trying to clear up 'inaccuracies' it said the Fox Network show had broadcast that morning.

Former sprinter Marion Jones has signed the WNBA's Tulsa Shock, hoping to launch a new career after losing five Olympic medals for using steroids and doing jail time for lying to federal prosecutors.

The self-dubbed "Jihad Jane" who thought her blond, all-American profile would help mask her plan to kill a Swedish cartoonist is a rare case of a U.S. woman inciting foreign terrorism and shows the latest evolution of the global threat, authorities say.

Texas' state education board, rocked by primary elections that may push the influential panel's far-right leanings toward the center, is set to take its first vote on a new social studies curriculum that could reverberate in classrooms nationwide.

"February weather was somewhat amazing," said Dr. Travis Miller , AgriLife Extension specialist and associate department head of the Texas A&M University soil and crop sciences department.

No one covers University of Texas sports like the American-Statesman beat writers.