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Usually out of the national spotlight, state legislative races are taking on new prominence this year.

The proposed environmental friendly funds were approved by referendums this month at the University of Texas and Texas A&M. Students at Texas-El Paso , the University of North Texas, and the University of Texas at San Antonio face similar votes in April.

More than 120 million U.S. census forms begin arriving Monday in mailboxes around the country, in the government's once-a-decade population count that will be used to divvy up congressional seats and more than $400 billion in federal aid.

The way Karl Rove remembers it, he was such a hot political property in Texas in the 1990s even Democrats wanted to hire him.

Governor Rick Perry has appointed former Texas Secretary of State Phil Wilson to the committee that oversees the state's $3 billion cancer research fund.

Gov. Rick Perry insists that his sole political ambition is to serve the people of Texas for another four years, but his triumph over U.S. Sen.

Tension and bitterness continued to divide the State Board of Education on Thursday as more conservative Republicans on the board wielded their voting power to tweak social studies curriculum for about 4.7 million public school children.

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Thousands of Texas Baptists are responding to a nationwide "Buckets of Hope" food drive for earthquake victims in Haiti.

A fugitive Joplin murder suspect has been detained in Texas. Twenty-year-old Byron D. Lang is charged with second-degree murder in the September 2008 death of 2-year-old Kyler DeShawn Jones.

Cell phone use has contributed to thousands of Texas automobile accidents since 2005, according to records obtained by a San Antonio television station through an open-records request.

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.