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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.

Democrat Bill White criticized Republican Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday for pressing state agencies to cut their spending by 5 percent, calling the approach "Soviet-style" budget management.

The captain of an 800-foot tanker that collided with a tugboat in a Gulf of Mexico waterway, causing the worst Texas oil spill in 15 years, was apparently unaware until moments before the crash that his ship was too far off course to prevent the collision, according to testimony Tuesday at a Coast Guard hearing.

Breast cancer patients with early stage disease that has spread to only one lymph node may not benefit from radiation after mastectomy, because of the low present-day risk of recurrence following modern surgery and systemic therapy, a finding that could one day change the course of treatment for thousands of women diagnosed each year, according to ...

A south Texas county commissioner has pleaded guilty to two felony counts stemming from her putting illegal immigrants who worked at her home on the county payroll.

The Supreme Court is turning down Texas' attempt to get a death sentence reimposed on a convicted killer who lower courts have found is mentally impaired.

A trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety is hospitalized after a shooting during an east Texas warrant sweep.

That's the projected difference between available revenue and the cost of maintaining services at their current levels.

A helicopter crash during a hunting trip on a ranch in south Texas left the pilot and a passenger dead.

A man walked into a Walmart in Texas carrying at least two guns before engaging in a shootout with police outside the store, authorities said.

California with its massive government and bloated bureaucracy is on the verge of bankruptcy while Texas is booming.

Texas history was set to song Saturday at the Longview Community Center. Historian and balladeer Brian Burns of Arlington presented "Once Upon a Time in Texas," a show he performs at schools around the state.

Before Rick Perry can parlay his tea party-powered victory in the Texas governor's primary into something bigger - a 2012 Republican presidential ticket, perhaps - he'll have to actually win a record-setting, third four-year term.

A Metro commuter train hit a car in Houston, and five people were taken to area hospitals.

People from all over the Metroplex went to Grand Prairie 's city hall Saturday morning to complain about Oncor 's new smart meters.