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The state received permanent custody Monday of five of the seven children who authorities said they found in a filthy, rat-infested home where their mother had stored her miscarried fetus in the refrigerator.

Texas lawmakers next week will get their first glimpse of how much the national recession has hit the state.

The abduction of a U.S. anti-kidnap expert in northern Mexico last month remains a mystery with no clues to the man's whereabouts and no ransom demanded by his captors, police said on Monday.

A table piled with donated clothes is being eyed as the potential origin of a fire that killed five people at a Texas homeless shelter, forcing some residents to flee into the cold streets barefoot and coatless.

Fire officials said it was the deadliest fire in 30 years in recent memory in Paris, a town of about 26,000 people about 100 miles northeast of Dallas.

'It went fast,' said Roger Riemer, 49, who has lived at the shelter since September. 'There was quite a few people trying to get it out, but it didn't work. It was just getting too hot. Smoke was billowing out of there so bad. There was nothing we could do.'

The Texas Department of Transportation says the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor is dead in its initial form and that plans for the highway network have been scaled down.

A Texas historical group plans a monument to mark the central Kentucky site of a decisive Confederate victory of the Civil War.

'Big Bopper's' son auctioning Dad's casket Rock 'n' roll's most macabre historical artifact will go on the block when the family of the late 1950s pop star J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson auctions his casket ...

Deborah Norris, whose daughter Heather was killed by her boyfriend, created heathersvoice.net to help girls learn when things are amiss in a relationship.

A newspaper reports that a health care company hired to manage a program for elderly Texans as part of a broad privatization plan was fined more than $1 million by the state in the past year over complaints ...

A San Antonio state senator wants to revive efforts to eliminate the straight-ticket voting option.

Just a dozen years ago, newspapers on either side of Arlington, Texas, fought fiercely for every reader in the fast-growing city, spending millions of dollars to expand their staffs and cover the smallest ...

Wonder whether Texas toll road rage has subsided? Or whether state lawmakers' irritation at the Texas Department of Transportation is easing? The answer came a few days before Christmas: Not so much.

A teenage girl charged with capital murder for her role in the deaths of her mother and two young brothers agreed to a plea deal that could make her eligible for parole when she's 59, her attorney said.

Erin Caffey, 17, accepted the agreement Friday, said defense attorney William McDowell. She had been scheduled to be tried as an adult next month in Hopkins County.

'I think it was a just sentence,' McDowell said. 'Everyone is pleased with it.'

Authorities said Caffey, her boyfriend and two other co-defendants plotted to kill Caffey's parents because they didn't approve of her boyfriend. Caffey was 16 at the time of the crime.

FORT WORTH, Texas A jail in northern Texas has been closed and its nearly 60 inmates transferred as authorities investigate what they call dangerous conditions for jailers and those behind bars - including ...

Republican dissidents selected Rep. Joe Straus of San Antonio on Friday night as their candidate to overthrow long-serving House Speaker Tom Craddick, one of the most powerful leaders in state government.

Texas Sen. John Cornyn said Friday that Republicans would object to seating Democrat Al Franken who holds a 49-vote lead over incumbent Republican Sen.

President George W. Bush, at his Texas ranch, has spoken on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

With 2008 in its last hours, the biggest political battle in Austin for 2009 is already shaping up.