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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.

Laura Bush soon will no longer live in the country's most famous mansion or be able to get away to the coveted Camp David presidential retreat.

For years, John Sealy Hospital at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has been known as the hospital of last resort for the uninsured and indigent in Texas.

A photo provided by Rockies Express Pipeline, LLC, showing a natural gas pipeline that is being constructing near Cheyenne, Wyo., near the Colo.

More rain was forecast for parts of Texas on Friday with a 50 percent chance along the Gulf Coast and a 60 percent chance in North Texas, according to the National Weather Service.

More than 2,000 gallons of gasoline spilled from a tank Friday at the same East Texas refinery where an explosion last week killed one worker and injured five.

If there were a hunger index, it would be at an all-time high. As stock market indexes like the Dow Jones industrial average have plummeted, the number of Americans seeking help to stave off hunger is ...

FLORIDA Endeavour leaves space station Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven departed the International Space Station on Friday, ending a 12-day visit that left the orbiting complex with more modern ...

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The rulings came from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin. A Harris County jury decided in 1989 that Robert Mitchell Jennings should die for the fatal shooting a year earlier of Houston vice cop ...

Last summer, visions of tax rebates danced in the heads of Republican leaders at the mere mention of an $11 billion state budget surplus.

Pet in a pit? A drug bust at a home in South Texas led to the discovery of a 7-foot-long alligator in a pit topped by wire.

Texas is to receive $1.3 billion in federal money to help with recovery from Hurricane Ike.

A state district judge has reversed a $16.2 million judgment against a fraternity sued by the parents of a pledge who died in an alleged alcohol-related hazing incident at the University of Texas.

The University of Texas System, under fire from open government advocates, is defending its decision to meet in secret to discuss massive layoffs at a Galveston facility struggling to recover from the financial ...

The federal government will pay Hurricane Ike debris-removal costs in Texas for six more months, but Gov. Rick Perry's office said the extension is inadequate.

The Bush administration late Wednesday announced the extension of 100 percent cleanup payments for areas devastated by the Sept. 13 hurricane.

Perry has criticized the federal government's response to debris removal, which Texas officials have estimated will costs as much as $2 billion.

'The federal government's announcement to provide only a small fraction of the assistance Texas requested is unacceptable,' governor's spokeswoman Allison Castle said in an e-mail. 'The governor made a very reasonable request, that Texas be treated no less than Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, and this doesn't even come close.'

Former first lady Barbara Bush was resting and in good spirits in a Houston hospital Wednesday morning following surgery for a perforated ulcer, a family spokesman said.

Bush, who was visiting with family members, probably will remain in Methodist Hospital until next week, family spokesman Jim McGrath said in a statement.

The laparoscopic surgery, a minimally invasive procedure involving a small incision in the abdomen, was Tuesday night. Surgeons cleansed her abdominal area and closed a one-centimeter hole caused by the ulcer, McGrath said.

Bush went to the hospital as a precaution Tuesday night after experiencing some abdominal pains. Former President George H.W. Bush was with her.

"She's feeling great, and he is feeling very good," said Jim Appleby, a spokesman for the Office of George Bush. "The surgery went just fine and she is recovering nicely."

Current first lady Laura Bush, Barbara Bush's daughter-in-law, said Wednesday: "She's doing great. George and I talked to both President Bush and Barbara Bush last night while they were in the hospital and they were both doing very well then."

Interviewed on ABC's "Good Morning America," Laura Bush said the White House doctor had spoken to Barbara Bush's doctor Wednesday morning and "she's doing very well."

Barbara Bush is 83.

The former Barbara Pierce, daughter of the publisher of McCall's magazine, married George H.W. Bush in January 1945 when he returned a hero from World War II.

She was the girl who, swept off her feet by a handsome Navy aviator, dropped out of college to marry him, "the first man I ever kissed."

They had had their first child, George, while still at Yale in 1946. A daughter, Robin, died in 1953 of leukemia a few weeks before her 4th birthday. The other Bush children are sons Jeb, Neil and Marvin, and daughter Dorothy.

Mrs. Bush disclosed she was suffering from an overactive thyroid ailment known as Graves' disease when she lived at the White House. The disease causes teary eyes and double vision in Mrs. Bush, according to her doctors.

Former first lady Barbara Bush was resting and in good spirits in a Houston hospital Wednesday morning following surgery for a perforated ulcer, a family spokesman said.

Bush, who was visiting with family members, probably will remain in Methodist Hospital until next week, family spokesman Jim McGrath said in a statement.

The laparoscopic surgery, a minimally invasive procedure involving a small incision in the abdomen, was Tuesday night. Surgeons cleansed her abdominal area and closed a one-centimeter hole caused by the ulcer, McGrath said.

Bush went to the hospital as a precaution Tuesday night after experiencing some abdominal pains. Former President George H.W. Bush was with her.

"She's feeling great, and he is feeling very good," said Jim Appleby, a spokesman for the Office of George Bush. "The surgery went just fine and she is recovering nicely."

Current first lady Laura Bush, Barbara Bush's daughter-in-law, said Wednesday: "She's doing great. George and I talked to both President Bush and Barbara Bush last night while they were in the hospital and they were both doing very well then."

Interviewed on ABC's "Good Morning America," Laura Bush said the White House doctor had spoken to Barbara Bush's doctor Wednesday morning and "she's doing very well."

Barbara Bush is 83.

The former Barbara Pierce, daughter of the publisher of McCall's magazine, married George H.W. Bush in January 1945 when he returned a hero from World War II.

She was the girl who, swept off her feet by a handsome Navy aviator, dropped out of college to marry him, "the first man I ever kissed."

They had had their first child, George, while still at Yale in 1946. A daughter, Robin, died in 1953 of leukemia a few weeks before her 4th birthday. The other Bush children are sons Jeb, Neil and Marvin, and daughter Dorothy.

Mrs. Bush disclosed she was suffering from an overactive thyroid ailment known as Graves' disease when she lived at the White House. The disease causes teary eyes and double vision in Mrs. Bush, according to her doctors.

A tame deer known as Mr. Buck has been found beheaded at a wildlife sanctuary in Houston.

The remains of the child-friendly deer were discovered Tuesday at Bear Creek Pioneers Park. A bloodhound was used to try to track the killer.

Harris County Commissioner Steve Radack says anyone who attacks an animal in captivity "is just the lowest of the low."

Authorities say someone cut through a remote fence to reach the animal, taking the deer's head and antlers. The carcass was left behind.

Taxidermy shops in the Houston area were being advised about the crime.

Charges including felony animal cruelty and poaching could be pursued against any suspects.