Snow has been missing in action for much of the United States the past couple of months. But it's not just snow. It's prtactically the entire winter season that's gone...

dmontgomery@star-telegram.com ROUND ROCK -- Gov. Rick Perry declared Monday night that he still has "plenty of fight left" after his unsuccessful presidential bid, serving notice that...

abatheja@star-telegram.com North Texas would get a new congressional district dominated by minority voters under a new set of political maps proposed by the Texas attorney general Monday, but...

At 30, Vest was being medically retired from the Air Force, his career as a special-operations pilot over just as it began to blossom. His health was declining from a rare, incurable neuromuscular...

jrlabbe@star-telegram.com City Manager Tom Higgins cautioned his assistant city managers in a late January memo that the upcoming budget talks aren't going to be much...

Deadline extended The Fort Worth school district has indefinitely extended the deadline for students to apply for the all-boys school. The school opens in August with sixth and seventh grades and...

mitchmitchell@star-telegram.com FORT WORTH -- Twenty-six years after he was convicted of a rape he did not commit, Tim Cole's reputation has been restored, his supporters...

mitchmitchell@star-telegram.com TARRANT COUNTY -- One man was stabbed with a golf club shaft and was "close to death" after a brawl last month at a golf course at Eagle Mountain...

snishimura@star-telegram.com FORT WORTH -- Company representatives presented their latest design for a Walmart Neighborhood Market on the south side Monday night, drawing plaudits for some...

So the court moved to evict Ken Robinson, who drew national attention for his ability to secure access to a vacant home in an affluent Denton County neighborhood by filing an affidavit with the...

It's Friday night, and rain is still drying on the cold concrete outside as the crowd of damp, bedraggled but visibly excited music fans rushes into the Old Dirty Basement at J&J's...

UNT took to the "Twittersphere" on Monday, as students used the popular social media website to tweet questions about campus life to members of the Student Government Association during its...

More than 400,000 babies were born to mothers aged 15 to 19 in the U.S. in 2009, according to the Center for Disease Control. Nearly two-thirds of the pregnancies were unintended, and in 2005, Texas...

North Texas' own homegrown music festival, 35 Denton, is making some changes, including an expanded lineup, new venues and the debut of a new creative director. This spring marks the...

Nicole Balderas / Senior Staff Writer UNT will hold its 12th Annual Equity and Diversity Conference on Tuesday at 10 a.m. in the University Union’s Silver Eagle Suite. Keynote speaker Dan...

HAYS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) - A few hundreds residents in the Dripping Springs area turned out for a town hall meeting Monday night to voice their concerns...

But police say they'll enforce new rules regarding the activity at City Hall. Monday night Occupiers gathered to show they are united in continuing the...

AUSTIN (KXAN) - It has been 20 years since the infamous Yogurt Shop murders and the case is no closer to being closed. At the City of Austin's Public Safety Commission meeting on Monday...

The Texas governor says, "we've got plenty of work to do right here in the state of Texas." He spoke Monday at a Williamson County Republican Party dinner north of...

BURNET COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) - One person is dead after a motorcycle accident in Burnet County on Monday afternoon. The Department of Public Safety said the accident happened just after 4 p.m....

This courtroom sketch shows Former Stanford CFO James Davis, replicating for jurors the handcuffing motion he used to make to warn R. Allen Stanford that what they were doing was illegal Thursday,...

- Turns out, it was no fluke that Occupy Austin's eviction from the front plaza of City Hall was carried out as a "surprise" short-notice maneuver under cover of late-night darkness....

at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar tomorrow at 7 p.m. Luis Buñuel, a premier Spanish filmmaker and cinematic surrealist, is most known to film school students as the director of one of the...

Rick Perry acknowledged Monday that he's not used to losing but also vowed "I'm not slipping off into the sunset" while promising to battle federal energy and environmental...

The law requires doctors to show women images from sonograms, play fetal heartbeats aloud and describe the features of fetuses at least 24 hours before...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) -- J'Covan Brown hit the go-ahead layup with less than a minute remaining and later added a pair of free throws to lift Texas to a 70-68 win over Texas A&M on...

The win is the Longhorns' fifth straight over A&M, and came in the last regular-season Big 12 meeting between these schools with the Aggies leaving for the Southeastern Conference. Brown's...

Kyle Lowry teamed up to score 45 points Monday and the Rockets used accurate long-range shooting to best Denver 99-90. Scola scored 25 points and grabbed eight rebounds while Lowry contributed 20...

Tim Duncan scored 19 points and hauled down 17 rebounds for San Antonio Monday, boosting the Spurs to a 89-84 win over Memphis. Duncan dominated inside with five blocked shots...

'); } ARLINGTON -- The Rangers have put off contract negotiations with Josh Hamilton indefinitely, but they are still working to avoid their first arbitration hearing since 2000. Even so, the...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- A tent city that's among the longest-lived Occupy protest encampments is coming down as part of a new wave of eviction orders against demonstrators aligned with the...

(Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday allowed the state of Texas to begin enforcing a law requiring abortion providers to show or describe to a woman an ultrasound image of her fetus, but criticized...

AUSTIN, Texas – A federal judge on Monday upheld the Texas law requiring women to have a sonogram before having an abortion, saying an appeals court had forced him to declare the law...

ROUND ROCK, Texas – Back on his home turf in the Lone Star State in his first public appearance since leaving the presidential race, Texas Gov. Rick Perry vowed he wouldn’t fade away into...

Drew Hanlen and Mick Hedgepeth scored 13 points apiece for the Bruins (18-7), and Blake Jenkins added 12. Belmont extended its winning streak to five games and stayed within a half-game of Atlantic...

AUSTIN, Texas - A federal judge in Austin said Monday that he could no longer block a Texas law requiring women to have a sonogram before having an abortion because an appeals court had ordered it to...

One of the college's most talked about alumna, Billye Suber Aaron, married to baseball great Hank Aaron, returned to her alma mater last week to urge current students to dream big and go for...

CORPUS CHRISTI -- Whether celebrating the Giants' Super Bowl win or lamenting the Patriots' loss, some local motorists got behind the wheel Sunday after drinking a little too much, police...

CORPUS CHRISTI -- A Nueces County jury awarded a percentage of $7.9 million to a man whose family was killed in an 18-wheeler collision. Tideport Distributing Inc., a Houston-based oil and gas...

CORPUS CHRISTI -- A 51-year-old man was arrested Monday in Robstown by a fugitive task force, wanted in connection with the 2007 shooting of his ex-wife's boyfriend in Harris County. Oscar...

Contributed photo The Border Patrol has placed six rescue beacons throughout ranches in South Texas that can be used to seek help in an...

Starting Monday - US 77, 7 a.m.-6 p.m. through Friday: Single lane closure on southbound US 77 starting at the I-37 connector ramp and ending at County Road 48 for a milling and inlay operation....

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — Police at the University of Texas-Pan American are investigating a "suspicious" death after a woman's body was found near an outdoor staircase of a campus...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Jury selection is beginning in the trial of two men charged with serving as contract killers in a drug ring accused of operating in Tennessee and several other...

TURNERTOWN, Texas (AP) — Investigators say a one-vehicle accident in East Texas has left three men dead after their car struck a tree.The Department of Public Safety says the accident happened...

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston police say the driver of a recently acquired Lamborghini has been blamed for a wreck that left three people hurt.Police say two pedestrians were struck by the sports car...

DALLAS (AP) — Officials say the opening of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Green Line has helped make 2011 the busiest year ever for the light rail service.The Dallas Morning News reported Sunday...