Texas

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to disapprove the State’s Flexible Permits Program, which has been in place since 1994. read more..

Texas wants to keep control of air pollution program read more..

Texas High School announces summer schedules for students in the 2010-11 Texas High School Tiger Marching Band. Equipment pickup will be 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., Thursday and Friday in the THS Band Hall. read more..

SAN ANTONIO — The state of Texas is opposing an attempt by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas to trademark the phrase “The Alamo.” The state argued in a brief filed Friday with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that it is the rightful owne … read more..

Texas-based Branded Retail Energy Company and Champion Energy Services team with the Longhorns on revolutionary approach to marketing energy. read more..

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The state of Texas is opposing an attempt by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas to trademark the phrase “The Alamo.” The state argued in a brief filed Friday with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that it is the rightful owner of the trademark. read more..

The state of Texas is opposing an attempt by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas to trademark the phrase ‘The Alamo’ read more..

TEXAS CITY, Texas Human errors and the failure of the electricity market to correct mistakes quickly left a mother of two, through no fault of her own, without power for more than 48 hours. Maura Rubio, 36, was driven from her Texas City apartment July 16 by sweltering heat and humidity, when a woman, who was moving into the complex, gave TXU Energy the wrong apartment number. Rubio, 36, a … read more..

Texarkana, Texas, City Council tonight will learn about a five-year plan to end homelessness. The plan details benchmarks through 2014 for providing housing and support services. read more..

Texas independent insurance agent Gordon Sorrel, credits the power of niche marketing with contributing to the growth his agency has experienced during the last year, despite the soft market and … read more..

Texas The Texas A&M System has entered into a three-year cooperative agreement with Peru’s primary agricultural institution, the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina and its agriculture ministry’s Instituto Nacional de Innovacion Agraria, INIA. The agreement will be implemented through Texas A&M University’s Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture and College of Agriculture and … read more..

AUSTIN, TexasThousands of freshmen and new students flocking to Texas colleges for the start of classes next month must first get the vaccine against often fatal bacterial meningitis before they’ll be allowed to move into campus dorms. read more..

BROWNSVILLE, TexasChickie Samano does not remember the storms that in 1942 swept through Brownsville and, as people always told her, “made the sky look like night for at least four days. read more..

BROWNSVILLE, TexasChickie Samano does not remember the storms that in 1942 swept through Brownsville and, as people always told her, “made the sky look like night for at least four days. read more..

AUSTIN, TexasThousands of freshmen and new students flocking to Texas colleges for the start of classes next month must first get the vaccine against often fatal bacterial meningitis before they’ll be allowed to move into campus dorms. read more..

Texas The Texas A&M System has entered into a three-year cooperative agreement with Peru’s primary agricultural institution, the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina and its agriculture ministry’s Instituto Nacional de Innovacion Agraria, INIA. The agreement will be implemented through Texas A&M University’s Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture and College of Agriculture and … read more..

UVALDE, Texas (AP) - Growing up here as part of a small black community, Ben Kinchlow remembers the signs of segregation were ever-present but subtle: African Americans and Anglos bought popcorn at the same movie theater snack bar but watched the films from separate seating areas. read more..

An Army private from Texas who was swept away when a levee broke in Afghanistan has died, the military said Saturday. read more..

The Texas Rangers have placed catcher Matt Treanor on the 15-day disabled list with a strained ligament in his right knee. Texas recalled catcher Taylor Teagarden from Double-A Frisco before Saturday night’s game against the Los Angeles Angels to replace Treanor as Bengie Molina’s backup. Treanor was injured in the seventh inning Friday night when he lunged for first base trying to beat out… read more..

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Texas Rangers have placed catcher Matt Treanor on the 15-day disabled list with a strained ligament in his right knee. read more..

WICHITA - A Texas man arrested in Ellis County in possession of 436,000 Ecstasy pills has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Lanny Welch said Thursday. read more..

The family of a southeast Texas firefighter killed in a July 4 blaze has sued to void his marriage to his transgender widow and prevent her from getting his death benefits because she was born a man and Texas doesn’t… read more..

The TEXAS tradition continues as attendance tops more than 60,000 wtih a month remaining in the 2010 season. Vince Hernandez, executive director of the Texas Panhandle Heritage Foundation, set … read more..

JACKSONVILLE, Texas - Bill White put distance between himself and Barack Obama on Wednesday, saying he and the president don’t come from the same place or share some of the same views. read more..

Texas physicians forecast higher health care costs and lower quality under America’s new health reform law, according to a new Texas Medical Association (TMA) physician survey. Health reform largely was billed as a way to decrease health care costs for the average American. However, findings from a recent TMA survey say that most Texas physicians are not convinced. TMA sent the study to its … read more..

AUSTIN - Representatives for Texas’ 460 independent charter schools asked the State Board of Education on Wednesday to tap into the state’s education trust fund and for the first time provide them classrooms and facilities for their students. read more..

JACKSONVILLE, Texas - Bill White put distance between himself and Barack Obama on Wednesday, saying he and the president don’t come from the same place or share some of the same views. read more..

Texas Connections Academy (TCA) is offering parents throughout Texas the opportunity to learn more about this highly accountable, high-quality virtual public school during local information sessions. These information sessions also allow interested families to meet with TCA’s certified teachers and parents with children currently enrolled in the school. read more..

AUSTINTexas standards for what students are expected to learn in math are clearly inferior to a new set of national guidelines that the states leaders have rejected, according to a think tanks analysis. read more..

AUSTIN — Texas standards for what students are expected to learn in math are “clearly inferior” to a new set of national guidelines that the state’s leaders have rejected, according to a think read more..

The Texas Tech faithful are investing in the Red Raider football program at a historic rate as the demand for season tickets has reached record numbers for the second time in the last three years. read more..

BOSTON Texas starter C.J. Wilson threw the ball a lot better than Bostons fielders. The left-hander struck out a career-high 10 and the Rangers capitalized on the Red Sox throwing problems for a 4-2 win Sunday. read more..

Dallas - Anh Thu Do of Liberty, Texas, is the 2010 winner of the Art of Conservation Stamp Award in the 12th annual Wildlife Forever State-Fish Art Contest, it was announced Saturday at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, site of this years contest expo. read more..

Texas Tech football preview: 5 reasons why Red Raiders fans should be concerned read more..

Texas Rangers outfielder Cristian Santana has been suspended for 50 games following a positive test for Formestane under baseball’s minor league drug program. The 21-year-old is batting .260 with 11 homers and 46 RBIs for Hickory of the Class A South Atlantic League. The suspension, announced Tuesday, starts immediately. read more..

Texas AandM football preview: 5 reasons why Aggies fans should be concerned read more..

The Texas Rangers have as many as four potential bidders that may compete in a auction to buy the baseball team other than a group lead by Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan, Chief Restructuring Officer William Snyder said. read more..

Texas football preview: 5 reasons why Longhorns fans should be concerned read more..