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AUSTIN—Texas will apply for about $830 million in education aid from Washington, but state officials, making a push Friday to get the money to their schools, expect a legal fight over the money. read more..

Texas Tech athletic director and former Red Raiders basketball coach Gerald Myers will retire in May. Myers coached Texas Tech’s men’s basketball team from 1971-1991 and has served as athletic director for 14 years. read more..

Texas Digest: Radioactive waste agreement reached read more..

Texas will apply for more than $800 million in federal education aid. read more..

COLLEGE STATION Texas A&M University is ranked second nationally among public institutions by U.S. News & World Report in the Great Schools, Great Prices category of the publications 2011 Best Colleges guidebook and moved up among business school ratings while maintaining its high engineering ranking and overall standing among public national universities. read more..

Texas, August 23- Average retail gasoline prices in Texas have fallen 3.2 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.53/g yesterday. This compares with the national average that has fallen 3.6 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.72/g, according to gasoline price website TexasGasPrices.com . read more..

The Texas Longhorns have agreed to move their home football game against UTEP from 2012 to 2016, says the Austin-American Statesman. The move was made to accommodate Texas’ new nine-game schedule in the Big 12. With the departure of Colorado… read more..

Texas issuers led by San Antonios Bexar County and Austin, the state capital, are set to borrow $1 billion this week, almost three times more than last week, as taxable and tax-exempt yields plunge to record levels. read more..

AUSTIN, TexasA lawsuit accuses two Iowa egg producers and Texas-based restaurant chain of causing an Austin woman’s salmonella poisoning. read more..

Texas Farm Bureau Publications Director Mike Barnett discusses the debate over who owns groundwater rights in Texas in recent blog post. read more..

AUSTIN, Texas — Administrators at school districts across Texas now have a faster and simpler way to check the safety records of bus drivers. The Department of Public Safety on Thursday announced a website, Texas.gov, that allows districts to ins … read more..

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott calls for Craigslist to take immediate action to prohibit solicitation of prostitution on its site. read more..

HOUSTON (AP) — A court hearing continues today in Houston in a dispute over who’ll pay the legal fees of jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford and two of his former company executives. They’re accused of bilking read more..

Somewhere between Hazard and Frankfort, Daniel Mongiardo is muttering, “I told you so.” As Halimah Abdullah reports, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jack Conway has disclosed that over the last 18 months, he read more..

AUSTIN, TEXAS — Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is getting the Texas trial he’s been seeking for five years on allegations that he illegally funneled campaign money. Now DeLay wants the case moved out of read more..

LUBBOCK — Tommy Tuberville has made his pick to run Texas Tech’s high-flying offense in the season opener. Taylor Potts will start over Stephen Sheffield against SMU on Sept. 5 after the two performed read more..

BISMARCK (AP) — An Army soldier with ties to North Dakota has died in a motorcycle crash in Texas. The North Dakota National Guard said Monday that 21-year-old Spc. Eric Spurgeon died Thursday from injuries suffered in read more..

AUSTIN — Former House majority leader Tom DeLay will be back in a Texas courtroom today as he faces money laundering and conspiracy charges — days after learning that the U.S. Justice Department ended its read more..

GOP candidates on five-city Texas tour, Perry maintains lead and lawmakers try to make sense of the underperforming franchise tax. (Happy birthday to Rep. Kirk England and Perry spokesman Mark Miner.) U.S read more..

After two years of morning kickoffs, Red River Rivalry fans can sleep in a bit this year. The Oklahoma-Texas game - Oct. 2 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas - begins at 2:30 p.m., the Big 12 Conference announced on read more..

Lubbock, Texas — Texas Tech senior Taylor Potts will start the season at quarterback. Potts will lead new coach Tommy Tuberville and the Red Raiders when they begin the season in two weeks against SMU. The read more..

A North Dakota soldier was killed Thursday in a motorcycle accident in Texas. Spc. Eric D. Spurgeon, 21, served as a member of Company E, 1st Battalion, 43rd Air Defense Artillery, 11th ADA Brigade at Fort Bliss, Texas read more..

The Rangers beat the Minnesota Twins, 4-0, on Monday night in the fifth no-hitter this season broken up in the ninth inning. Starter Rich Harden was activated from the disabled list earlier in the day and went read more..

After two years of morning kickoffs, Red River Rivalry fans can sleep in a bit this year. The Oklahoma-Texas game - Oct. 2 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas - begins at 2:30 p.m., the Big 12 Conference announced on read more..

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is moving to the next round in his fight against criminal indictments in Texas, where he faces money laundering and conspiracy charges. DeLay and read more..

While Texas Tech has a new coaching staff, the Red Raiders will open the season with the same quarterback who began 2009. Taylor Potts, who started 10 games last season, has claimed the No. 1 spot. He won a read more..

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - The straight brim of his powder blue cap pulled low over his forehead, 12-year-old Shiloh Baniaga struck an imposing pose with his cold stare from the mound. The pitcher came up huge read more..

There have been a lot of questions about the nationwide egg recall issued last week. Over the weekend the FDA added another egg manufacturer to the recall. So more eggs are now part of the recall including some sold here read more..

The child of a lesbian couple in a Fort Worth suburb has been rejected by an Anglican school because of her mothers’ sexuality and domestic living arrangement. The two mothers, Jill and Tracy Harrison, celebrated a read more..

State regulators will require insurance companies to justify “unreasonable” premium rate increases under the new federal health care overhaul, The Austin American-Statesman reported in Sunday’s editions. State read more..

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT - This time, there would be no late-inning comeback. Pearland’s offense made sure of that. The boys from Texas were firing all on cylinders as every starter got on base once, and had six read more..

AUSTIN (August 23, 2010)–Texas officials expect to regulate insurance rates more actively under a new federal law, requiring insurers to justify “unreasonable” increases in premiums, but say a lack of staff and other read more..

While Texas Tech has a new coaching staff, the Red Raiders will open the season with the same quarterback who began 2009. Taylor Potts, who started 10 games last season, has claimed the No. 1 spot. He won a competition read more..

ASPEN, Colo. — The Texas billionaire Sam Wyly has a laugh that blends the cackle of a mad scientist with the giggle of a teenager — a high-pitched titter that makes him sound thoroughly delighted. Until, that is read more..

DALLAS — The Civil Air Patrol continues its search for a small, hand-built airplane that disappeared after refueling in southern Arkansas. Maj. Blake Sasse said the single-engine RV-7 aircraft with one person read more..

Pearland (Texas) scored seven runs in the second inning and defeated Fairfield American 14-1 Sunday night at the Little League World Series. The game was called after four innings on the 10-run rule. Beau read more..

Associated Press The 19th Street Dam in San Antonio, Texas, becomes a bit more colorful Tuesday. A city-backed arts program, Art in Action, had artists paint murals where tagging was an issue. SAN ANTONIO read more..

Texas fans have normally taken to Greg Davis West Coast offense like Spartans confronted with the choice of using the English Longbow. Whats with these pussy short passes? Bubble screen, are you shitting me! Line up and ram it down their throats! Weve all heard such things from the fans (except in 2008) in the stands, usually as part of some anti-Davis tirade where screens are cursed and the … read more..

A Texas man convicted of beating a crying infant to death will spend the rest of his life in prison. read more..

He and three others turned up missing Thursday morning during a routine count. Authorities believe the four slipped through some bars and a vent to the roof at the Wichita County Jail Annex, which is undergoing read more..

PROVO, Utah — Brigham Young and Texas have agreed to a home-and-home series starting in 2013. The Longhorns will visit Provo for the first game, then the Cougars will travel to Texas for a game in 2014. The two schools read more..

CORPUS CHRISTI — INGLESIDE — A temporary moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico could cost South Texas thousands of jobs, officials from Nueces and San Patricio counties and read more..

Casey Anthony ’s lawyers will be allowed to review and take notes on all Texas EquuSearch records created during the group’s organized searches for her missing daughter in 2008, a judge ordered this week read more..

WASHINGTON , Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ –The Office of Inspector General of the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im OIG) announces that a Texas businessman and a co-conspirator have been indicted for money read more..

AUSTIN (August 20, 2010)—Brent Leisure, the new director of Texas State Parks has been with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for 26 years. The agency announced his appointment Friday. He begins his new job Sept read more..

Former welterweight titlist Antonio Margarito’s bid for a boxing license was denied in California on Wednesday, but he is not wasting any time in an effort to secure one in Texas, the state where he hopes to read more..