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Sandra Sanchez sits on her steps as her three little kids play in the front yard. She's lived in Gainesville for six years. The mother says she does everything she can to protect her little ones. She expects the same when her 5-year-old is at school.
Fort Worth's ongoing deep budget cuts are starting to mean big problems for the city's code compliance department and the animal control agency its responsible for. The department desperately needed money to keep up with citizen calls. So where did it turn? Garbage.
Friends and supporters of former Texas Gov. Bill Clements gathered Thursday to pay tribute to the state's first Republican governor since Reconstruction.
The two neighborhoods are being recognized for their sense of community.
Police in Frisco are hopeful they will get a break in the case of a man shot to death Wednesday night in a very public place -- near a new Wal-Mart.
The father of the boy known as Wylie's Angel got his chance Thursday to confront the woman who left his son to die.
Thursday is the seventh and final time Michael Hinojosa will oversee the last day of school as the Dallas Independent School District superintendent. Hinojosa is expected to formally accept a job offer in Cobb County, Georgia by Monday.
Some North Texas researchers hope to become the first to figure out if the controversial hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" process is to blame for chemicals in well water.
Lawmakers are hoping for a quick resolution to the school finance jam that sparked the special session. Public hearings on a handful of budget-related bills started Thursday, just two days after the special session convened.
Hundreds of items from the Houston office of disgraced financier R. Allen Stanford will be auctioned as part of efforts to recoup some of the billions of dollars he is accused of bilking in a Ponzi scheme.
Lawyers seeking to get a woman off Texas death row have renewed their claim of misconduct by a former prosecutor.
Former President George W. Bush will host a golf tournament in October for members of the U.S. military wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A father and son have been accused of a killing at the family's Dallas bail bond company in a dispute with a business partner.
The United Way recently cut $244,000 from the West Dallas Community Centers -- about 40 percent of the organization's budget.
Pier 1 Imports Inc. said Thursday that revenue at stores open at least a year rose 10.2 percent in the first quarter.