Curtain Call For The Collin County Arts Center
After millions of dollars spent designing a new performing arts center, the cities of Plano and Allen have pulled the plug on the project.
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After millions of dollars spent designing a new performing arts center, the cities of Plano and Allen have pulled the plug on the project.
Texas high school students won't have to worry about new standardized testing known as STAAR affecting their grades this year, thanks to a one-year wavier signed Friday by the state's education chief.
The rooftop of a suburban high school is not a location that companies usually consider prime advertising real estate. But in Humble Independent School District, it may be. The district's high school is directly in a flight path for Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Long-term unemployed workers in states with persisting high joblessness soon would no longer be able to count on unemployment benefit checks for up to 99 weeks under legislation before Congress.
Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul decried the "war on drugs" Thursday night, telling supporters people should be able to make their own decisions on such matters.
Rick Perry wants to use money left over from his failed presidential bid to form a political action committee supporting other candidates.
A special investigation will be launched to determine if a former prosecutor who is now a judge hid evidence in a trial that sent a man wrongly convicted in his wife's murder to prison for nearly a quarter-century.
The Dallas City Council wants to make sure what they're thinking is in line with what residents want.
With 155 delegates up for grabs during its primary, Texas is the nation's second biggest prize. In any normal year Texas matters, but the redistricting fight has delayed the state primary.
On a pleasant October day at a Fort Worth gun show, the makings of a murder began. Four months after that purchase, an assassin would pull the trigger on the same gun in Mexico, killing a U.S. agent.
Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum is coming back to North Texas next week. It will be his second trip here this month.
The Texas attorney general and minority groups demanding equal representation have agreed to a temporary compromise over one of the state's three disputed political maps.
The order came in TransCanada's condemnation lawsuit against the family partnership for right-of-way across the 600-acre farm along the Red River.
The head of the Texas Senate Education Committee said she supports postponing requirements that new state standardized tests count toward 15 percent of high school students' grades.
A panel of federal judges is demanding compromise on Texas voting maps that have all but sunk the chances of the state holding an April primary.
