Texas News

Today in most parts of the Lone Star State it'll be sunny and a cool 70 degrees. Yeah, it might have dropped into the forties overnight, but that's hardly anything to brag about. What's the use in being the toughest folk in America when the weather is so milquetoast? Look at what you could be experiencing today if you lived in Maine, instead.

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WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — On his first day in the Texas Senate eight years ago, Dan Patrick invoked America's Founding Fathers while imploring his colleagues to break with tradition and abandon a rule allowing the minority party to block especially hot-button bills.

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IRVING, Texas (AP) — Retail gasoline prices across Texas have slipped 3 cents this week to settle at $1.84 per gallon.

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Republican Greg Abbott has been sworn in as the first new governor of Texas since Rick Perry took office in 2000.

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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — San Antonio police say two men have been fatally shot and at least five other people hurt in gunfire into a crowd at a car wash parking lot.

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WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — For the first time since August 2013, the Texas Legislature is back in session — and if that idea takes some getting used to, think how 24 first-term representatives and eight freshman senators feel.

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After 14 years in office, Governor Rick Perry will step down Thursday, but chances are we haven’t heard the last of him politically.

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During a joint session of the Texas House and Senate Thursday, Governor Rick Perry stepped down after 14 years in office.

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Bus crash near Odessa kills ten.

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HOUSTON (AP) — Records show that employees at a Houston-area pesticide plant where a poisonous gas killed four workers in November may have been exposed to dangerous fumes for years.

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