State News

A 14-year-old South Texas boy has been accused of having two cap guns in an alleged prank on campus.

The superintendent of the San Antonio Independent School District has announced his resignation in an agreement with trustees.

A Dallas man has died after firefighters answered a call about smoke, left and then returned to reports of fire in his home.

Officials say members of the hyper-violent Zetas drug cartel stabbed and bludgeoned 44 members of the rival Gulf cartel to death and then staged a mass escape, apparently with the help of prison authorities.

Ron Paul may not win the Republican nomination for president — he has yet to win a single state — but his strategy of trying to amass delegates in caucus states could land him a prominent role at the party's national convention this summer.

A South Texas sheriff's deputy has shot a man dead as the suspect allegedly was trying to draw his own handgun.

Authorities say two people are dead and four others injured after a private airplane from Texas crashed just short of an airport runway during a heavy snowstorm in Colorado.

Texas A&M officials are proposing an almost 4 percent tuition hike for the upcoming school year.

A Central Texas sinkhole that's grown to about 20-feet deep has offered researchers a way to study runoff into the Edwards Aquifer.

Federal authorities say they've arrested an alleged sexual predator wanted in Texas at a truck stop west of Phoenix.