Updated: 12:23 PM The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday upheld much of the Texas congressional redistricting plan engineered by former House Speaker Tom DeLay, but found some boundaries failed to protect minority voting rights.
Posted: 11:52 AM The largest wind farm in the country will be built off Padre Island in the Gulf of Mexico, State Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson announced Thursday.
Updated: 6:49 PM An autopsy was ordered Monday after a Central Texas jail inmate was found dead in a holding cell.
Posted: 9:20 AM Another Fort Hood soldier has died in the explosion of a homemade bomb in Iraq, the military said Thursday.
Updated: 10:19 AM The military said Wednesday it couldn’t confirm the authenticity of a poor-quality Internet video that appears to show Iraqi insurgents dragging the body of a pilot after the crash of an Apache helicopter.
Posted: 5:05 PM More detours are in store again Tuesday as crews continue to work on the multi-million dollar Loop 340 interchange project in Waco.
Posted: 11:50 AM The country’s first female Secretary of the Interior is set to announce her resignation, The Associated Press reported Friday.
Posted: 9:25 AM A California man who was supposed to be executed Tuesday morning for the rape and murder of a teenage girl got a temporary reprieve after two doctors refused to take part for ethical reasons.
Updated: 5:16 PM Gulf Coast oil and natural gas production won’t fully recover from the effects of a costly hurricane season until next summer, a top federal official said Thursday.
Updated: 4:35 PM The Texas Republican Party reached an agreement with the Travis County Attorney’s Office Thursday to avoid prosecution in a corporate money probe.
Updated: 1:46 PM Iraq’s Sunni party is demanding an international probe into torture allegations.
Updated: 4:29 PM News Ten invited Central Texans to weigh in on the anti-war protest staged by Cindy Sheehan near the President’s Crawford-area ranch, and Central Texas responded. Click on “full story” to read what your neighbors have to say about the demonstration and the demonstrators.
Updated: 10:17 AM Plainclothes police chased a man in a thick coat through a subway station, wrestled him to the floor and shot him to death in front of stunned commuters Friday.
Updated: 1:24 PM Desperate Londoners hunted for missing relatives on Friday after suspected al Qaeda bombers killed more than 50 people in rush-hour blasts
Updated: 5:14 PM A jury acquitted Michael Jackson on Monday of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland ranch, vindicating the pop star who insisted he was the victim of mother-and-son con artists and a prosecutor with a vendetta.
Updated: 12:39 PM Former Waco resident and Baylor University Law School graduate Priscilla Owen was sworn in Monday as a federal appeals court judge.
Updated: 4:54 PM A recently released Texas prison inmate who s the father of one of the two girls found slain in a park in Zion, Ill. was charged in the deaths of the girls Tuesday.
Updated: 12:15 PM Authorities made an arrest Monday in the shooting of a Central Texas deputy during a traffic stop in Llano County.
Updated: 4:16 PM A judge Thursday in Santa Maria, Calif. denied a defense motion for an acquittal in the child molestation trial of pop singer Michael Jackson.
Updated: 3:40 PM About 250 farmers and ranchers rallied Tuesday at the Capitol to protest Gov. Rick Perry's Trans Texas Corridor plan.
Updated: 11:17 AM Insurgents launched a fresh round of attacks Saturday in Iraq, killing at least ten Iraqis. Six U.S. soldiers have died in roadside bombings in the country since Thursday, military officials said.
Updated: 10:38 AM The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to send the controversial nomination of Texas Supreme Court Justice and Baylor Law School graduate Priscilla Owen to the full Senate, setting the stage for a fight over filibuster rules.
Updated: 9:57 AM A Fort Hood sergeant who recently returned from Iraq plotted with a woman he met over the Internet to kill her husband, a federal complaint alleges.
Updated: 4:53 PM Kraft Foods is recalling nearly 150,000 packages of Jell-O chocolate pudding that may contain unlisted pistachio nuts.
