Updated: 7:11 PM Sheriff’s deputies were able to convince a man who was holding a woman hostage inside a house in rural Central Texas to surrender after about two hours.

Posted: 1:17 PM A Texas woman is accused of offering her 3-year-old son for adoption on Craigslist.

Updated: 1:08 PM Jurors deliberated for less than 10 minutes Wednesday before returning a verdict in the capital murder trial of a man accused of drowning his two young sons.

Updated: 2:02 PM Two police officers involved in a shooting that left a local man injured were cleared Wednesday by a grand jury.

Updated: 10:25 AM The crew of an American Airlines jet made an emergency landing in Texas after the pilot reported an electrical odor in the cockpit.

Posted: 9:39 AM A Texas teenager struck by gunfire while in a car with other teens has died.

Updated: 7:10 PM The coordinator of the Army sexual assault prevention office at Fort Hood has been accused of abusive sexual contact.

Updated: 9:03 AM Police Wednesday identified the 65-year-old man who evidently drowned while trying to launch a boat in a local lake.

Updated: 9:04 AM A Houston appeals court on Tuesday upheld the 2011 conviction of a Central Texas woman who was found guilty of killing her husband in October 2008.

Updated: 7:25 AM Officials in Georgetown have summoned more than 1000 prospective jurors as the selection process begins for the upcoming Albert Love capital murder trial.

Updated: 9:05 AM A new Texas law will require drivers to yield to TxDot vehicles.

Updated: 7:09 PM A federal court hearing for a West EMS volunteer who admitted to possession of the components to make a pipe bomb was canceled Wednesday.

Posted: 5:25 PM A 17-year-old suburban Texas boy is charged with human trafficking after a 15-year-old female classmate said she was held captive and forced into prostitution.

Updated: 6:01 PM The results of the joint investigation of the deadly April 17 fertilizer plant explosion in West will announced Thursday.

Posted: 2:39 PM Civilian employees of the Department of Defense will be furloughed for as much as 11 days beginning in July under a plan announced Tuesday by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel.

Posted: 12:58 PM The singer for a Grammy-winning Tejano group was injured in an attack early Tuesday outside of a Texas nightclub.

Posted: 12:53 PM Texas con man Billie Sol Estes has died.

Updated: 9:59 PM A 67-year-old man found dead Tuesday in a local lake was the victim of what evidently was an accidental drowning, police said.

Posted: 11:43 AM About 25,000 quarters were recovered after a car veered off an Interstate 35 overpass and crashed at the base of the bridge following a police pursuit, police said Tuesday.

Posted: 11:24 AM A 49-year-old Texas man accused of beating his elderly mother to death on Mother’s Day was held Tuesday in lieu of $1 million bond.

Posted: 10:24 AM Police were looking for leads Tuesday after a shooting that left a Texas woman and a 10-year-old boy dead and the boy’s father injured.

Updated: 10:21 AM A wildfire that forced evacuations in a Texas lake-area community was mostly contained Wednesday.

Updated: 9:02 AM A local man was jailed Tuesday, charged in an incident in which another man was abducted and held in an apartment for four days.

Updated: 9:03 AM A Central Texas man sentenced to 47 years in state prison after a jury found him guilty of sexually abusing a young girl has been denied a new trial.

Updated: 7:45 PM Representatives of country legend Willie Nelson presented checks Monday to two volunteer fire departments that were hit hard by the massive April 17 fertilizer plant explosion in West.