One winning ticket was sold for a record Powerball jackpot of more than $590 million.
A cleaning employee was found dead in a local real estate business building.
Witnesses to a series of accidents on I-35 say distracted drivers may have caused at least one pileup.
Southbound traffic was backed up for miles after an 18-wheeler dumped a 20-ton concrete culvert on Interstate 35 Friday afternoon.
Police were looking for leads Friday after a local restaurant was robbed at gunpoint late Thursday night.
Bond was set at $1.5 million Friday for a Central Texas man whose capital murder conviction for the fiery deaths of his adopted sons was vacated 25 years after he was sent to state prison.
Three people were jailed Friday in Central Texas, charged in the deaths of two people whose bodies were found in a burned out rural home.
A Central Texas teenager was arrested early Friday morning after holding police and sheriff’s deputies at bay.
Police arrested a man Thursday night after patrons at a local bar said he pulled a gun on them.
A woman was killed and three people, including two children, were injured in a crash on a Central Texas interstate.
Officials Thursday identified the soldier who coordinated a sexual assault prevention program at Fort Hood who’s now accused of sexual assault.
An investigation was underway Thursday after two bodies were found inside a burning home in rural Central Texas.
A Central Texas woman shot and killed her husband in self-defense, a grand jury ruled in declining to hand up an indictment.
The “emergency planning and response system worked,” West Mayor Tommy Muska said Thursday in a letter distributed to the media, apparently in response to coverage critical of the state of local preparedness before the deadly April 17 fertilizer plant explosion.
The weeks-long investigation of the deadly West fertilizer plant explosion identified three possible causes of the fire that caused the blast, two accidental and the third intentional, officials said Thursday.
They’re all West ISD graduates, and for the first time, members of West's school board toured the campuses damaged by the April 17 fertilizer plant explosion.
The power tied to Gov. Rick Perry’s veto pen is growing as the end of the Legislature’s session nears.
A Texas man who was trying to help a woman dragged out of a nail salon by her husband was shot in the head, police say.
A Texas man was shot repeatedly on the front porch of his home.
A memorial service is scheduled Sunday for a Texas middle school cheerleader whose remains were found more than two years after she disappeared.
Police were looking for a gunman Sunday after a deadly shooting at a Texas restaurant.
A 1-year-old left in a locked car in the parking lot of a Texas elementary school died Friday.
Gov. Rick Perry toured a tornado-ravaged Granbury neighborhood Friday.
Texas House and Senate negotiators have struck a budget deal, an official said Friday.
A Texas Senate committee Friday sent a bill legalizing switchblades to the full chamber.
A veteran Texas lawmaker is leading a revolt of sorts against the state Senate.
House and Senate negotiators in Austin are close to agreement on a new state budget that would restore $4 billion in school funding.
A former Texas banker is headed to prison for embezzling from customers.
A Texas sheriff who took office in January quit after pleading guilty to a tampering charge.
Classes were canceled again Friday in tornado-damaged Cleburne.
Two men and a teenager were jailed Friday, charged in a break-in during which a pregnant Texas woman was beaten.
A college coed who was accidentally shot and killed by a police officer was honored by graduates during the school’s commencement ceremony.
The driver of a vehicle that plowed into a parade likely had a medical condition, authorities say.
A 6-year-old boy who was kicked by a pony while playing with other children in a pasture has died.
Iran has executed two men accused of spying for Israel and the U.S.
Two of the three soldiers killed in a homemade bomb attack earlier this week in Afghanistan were based in Texas, the military said Friday.
Police were involved a shooting that left a university coed and an armed intruder dead.
A woman found drowned in a creek along with her two children feared her family was being stalked by "demonic presences."
A woman accused of trying to give her baby to strangers was facing charges Friday.
Thieves got away with $1 million worth of jewelry in a brazen heist near the site of the Cannes Film Festival.
A Navy SEAL died and seven other Navy personnel were injured in a training accident.
The new pump that spacewalking astronauts installed fixed a leak at the International Space Station, NASA says.
A mother who saw her 5-year-old daughter being abducted chased down the kidnapper and crashed her vehicle into his car.
Police made a second arrest Thursday in a shooting during a Mother’s Day parade that left 19 injured.
Police shot a teenage car theft suspect inside a car rental return area at a Florida airport.
The weather was cooperating as firefighters battled a 3,000-acre wildfire in a national forest in California.
