• Confirmation hearing dominated by Powers questions

• Spring Hill to swear in new board member

• Citizens can learn about law enforcement through police academy

• Beaumont Aryan shows he’s no snitch

• Forensic scientists exhume Brooks County graves in hopes of reunited unidentified bodies with loved

• H-E-B pulls prepackaged Gulf shrimp from Galveston Shrimp Co. after recall

• Police: 72-year-old exposed himself to children at mall

• Senators grill UT regents nominees

• Pup chained to interstate guardrail; ACS seeks culprit

• Local universities in line for big improvements

• Poor population in DFW suburbs has risen 111 percent since 2000

• Colleyville pharmacist gets 18 months in prison for tax evasion

• Texas Gov. Rick Perry signs bill making Texas Tech med school stand-alone campus

• T-Bar close to ‘substantial completion’

• Bynum celebrates large senior class

• Storm demolishes community

• Big Country Journal: Getting grilled in Hico has tastier meaning at steak cookoff

• School marks 20th anniversary