• Kilgore ISD plan aims to avoid state takeover

• Conroe grad eyes shot at pro baseball

• DUI task force expects a busy no-refusal weekend

• Incarnate Word Academy elementary principal to say goodbye to Catholic education after 54 years

• Subway, yogurt shop coming to Walden Road

• Seven plead guilty in smuggling cellphones, drugs in Beeville prison

• Budget curves continue down to the wire

• Lawmakers OK ban on sugary drinks in Texas schools

• Cheviot a broadcaster who spoke his mind

• Minister now in Virginia accused of child sexual assault in the 1990s in Fort Worth

• 10-month-old McKinney girl found safe in Laredo, ending Amber Alert; mother taken into custody

• Sister of man who drowned sons is jailed after sobbing in Dallas court, screaming

• El Paso County sheriff’s deputies looking for owners of a horse, donkey

• Safety Board: ATF blocking Texas fertilizer plant blast probe

• Plainview prepared for natural disaster

• Education Notebook: Rotary Club honors AISD unaccompanied youth graduates

• John Hancock wouldn’t sign off on The Professors’ showing vs. fifth-graders

• Big Country Briefs 5/22/2013