The Amarillo Fire Department responded to a shed fire at 1819 Darden St. about 5:42 p.m. Wednesday. AFD said no one was injured and the fire’s cause is under investigation.

Dozers Tuesday were demolishing an aging apartment complex and a handful of old houses on Speight Avenue near the Baylor University campus, where a private group will build a multimillion-dollar student housing community that includes a seven-story parkin

When Hallsville residents hunkered down Tuesday in the face of a storm that weather officials forewarned might produce tornadoes, some wondered why their town has no emergency warning system.

Waskom High School valedictorian Dominick Phillips has known he was the No. 1-ranked student in the Class of 2013 since his seventh-grade year but even in all that time he was never really worried he

Two men were sentenced to prison Wednesday in connection with a case involving Border Patrol finding about 800 pounds of marijuana in a utility truck off Mines Road.

Three teens were detained Tuesday for vandalizing the Lafayette Skate Park in April, police said.

An early morning standoff along U.S. 287 near Bowie on Sunday ended peacefully with a 31-year-old Wichita Falls man taken into custody for a mental health evaluation.

The Texas Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation on Wednesday that would allow volunteer “school marshals” to become licensed law enforcement officers who would have access to firearms if armed attackers strike their campuses. House Bill 1009 will now move to Gov. Rick Perry, who has the option of signing it into law.

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The iconic white tower reaching towards the sky and Laredo’s latest championship team are iconic images by themselves, but this year, Uni-Trade Stadium and the Laredo Lemurs are gracing the covers of the 2013 Yellow Pages phone book.

A motorcyclist was transported to Midland Memorial Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries Wednesday after a head-on collision with a tanker in east Midland.

AUSTIN — A bill giving health care providers in emergency rooms the same protections first responders and medical personnel at hospitals and clinics receive is close to becoming law.

The Texas Senate this week unanimously approved House Bill 705, a measure that would make it a third-degree felony to assault or injure a health care provider in the emergency room. Under current law, such an offense is a Class A misdemeanor.

On May 9, the measure also unanimously passed in the House of Representatives.

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