AUSTIN -- Senior members of the Texas House were high-fiving Wednesday night after they and the state Senate simultaneously passed bills that seemed a break a bitter impasse over the state budget.

San Angelo added 2,655 people to its population between the 2010 census and the July 2012 American Community Survey estimates, according to Census Bureau figures released Wednesday.

Mexican Army soldiers have killed four men in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, in a confrontation with presumed gang members.

Storm shelters help save lives during a tornado and other natural disasters but need to be registered so that first responders and rescuers can find people trapped inside their shelters.

A man was arrested after the Wichita Falls Police Department SWAT team surrounded a home in the 100 block of Paradise early Wednesday.

Juniors from high schools throughout the Longview area got a chance to learn about career options in East Texas at the GLOBE Career Expo, held Thursday on the LeTourneau University campus. The event c

A Longview man was being held in the Gregg County Jail on a charge of theft Wednesday after police said the car he was driving was stolen.

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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.

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.