Snipers kill five police at US protest over shootings
Snipers shot dead five police officers and injured six others in Dallas during a protest against police shootings of black men on Friday.
Texas governor to send 1,000 troops to Mexico border
Texas Governor Rick Perry announced plans to send 1,000 military reservists to the state's border with Mexico, to tackle a surge in immigrant children flooding into the United States.
Texas woman gets 18 years for Obama ricin plot
A US actress who tried to blame her husband for sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama, then-New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and a gun control activist got 18 years in prison
Obama to nominate San Antonio mayor as US housing secretary
President Barack Obama will announce Friday his plan to nominate Julian Castro, the charismatic Hispanic mayor of San Antonio, Texas, as US secretary of housing and urban development.
Kazakhstani sentenced to life imprisonment in US facing retrial
Kazakhstan national Asel Abdygapparova convicted for life in prison in the US is awaiting retrial and possible reduction of jail sentence.
Brain-dead Texas woman's fetus 'abnormal,' lawyers say
The fetus being carried by a pregnant American woman already declared brain dead is "distinctly abnormal".
US actress pleads guilty to Obama, Bloomberg ricin plot
A 36-year-old actress from Texas on Tuesday pleaded guilty to mailing ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a gun control activist, federal prosecutors said.
US top court won't block restrictive Texas abortion law
The US Supreme Court Tuesday refused to block a law that restricts women's access to abortions in the southern state of Texas.
Texas abortion law passes despite protests
The Texas senate late Friday approved a bill setting some of the strictest limits on abortion in the United States, just weeks after a filibuster by opposition Democrats dramatically thwarted the measure.
Texas executes 500th inmate since death penalty reinstated
The US state of Texas on Wednesday executed its 500th convict since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, a record in a country where capital punishment is in decline elsewhere.
Texas actress arrested in US ricin case
A Texas actress was arrested Friday for mailing ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a gun control activist.
Solar plane to get inflatable hangar after Midwest storms
The first manned aircraft that can fly day and night powered entirely by solar energy was to leave Texas for Missouri Monday.
Obama eulogizes victims of tragic Texas blast
President Barack Obama on Thursday eulogized 12 firefighters who were among 14 people killed in a massive blast at a fertilizer plant in a small Texas town, during a week of tragedy in America.
Race to find survivors after 'nightmare' Texas blast
Rescuers in Texas on Thursday combed through rubble in a painstaking search for survivors after a massive blast at a fertilizer factory killed as many as 15 people and destroyed dozens of homes.
60-70 dead, hundreds hurt in Texas plant explosion: media
Some 60 to 70 people were killed and hundreds were injured by an explosion at a fertilizer plant outside Waco, Texas, local media reported, citing the local emergency manager.
Shooting on Texas campus injures three
Three people were shot after a fight at a Texas college erupted in gunfire Tuesday, sparking too-familiar images of frightened students escorted by swarms of police.
US financier tied to Pinochet money laundering dies
Texas financier and media magnate Joe Allbritton, who lost the scandal-racked Riggs bank to a hostile takeover after it was fined for helping Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet launder money, has died at the age of 87.
Texas warns it could prosecute OSCE poll monitors
The southern US state of Texas has warned it could prosecute election observers from the OSCE, a global body that regularly monitors voting around the world, if they try to visit polling stations next month.
Man executed in Texas for killing immigrant
An American man convicted of killing a Sudanese immigrant was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday in Texas after the US Supreme Court rejected his fourth appeal for a stay of execution.
'Latino Barack Obama' enters national spotlight
A telegenic young Texas mayor billed as a Latino Barack Obama in the making, Julian Castro, bounded on to the world's brightest political stage Tuesday.
