• Va. students build disorientation chair for NASA

  HAMPTON, Va. (AP) -- High school students in Virginia have finished building NASA a spinning chair that astronauts in Texas will use to practice being ...

• Deputy shot by Colo. suspect to return to work

  LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) -- A North Texas sheriff's deputy has been cleared to return to work, two months after he was shot by a paroled inmate suspected of slaying Colorado's prison ...

• Video government meetings allowed under bill

  AUSTIN (AP) The Texas Legislature has amended the Open Meetings Act to allow for video teleconferences. The bill sent to the governor on Thursday would allow public officials to meet using a teleconference even if a quorum is not physically present. Supporters say the bill will bring the state's strict rules for official meetings into the modern age by allowing public officials to use ...

• VIDEO Texas has 8 of the fastest growing US cities

  HOUSTON (AP) — New estimates show Texas has eight of the nation's 15 fastest-growing cities.Estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau show San Marcos in Central Texas led the way with a nearly 5 percent population boom between July 2011 and July 2012. That's the highest rate among U.S. cities with at least 50,000 ...

• Special Report Poor planning left Texas firefighters unprepared

  A housing complex is seen after it was destroyed by a deadly fertilizer plant explosion in the town of West, Texas, in this April 21 file photo. (Michael Ainsworth/Reuters/Pool) The fertilizer-plant explosion that killed 14 and injured about 200 others in Texas last month highlights the failings of a U.S. federal law intended to save lives during chemical accidents, a Reuters investigation has ...

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