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The Texas State Board of Education met and considered how Texans can get the equivalent of a high school degree, with critics arguing that Texas' current exam is too difficult and expensive.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been trying to take a bite of the Big Apple and bring its businesses home to Texas.

The Parks and Recreation Department has a new director.

A former Nueces County employee has filed a federal lawsuit against the county and its public health district director.

Starting next spring, Del Mar College will ramp up efforts to collect tuition owed by former students.

An Alice man shot in the face during a fight remains hospitalized and the man accused of pulling the trigger is behind bars.

Blue Bell Creameries has announced an investment by a prominent Texas businessman will "ensure" the return of its ice cream products to the market.

After long, fractious negotiations, world powers and Iran struck a historic deal Tuesday to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions — an agreement aimed at averting the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran and another U.S. military intervention in the Middle East.

A Central Texas police officer who pulled over a woman for illegal use of a cellphone while driving has saved her from choking on some food.

The father of a man accused of shooting and leaving a couple for dead approached the survivor’s family in a quiet courtroom Tuesday.