Retail sales in Texas are continuing their decline in June, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Texas state Rep. Jonathan Stickland is taking a break from politics.

TEXARKANA, Texas — An East Texas man has been arrested after an elderly woman allegedly found him lying beside her bed in her bedroom and held him at gunpoint until law enforcement arrived.

Texas gained more than 14,400 workers with bachelor’s degrees between 2016 and 2017, according to a new national study, giving the state the second largest net gain of highly educated workers in the nation.

SHREVEPORT, La. - Summer's off to a hot and potentially dangerous start. A Yellow Weather Alert has been issued due to the extreme heat expected on Friday, the first official day of summer.

SHREVEPORT, La. – SWEPCO crews were working Friday to restore power as safely and quickly as possible to those that remain without power after severe storms swept through the ArkLaTex early Wednesday and Thursday mornings.

Texas finished last among the 50 states and the District of Columbia for health care access and affordability for its residents, according to a new study by the New York-based Commonwealth Fund.

SHREVEPORT, La. – Another round of severe weather left thousand of SWEPCO customers without power.

SHREVEPORT, La. – SWEPC0 crews were working Wednesday afternoon to restore electricity to customer who lost power from severe storms that moved across east Texas and northwest Louisiana.

SHREVEPORT, La. - Dangerous weather pushed in from the west early Wednesday triggering a string of watches and warnings in the ArkLaTex.

DALLAS (AP) — Waiting outside a federal courthouse, photographer Tom Fox took in Dallas' 8 a.m. bustle. People dressed for work got out of cars. A homeless man danced on a street pole.

Against the backdrop of an Austin burger joint struggling with its property taxes, Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Wednesday an expansive reform measure meant to slow the growth of Texans’ property tax bills, long a priority issue for GOP state leaders.

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Texas restaurants may soon welcome dogs in outdoor dining areas under a new state law that allows patrons to bring their furry friends at a business' discretion.

DALLAS (AP) — Authorities say an early-morning fire has destroyed a vacant 115-year-old former luxury hotel just south of downtown Dallas.

DALLAS (AP) — David Stevens was out for his usual morning run in October of 2015 when he passed under a bridge on a Dallas jogging path. There, prosecutors say, he was accosted and hacked to death by a former Texas A&M football player wielding a machete.

DALLAS — Roger Emrich, a longtime radio reporter and the public address voice for AT&T Stadium and the Dallas Cowboys, has died, his son said Sunday. He was 62.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — No one was hurt when a Union Pacific train carrying ethanol derailed in a residential area in Fort Worth and caught fire.

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Witnesses say they heard the engine of a small plane sputtering and saw its tail dragging just before it crashed in Central Texas, killing all six people on board.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — America's first female astronaut candidate, pilot Jerrie Cobb, who pushed for equality in space but never reached its heights, has died.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Public at last, special counsel Robert Mueller's report revealed to a waiting nation Thursday that President Donald Trump had tried to seize control of the Russia probe and force Mueller's removal to stop him from investigating potential obstruction of justice by the president.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Hundreds of airmen will line the main entrance of a U.S. Air Force base in San Antonio to salute as the family of the last of the 80 Doolittle Tokyo Raiders arrives for his memorial service next week.

DALLAS (AP) — A suburban Dallas teenager has pleaded guilty to plotting an Islamic State group-inspired mass shooting at a North Texas mall.