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Republican Gov. Rick Perry has defeated Democrat Bill White to win a third four-year term as Texas governor.
He was the son of a veterinarian, the product of a middle-class neighborhood where families tend to their yards and keep to themselves. That has left some who knew him at a loss about why Colton Joshua Tooley, three months past his 19th birthday, tried to shoot up the University of Texas campus.
Two-thirds of the Texas Enterprise Fund companies that had to meet job-creation goals in 2009 in exchange for millions of dollars in taxpayer money failed to bring in the jobs they promised, according to a report released Wednesday.
A plastics compounding company operating in eastern Texas has canceled its state job creation contract, joining other businesses that have quit or changed their pacts under the Texas Enterprise Fund.
A judge denied former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's request Wednesday to have his money laundering trial moved from Austin, which DeLay calls a liberal bastion where he alleges a rogue prosecutor crusaded against him.
Brothers Charles and Sam Wyly, born a year apart during the Great Depression, almost always have been joined at the hip.
Republican Gov. Rick Perry has started a multitude of battles with Washington, D.C., over the years. Lately, Democrats in the nation's capital are showing they can return the fire.
Three major gambling companies entered the competition by Tuesday to run Texas' lottery — a massive operation that could pay $100 million per year to the winning bidder.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has long criticized the federal government, and now he's writing on the subject in a new book called "FED UP."
Gov. Rick Perry's office has rewritten three more contracts for companies that are struggling to create the promised number of jobs after getting millions of taxpayer dollars from the Texas Enterprise Fund.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Tuesday it's not wise to speculate about what caused an explosion and massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and he defended his use of the term "act of God" to describe the disaster.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry says it's not wise to speculate about what caused an explosion and massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. And he's defending his use of the term "act of God" to describe the disaster.
Bidding on a new lucrative Texas lottery contract should move forward because there's no evidence that state consultant Gartner Inc. and the lottery's current operator GTECH Corp. improperly shared information about the process, a lottery official said Tuesday.
Before Rick Perry can parlay his tea party-powered victory in the Texas governor's primary into something bigger — a 2012 Republican presidential ticket, perhaps — he'll have to actually win a record-setting, third four-year term.
Debra Medina was hardly the ideal candidate in Tuesday's Republican primary: She didn't raise much money and came under fire for suggesting the U.S. might have been involved in the Sept. 11 attacks. Still, she won nearly one out of every five votes, harnessing some support in the nascent tea party movement.
A Republican showdown building for years between two Texas titans, Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, highlights the anti-establishment, anti-Washington mood of voters and the muddle that the tea party movement is making in midterm elections.
Bank of America canceled a jobs contract with Texas because the mortgage crisis and a complex merger were preventing its Countrywide Home Loans from adding the 7,500 jobs it promised to the state by late 2010, the company said Wednesday.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison sparred over taxes, spending and the economy in their first Republican governor's race debate, but their differences on abortion also took a spotlight.
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison formally entered the Texas governor's race Monday, taking on two-term incumbent Gov. Rick Perry in the March primary.
U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice, whose rulings shattered old Texas by changing the way the state educated children, treated prisoners and housed its poorest and most vulnerable citizens, has died. He was 89.
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison may be waffling about when to give up her powerful job.
A death row chaplain is facing dismissal after he acknowledged smuggling out letters for a condemned inmate who has posted Internet messages threatening a state lawmaker and that man's family, Texas prison officials said Friday.
Johnny Cash, B.B. King, Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello — they're among the legions of music legends who have graced the stage of the famed Austin City Limits television music show.
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison says she will step down this fall to challenge fellow Republican Rick Perry for governor in 2010, setting the stage for what will be a crowded race to replace her.
So much for the stereotype. Texas librarians are baring their skin and revealing their tattoos — all to raise disaster relief money to help damaged libraries. Photos of the librarians and their body art appear in a new calendar sold by the Texas Library Association.
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