The Texas House approved a bill that would allow the speed limit on some highways to be raised to 85 mph, which would be the highest in the nation. Not everybody thinks it's a good idea.
Newly elected state lawmakers are usually treated like children. Veteran lawmakers remind them they are to be seen and not heard. They're told to get along they have to go along, and most do. But not this year. The current freshman class is refusing to just sit and be quiet.
Three inmates at the Cape May County Correctional Center in New Jersey wanted their drugs so badly, they used a children's coloring book to sneak them into their prison cells. We hate to give criminals so much credit, but the whole process was undeniably ingenious.
A New York advocacy group has filed a federal lawsuit claiming children in the Texas foster care system are forced to spend years in abusive, poorly supervised facilities and homes hundreds of miles from family and friends.
A bill coming up for debate in the Texas Senate would expand a state fund now used to lure sporting events to Texas, so it could be used to lure events of all kinds to Dallas Cowboys Stadium.
A judge in Tyler has ruled that a 17 year old high school student who stabbed a teacher to death in his classroom a year and a half ago is not competent to stand trial, and must be sent to a state hospital for 90 days where he'll be evaluated by state psychiatrists.
In Austin, the House Committee on Homeland Security and Public Safety is debating a bill that would make it legal to carry a gun on Texas college campuses.
Here's something anyone who wins a prize worth more than $600 dollars needs to know. The Internal Revenue Service says it's taxable income, and you have to pay taxes on the value of the prize.