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Smoking anywhere inside a place that is considered a workplace could be a thing of the past throughout Texas later this year.

The Texas Department of Transportation says the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor is dead in its initial form and that plans for the highway network have been scaled down. Video

Gov. Rick Perry is in Iraq on a U.S. Defense Department trip that he says allows him to thank Texas troops for their service.

A newspaper reports that a health care company hired to manage a program for elderly Texans as part of a broad privatization plan was fined more than $1 million by the state in the past year over complaints including delayed or denied medical care.

A state law that went into effect today calls for fire-safe cigarettes to be sold. Video

Former state Comptroller John Sharp filed documents today to run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison.

Central Texas authorities who discovered $1.2 million worth of drugs and arrested three men are calling it the largest cocaine seizure in Bell County history.

Authorities say the suspect in a series of rush-hour shootings in Dallas was a former Utah state trooper who shot and injured himself after a standoff with police.

Mexican authorities say soldiers shot to death a pregnant 35-year-old woman after she reportedly failed to stop at a highway checkpoint in the northern state of Chihuahua.

A Christmas parade in Beaumont, TX ended tragically with the accidental death of a 10-year-old girl.