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The Texas Longhorns grinded out a 2-1 win over the No. 7 Baylor Bears on Saturday afternoon at UFCU Disch-Falk Field to wrap up the regular season. Texas (30-20, 14-10 Big 12) scored the game-winning run in the bottom of the eighth when Jonathan ...

Submitted: 12:00:03 AM May 19th, 2012

State Supreme Court orders Texas to pay ex-inmate $2 million

The Texas Supreme Court ordered the state Friday to pay about $2 million to an ex-inmate who spent 26 years in prison for murder before his conviction was overturned, a decision legal experts said could set a new standard for when ex-prisoners should be ...

Submitted: 12:00:03 AM May 19th, 2012

Texas target WR Ra'Shaad Samples announces on Twitter when he'll make college choice, 'Horns on his short list

Of the 23 players that Texas has offered scholarships, 13 of them have accepted the offer. Even another guy that didn't have a Longohrns offer has verbally committed to play for UT in Harker Heights linebacker Naashon Hughes. The 'Horns could be getting ...

Submitted: 12:00:03 AM May 19th, 2012

Planned Parenthood Urges Court to Keep Texas Funding in Place

Planned Parenthood-affiliated groups in Texas asked a federal appeals court to uphold a ruling requiring the state to keep subsidizing the clinics. The organizations said a lower court in Austin correctly blocked a state regulation that would ...

Submitted: 12:00:03 AM May 19th, 2012

Texas prison system has enough drugs for 23 executions

HOUSTON — Texas prison officials disclosed Friday they have enough lethal drugs to execute as many as 23 people. In response to this week's opinion from the state attorney general's office that said the Texas Department of Criminal Justice ...

Submitted: 12:00:03 AM May 19th, 2012

Texas officials join manhunt for groom charged in slaying of bride after wedding in Illinois

CHICAGO — Police in suburban Chicago have asked authorities in Texas to join the hunt for a man accused of stabbing his new wife to death and leaving her body in her bathtub, still clad in the silver sequined cocktail dress she wore to ...

Submitted: 12:00:03 AM May 19th, 2012

Texas Rangers at Houston Astros

(AP) -- While Josh Hamilton was given most of Thursday off, the Houston Astros surely would not object if Ron Washington rested his slugger for the whole weekend. Hamilton and the Rangers begin their bid to retain the Silver Boot for the sixth straight ...

Submitted: 12:00:03 PM May 19th, 2012

How Texas executed an innocent man

A few years ago, Antonin Scalia, one of the nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, made a bold statement. There has not been, he said, “a single case — not one — in which it is clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not commit.

Submitted: 12:00:03 PM May 19th, 2012

Texas man who raped, impregnated daughter sentenced to 40 years

WEATHERFORD, Texas — A Parker County man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for repeatedly impregnating his daughter over more than a decade of sexual assault. The assaults resulted in a child, a miscarriage and two abortions, Assistant ...

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Texas Business Activity Report Released - Travis County Tops List

Published: September 16th, 2011

Travis County easily outpaced its peer Texas counties to win the title of most entrepreneurial Texas county for business startups. The finding came as TexasStateNews.com released its Texas Business Activity Report for August. The report analyzed nearly 45,000 business filings in a effort to determine the most start-up friendly locals . . . read more . . .

August 2011 Texas Business Activity Report

1. Travis County - 333
2. Kendall County - 208
3. Ochiltree County - 206
4. Gillespie County - 203
5. Jack County - 188
6. De Witt County - 180
7. Aransas County - 176
8. Dallas County - 175
9. Shelby County - 169
10. Bandera County - 167