MARBLE FALLS, Texas, June 29 (UPI) -- Residents of Marble Falls, Texas, prepared for more rain Friday while trying to recover from a deluge of 19 1/2 inches of rain in just three hours. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst toured Marble Falls Thursday to view the damage.

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Texas politicians have pushed for the state to join Louisiana, Montana, Oklahoma and South Carolina in instituting the death penalty for child molesters.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 9 (UPI) -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a plan to tax business and cigarettes to fund public schools, but needs support of the lieutenant governor and the House speaker.

AUSTIN, Texas, March 3 (UPI) -- The Texas Senate Thursday passed legislation to reform the state's troubled protective services for the elderly and children.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, enjoys a 72 percent approval rating in a new independent poll, making her the most popular politician in Texas.

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Texas may have to overhaul its crime-labs because of problems at Houston and elsewhere around the state, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said Monday. Dewhurst asked the Senate Criminal Justice Committee to begin a study of the system, the Houston Chronicle report

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst Thursday announced the Texas Senate will support a state property tax and an expansion of business taxes to fix school funding. Dewhurst, who leads the 31-member Senate, said the plan would generate another $1.6 billion a year for

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- An investigation has found that Texas child-abuse investigators put children at risk by violating procedures, The Dallas Morning News reported Friday. Gov. Rick Perry ordered a review of the agency after several cases of deaths and sexual abuse of childr

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Texas leaders are planning for a special legislative session that would overhaul the state's $27 billion-a-year school funding program.