http://www.mexiadailynews.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:13:00 +0000 http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_081121311.html http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_081121311.html AUSTIN (AP) — The chairman of the State Board of Education said there is insufficient time to seek input from Hispanic experts before new reading and writing curriculum standards for Texas public school students are adopted. Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:46:00 +0000 http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_081104632.html http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_081104632.html AUSTIN (AP) — Searchers found the body of a missing camper in Lake Travis on Thursday after she apparently fell off a cliff near her family’s campsite in Pace Bend Park. Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:40:00 +0000 http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_060094100.html http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_060094100.html WACO, Texas (AP) — About a dozen federal agents visited the former Branch Davidian compound site Thursday, 15 years after a botched raid began an armed standoff with authorities and didn’t end until a deadly inferno 51 days later Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:39:00 +0000 http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_060093929.html http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_060093929.html ROCKWALL, Texas (AP) — A Rockwall County grand jury indicted a 19-year-old man on charge of criminally negligent homicide, accusing the teenager of providing a 16-year-old girl with a fatal dose of ‘‘cheese’’ heroin. Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:37:00 +0000 http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_060093828.html http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_060093828.html IRAAN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Youth Commission conservator told workers at the Sheffield Boot Camp on Thursday that the youth prison will be closed. Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:36:00 +0000 http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_060093634.html http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_060093634.html ARCHER CITY, Texas (AP) — With winds up to 35 mph and low humidity, fire danger was high across much of Texas and one city was prepared to evacuate. Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:31:00 +0000 http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_060093542.html http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_060093542.html FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A woman faces a capital murder charge in the death of her 3-year-old daughter, who had a skull fracture and massive internal bleeding, police said. Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:29:00 +0000 http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_060093038.html http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_060093038.html SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) — When tourists found a 5-inch green sea turtle bloody and missing three of her flippers, the people who run a hospital for the endangered animals here gave her little chance of survival. Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_319180312.html http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_319180312.html FRANKSTON, Texas (AP) — Living near the dense pine woods where some believe Bigfoot still covertly skulks, escaped convict Deborah Ann Gavin Murphey perhaps thought she, too, wouldn’t be found. Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:41:00 +0000 http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_303164141.html http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_303164141.html AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — The nation’s largest Baptist convention has elected its first female president. Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:17:00 +0000 http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_296101744.html http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_296101744.html A mistrial was declared Monday in the case of five former Muslim charity leaders accused of funding terrorists. Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:16:00 +0000 http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_290121618.html http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_290121618.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison told a Texas magazine she will not seek re-election after this term and may leave the Senate as early as 2009, according to excerpts published on the magazine’s Web blog on Monday. Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:06:00 +0000 http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_282110715.html http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_282110715.html Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:05:00 +0000 http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_282110616.html http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_282110616.html TYLER, Texas (AP) — The future of the Texas State Railroad is again in doubt because the state has yet to provide funds to help keep the historic tourist train running, officials said. Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:04:00 +0000 http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_282110459.html http://www.mexiadailynews.com/statenews/local_story_282110459.html DALLAS (AP) — A man who spent 12 years in prison for a rape that DNA evidence later proved he did not commit is expected to be released from prison Tuesday in Houston, attorneys said