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 Dallas ISD's School of Science and Engineering has been a mainstay at the top of national magazine high school rankings, derived largely from the number of students taking Advanced Placement exams.

But the nationally recognized magnet school, often called SEM, is now being criticized by some for enacting a rule that requires...

Defense lawyers are urging jurors to keep in mind Anna Nicole Smith's persistent pain when they deliberate on a drug conspiracy case against two of her doctors and her lawyer-boyfriend.

Howard K. Stern and Drs. Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich have pleaded not guilty to conspiring to provide excessive prescription drugs to the...

Unless lawmakers dig deep, Texas may pull back a lifeline that keeps about 15,000 people alive.

The Texas HIV Medication Program, which supplies life-sustaining anti-retroviral drugs to people with HIV or AIDS who can't afford them, will run out of money in the next two years and be forced to cut off enrollment, tighten...

Major League Baseball has told tenants of the center field office building at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington that they will be required to buy tickets for home playoff games.

Tenants received letters Monday informing them that they would have to buy standing-room-only tickets for each guest at each game in Arlington. The first would be...

Gov. Rick Perry tapped scores of big-dollar donors – including some who have business before the state or have benefited from taxpayer subsidies – to raise $8 million in the last three months for his re-election race.

The fundraising blitz leaves Perry with $10 million in the bank going into the final weeks of the...

Gastar Exploration Ltd. said Tuesday a company credit line has been expanded by almost 19 percent to $47.5 million.

The Houston oil and natural gas producer said its borrowing base under the company's credit agreement was raised by $7.5 million from $40 million. The base was previously reduced as a result of delays in returning its Belin...

 Austin entrepreneur David G. Nance and Gov. Rick Perry say they are big fans of each other. Nance has taken Perry hunting. Perry's son owned stock in Nance's former biotech company. Nance wrote fat checks to Perry's campaigns and pet projects.

Nance also is one of a number of large Perry campaign donors – he has...

South by Southwest Interactive today will announce an offshoot of its popular annual technology festival. The first "SXSWedu" will be held March 8-10, the days leading up to the 2011 SXSW Interactive Festival, and will focus on Texas education.

Festival Director Hugh Forrest said that his organization is partnering with...

 Now that Dallas Superintendent Michael Hinojosa has been passed over by the Las Vegas-area school district, attention has turned to whether he can fix relationships on the school board here and move the district forward.

The Clark County school board in Nevada voted overwhelmingly Wednesday night to choose Hinojosa's...

A Texas sheriff has asked Mexico to help find the body of an American who was shot in the head in Mexican waters in an ambush by armed boaters.

Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez says it's believed that 30-year-old David Michael Hartley died. Search efforts that ended around 9 p.m. Thursday were to resume Friday.

Gonzalez...