AP Texas News

SAN ANTONIO — Valero Energy Corp. will not appeal the Texas environmental agency's rejection of its request for a large tax break and potential $92 million refund at six Texas refineries, a company spokesman said Tuesday.

HOUSTON — Houston police say two 10-year-old boys have been charged with sexually assaulting an 8-year-old boy on a school bus.

HOUSTON — A school official says an 18-year-old brought a gun inside a Houston high school and shot another student in the leg despite metal detectors on the campus.

BROWNSVILLE — Authorities in the same South Texas school district where a student brandishing a pellet gun was fatally shot by police last week have found a gun that shoots blanks and a machete in a student's car on another campus.

AUSTIN — A Texas abortion law passed last year that requires doctors to show sonograms to patients can be enforced while opponents challenge the measure in court, a federal appeals court said Tuesday in a ruling that signaled the judges believe the law is constitutional.

DALLAS — It comes as no surprise for experienced travelers, but novices are sometimes shocked to find that the final cost of airline trip can be much higher than the price touted on the airline's website or advertising.

WACO — The trial for a soldier charged with planning to bomb a restaurant filled with Fort Hood troops has been delayed until May.

PLANO — J.C. Penney Co. named board member Thomas J. Engibous, former head of Texas Instruments, as the department store chain's new chairman. He succeeds Myron E. Ullman III, former chief executive and chairman, who is finishing up his reign at Penney's.

HOUSTON — City roads were flooded and thousands of Houston residents lost power Monday after powerful thunderstorms plowed through the area, with a possible tornado damaging and shutting down a nearby mall.

EL PASO — Rapper Snoop Dogg is facing a minor drug charge in Texas after border agents say they found several joints on his tour bus.

AUSTIN — Audio chip maker Cirrus Logic Inc. said Monday that sales during the fiscal third quarter were stronger than expected, and the company also forecast a strong fourth quarter.

HOUSTON — Texas corrections officials have decided that imprisoned polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs will be without phone privileges for 90 days as punishment for making calls that were put on speakerphone — presumably so he could preach to his followers

FULTON — Raising its slim, white neck out of the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, one of the world's last surviving whooping cranes hungrily searches a Texas marsh for the blue crabs and berries it devours during its annual migration to the Gulf Coast.

COLLEGE STATION — Tyra White had 20 points and Kelsey Bone scored 18 points to lead No. 9 Texas A&M to a 75-58 win over Oklahoma on Sunday.

HOUSTON — It didn't take long — mere seconds, in fact — to create a new hole in the skyline of Houston's medical district.