Paul Weber

Ellzey won a come-from-behind victory over Republican Susan Wright, the widow of the late Rep. Ron Wright.

A winter storm dropping snow and ice prompted a power emergency in Texas.

Tumbling crude prices are pinching off the largesse that helps universities in oil-rich states afford what they want when state budgets are straitened, which is especially the case now. And the consequences are becoming obvious.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld Texas' strict abortion restrictions that could soon leave only seven abortion clinics open in a state of 27 million people.

Deadly severe weather over the long holiday weekend tested government alert and evacuation procedures, as officials scrambled to deal with storms and historic flooding that left more than a dozen people dead and a similar number missing.