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• Dallas-area prosecutor to oppose review of affair allegations in Death Row case

  A suburban Dallas prosecutor said Friday that he will oppose attempts to review allegations of an unethical romantic relationship between a judge and a district attorney who were handling the case of a condemned killer scheduled to die next week.

• Single-vehicle wreck kills one in Azle

  The pickup, westbound on Jacksboro Highway, crossed over the center median, rolled and ejected the driver, who was pronounced dead at the scene.

• Jordanian arrested on steroid-related charges in Grapevine

  Maen Odeh, 31, faces almost a dozen drug charges involving anabolic steroids after police arrested him this week when he received a parcel that had been intercepted by federal authorities in New York and tracked to Grapevine.

• Texas UPS driver goes 1 million miles, no crashes

  A routine package delivery turned into a milestone for a UPS driver in East Texas.

• Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones freed from prison

  Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones was released Friday from federal prison after completing most of her six-month sentence for lying about her steroid use.

• State briefs: Palo Duro Canyon grows as Texas buys ranch

  Ranch purchase expands Palo Duro Canyon

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  The cases of 235 of 440 children have been dismissed, officials say, and only one child is back in foster care.

• FEMA to cover hotel costs for some Gustav evacuees

  Victims of Hurricane Gustav who can't return to their homes over the next month because of storm damage or power outages can have their hotel costs covered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, officials said Thursday.

• Former presidential candidate Ron Paul did what few others did at convention

  He received GOP delegate votes - 15.

• With time waning, judge steps aside in execution case

  A Collin County judge who set an important hearing on a Death Row inmate's case for two days after the man is scheduled to die stepped aside Wednesday, leaving lawyers' efforts to get an earlier hearing unresolved.

• New lawsuit filed against Farmers Branch

  Opponents of Farmers Branch's attempts to ban illegal immigrants from renting apartments in the city filed another lawsuit against the city Wednesday.

• Group claims Dewhurst is not complying with financial disclosure law

  The lieutenant governor has a trust estimated to be worth $200 million, and his disclosure form lists the fund as being worth '$25,000 or more.'

• Auditors say state agency didn't train workers, paid former employees

  Most employees at the five agencies of the Health and Human Services Commission are not given required training, which exposes the commission to litigation and reduces productivity, state auditors reported Wednesday.

• Judge pleads not guilty to federal sex crime charges

  U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent, vowing to bring a 'horde of witnesses' in his defense, was arraigned in federal court Wednesday where he pleaded not guilty to charges that he fondled a former case manager and tried to force her into a sexual act, the first time a federal judge has been charged with such crimes.

• Texas drops half of cases in polygamist sect raid

  Child by child, Texas authorities are acknowledging that many of the children seized during a raid on a polygamist sect's ranch can safely live with their parents or guardians.

• Abbott: Look at romance allegations in Hood's case

  In an unusual alliance, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said Thursday he was joining lawyers for a condemned prisoner in urging allegations of an unethical romantic relationship between the trial judge and prosecutor in the case be reviewed even if it means inmate Charles Dean Hood is not executed as scheduled next week.

• Oil operations resume, storms on the horizon

  Even as thousands of workers returned to their posts in the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico after Hurricane Gustav's mild blow, other storms traveling across the Atlantic Ocean served as a reminder that the heart of hurricane season is here.

• Cooler temperatures from Gustav won't last

  That nice cool weather we had Wednesday? Yep, you can thank former Hurricane Gustav. But don't heap on the praise: Temperatures are likely to be back in the 90s by this weekend, forecasters said.

• Keene woman killed in weekend rollover in Oklahoma

  Another woman remains in critical condition after the accident on Interstate 35 in Carter County in southern Oklahoma.

• Apartment owners sue Farmers Branch again over rental ban

  Opponents of Farmers Branch’s attempts to ban illegal immigrants from renting apartments in the city filed another lawsuit against the city Wednesday.