http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news RSS Feed for WFAA - News - Texas News en-us Thu, 24 May 2012 02:32:28 GMT 2012-05-24T02:32:28Z en-us http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/153150195.html HOUSTON (AP) — Retail gasoline prices across Texas continue their slide and are down another nickel a gallon this week to average $3.51. Thu, 24 May 2012 02:03:23 GMT http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/153150195.html 2012-05-24T02:03:23Z http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/153268095.html McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a South Texas man to nearly eight years in prison for trafficking guns, bullets and protective gear to Mexico. Thu, 24 May 2012 02:32:28 GMT http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/153268095.html 2012-05-24T02:32:28Z http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Houston-Mayor-Southwest-to-pay-for-Hobby-expansion-allowing-international-flights-153122315.html Southwest Airlines just threw $100 million on the table in a high-profile fight with United Airlines, committing to a deal that now seems destined to change the way Texans fly to Mexico and Latin America. Wed, 23 May 2012 23:28:54 GMT http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Houston-Mayor-Southwest-to-pay-for-Hobby-expansion-allowing-international-flights-153122315.html 2012-05-23T23:28:54Z http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Houston-parent-Cell-phone-video-shows-students-rolling-joints-on-bus--153113865.html HISD police are investigating after cell phone video surfaced of what sixth-graders say are fellow students rolling joints on a school bus. Wed, 23 May 2012 15:47:17 GMT http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Houston-parent-Cell-phone-video-shows-students-rolling-joints-on-bus--153113865.html 2012-05-23T15:47:17Z http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Quadruple-Amputee-Mom-Reaching-for-another-Milestone-152684115.html Katy Hayes, the Kingwood mother of three who lost both arms to a devastating infection, has been accepted for a double arm transplant. She and her husband will temporarily move to Boston to wait for a donor. Wed, 23 May 2012 03:06:17 GMT http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Quadruple-Amputee-Mom-Reaching-for-another-Milestone-152684115.html 2012-05-23T03:06:17Z http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Southwest-Airlines-expected-to-announce-international-expansion-152845405.html Houston's mayor and Southwest executives are expected to announce a deal Wednesday morning in Houston, where Southwest has been fighting to launch its first international service at Hobby Airport. Wed, 23 May 2012 03:18:07 GMT http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Southwest-Airlines-expected-to-announce-international-expansion-152845405.html 2012-05-23T03:18:07Z http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/152614835.html The Coast Guard suspended its search Tuesday for six people reported missing in the Gulf of Mexico after a mayday radio call said they were abandoning their sinking fishing boat in the waters off Galveston. Tue, 22 May 2012 21:00:46 GMT http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/152614835.html 2012-05-22T21:00:46Z http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/152524905.html WACO, Texas (AP) — A Muslim soldier on the run for three weeks after going AWOL from a Kentucky Army post found no help from friends in his Dallas-area hometown, where he hatched a plan and bought supplies to blow up a restaurant filled with Fort Hood troops, according to testimony at his federal trial Tuesday. Wed, 23 May 2012 03:03:12 GMT http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/152524905.html 2012-05-23T03:03:12Z http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/152560945.html DALLAS (AP) — As if the Girl Scouts' Samoa cookie isn't sinful enough, a longtime State Fair of Texas treat provider is perfecting a way to improve the chocolate-coconut-caramel cookie for fair goers. Tue, 22 May 2012 20:33:14 GMT http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/152560945.html 2012-05-22T20:33:14Z http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/152527115.html The Texas Forest Service is on the look for an Asian beetle that could soon threaten millions of the city's trees. Armed with sticky purple traps, they are doing what they can to find the destructive pests. But what then? Tue, 22 May 2012 12:40:33 GMT http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/152527115.html 2012-05-22T12:40:33Z