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An Associated Press analysis of Border Patrol records finds that agents have racked up daily overtime at a cost of about $1.4 billion in the past six years while the number of arrests of illegal border crossers has fallen to the lowest level in nearly 40 years.

The U.S. Army says a 49-year-old brigadier general has died in Afghanistan.

Austin police began clearing the City Hall grounds downtown of Occupy Austin demonstrators who have camped on the square for nearly four months.

Mexico's former ruling party has filed a complaint accusing federal prosecutors of leaking information tying three of the party's former governors to a drug money-laundering investigation.

A North Texas site once meant to host the superconducting super collider will be the new home for a chemical plant that burned last fall.

North Dakota Sens. Kent Conrad and John Hoeven have collected on a friendly bet they made with Texas Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchinson and John Cornyn on the outcome of the Football Championship Subdivision title game last month.

Authorities say four pit bulls blamed for mauling a North Texas toddler have been euthanized.

Two teenage boys are dead and their father is hospitalized with burns after fire swept through their mobile home in the Texas Hill Country.

A former U.S. fighter pilot shot down over Bosnia has suspended his campaign for the Texas Senate amid the redistricting dispute.

A man has been arrested in a South Texas cockfighting investigation after he allegedly tried to reclaim more than 50 seized roosters.