KRGV.com

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst is expected to lay out a plan to push for more charter schools and classroom accountability. Dewhurst and Republican Senator Dan Patrick are set to lay out their education priorities today at an Austin private school

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) The founder of a Texas cargo airline is set to be sentenced this morning in Brownsville for federal child pornography charges. Sixty-one-year-old Robert Hedrick was convicted in May.

HOUSTON (AP) A Nacogdoches County judge is set to hear oral arguments today from a Texas landowner and lawyers for TransCanada. The two sides are debating whether tar sands are crude oil. A proposed pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast would run through Michael Bishop's property, but he says the company lied to him because tar sands aren't crude.

UNDATED (AP) A 20-year-old Abilene man is one of 18 people who are receiving valor medals today from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. Joshua Steed managed to disarm a gunman who'd shot his co-worker at the front desk of an apartment complex.