LEWISVILLE, Texas (AP) — Police in Texas say a man fatally stabbed his 16-month-old son and was shot in the leg by a neighbor who tried to stop the attack.

MISSOURI CITY, Texas (AP) — Police say a female employee opened fire at a Houston-area food distribution center, killing one person and wounding another.

HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston doctor who was convicted of sexually assaulting a heavily sedated patient won't serve any prison time.

ANNA, Texas (AP) — Authorities say three people died and four others were hospitalized after a pickup truck crossed into the oncoming lane on a rural stretch of highway outside Dallas and was struck by a car.

NEWARK, Ohio (AP) — An upcoming art exhibit will showcase different barriers along the U.S. border with Mexico based on years of research by an Ohio professor.

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — An Auburn University marine scientist has received a USDA grant to study oysters.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says the body of a drowned fisherman has been recovered in southern Texas.

HOUSTON (AP) — A sign at a Houston elementary and middle school that sparked criticism on social media has been removed.

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — More than 120 Vietnam War-era prisoners of war are reconnecting with one another at a Dallas-area reunion hosted by developer Ross Perot (puh-ROH') Jr. and a nonprofit veterans' organization.

DALLAS (AP) — Teenagers who witnessed a police shooting that killed a high school freshman in Texas say there was no reason for the ex-officer to fire into the car carrying the victim and other black teenagers.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police have arrested three men suspected in the home-invasion shooting death earlier this summer of a 36-year-old Lincoln woman.

KARNES CITY, Texas (AP) — An advocacy group says 16 men temporarily transferred out of a Texas family immigration detention center have been returned following what federal authorities called a "disturbance."

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been accused of destroying evidence relevant to the case of families from Sandy Hook Elementary School who are suing him for claiming the massacre was a hoax.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The federal government has approved a system developed by the state of Alabama to count the number of red snapper caught in the Gulf of Mexico.

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — A New Mexico man who was a suspect in the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend has been killed in a confrontation with police in West Texas.

PHOENIX (AP) — The sales and marketing director of Backpage.com pleaded guilty to conspiring to facilitate prostitution in a scheme to give free ads to prostitutes in a bid to draw them away from competitors.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A military plane flying from Maryland to Texas has made an emergency landing in Knoxville.

HOUSTON (AP) — A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to more than six years in prison for attempting to blow up a Confederate statue last summer at a Houston park.

HOUSTON (AP) — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has stopped funding a Houston hospital's renowned heart transplant program amid scrutiny over patient deaths.

DALLAS (AP) — A shootout in southeast Dallas has left a suspect dead and an undercover police officer wounded.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge has extended a freeze on deporting families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, giving a reprieve to hundreds of children and their parents to remain in the United States.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas unemployment rate stood at 4 percent for the second consecutive month, just a tick below the national jobless figure of 4.1 percent.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police say a 21-year-old man has died after being shot by officers who were responding to a chaotic scene outside a downtown Austin club where several fights broke out and gunfire was reported.

SANTA TERESA, N.M. (AP) — Construction workers have completed more than half of a new barrier along a desolate stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in southern New Mexico as part of President Donald Trump's fight against drug trafficking and illegal immigration.

RHOME, Texas (AP) — The pilot of a small plane was killed and his three passengers, two of them children, were injured when the single-engine aircraft crashed on takeoff from a rural North Texas airfield.

KARNES CITY, Texas (AP) — U.S. immigration authorities say about 40 men at a family detention center in Texas were involved in a "disturbance."

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Three University of Texas professors have lost another legal round in their challenge to a Texas law allowing people with concealed-handgun licenses to carry weapons on public university campuses.

COPPELL, Texas (AP) — The average retail gasoline price in Texas fell by 2 cents this week to settle at $2.61 for a gallon of unleaded.

HOUSTON (AP) — An environmental report says industrial facilities in Texas reported releasing 8.3 million pounds of toxic fumes in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey but later reduced the air pollution estimates by 1.7 million pounds.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the U.S. State Department to conduct a more thorough review of the Keystone XL pipeline's proposed pathway after Nebraska state regulators changed the route.

BOSTON (AP) — Madison Kocian and Kyla Ross watched the women they won Olympic gold with step forward one by one over the last 18 months to detail their abuse at the hands of disgraced former USA Gymnastics national team doctor Larry Nassar.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Two gangsters drew life sentences in federal prison for the fatal 2014 shooting of an off-duty San Antonio-area police officer outside a tattoo parlor he co-owned.

DALLAS (AP) — A murder trial for a former Texas police officer who killed a black 15-year-old teenager highlights the heightened role video evidence plays in high-profile police shootings that have stirred discourse and triggered protests nationwide over issues of race and law enforcement.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission has shut down a pirate radio station that served as the flagship outlet for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Oil and gas companies made $178.1 million in high bids for federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico. That's about 28 percent above the last gulf-wide sale in March.

PLANO, Texas (AP) — A recall election to decide whether to remove a North Texas city council member who made an anti-Islam social media post will be canceled.

ATLANTA (AP) — About nine months after a panel recommended the immediate renaming of Confederate Avenue in Atlanta, city officials are planning a public hearing.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas has issued its first A-F letter grade academic accountability ratings for school districts, with only about 1 percent receiving failing marks.

DALLAS (AP) — The Catholic Diocese of Dallas says that the Most Rev. Charles Grahmann, whose 17-year tenure as bishop of the diocese was marred by one of the first church sex abuse scandals to explode into public view, has died. He was 87.

HOUSTON (AP) — The attorney taking on President Donald Trump over his alleged affair with an adult film actress says he's successfully reunited a 9-year-old boy with his mother in Guatemala.