The City Council in Kyle has taken an initial step to bar sales of the synthetic marijuana products "K2" and "Spice."
The council voted 6-1 earlier this week to make the purchase, sale or use of salvia divinorum a Class C misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $2,000. A final vote will come later.
Currently, neither Austin nor San Marcos has laws that prohibit the sale or use of K2. Several North Texas cities have taken steps to outlaw K2.
Rice University's radio station will remain on the air after resolution of a contentious issue that arose after the school decided to sell the KTRU tower and license to the University of Houston for $9.5 million.
The Rice station will broadcast over a high-definition channel assigned to radio station KPFT, beginning Feb. 14. The Houston Chronicle reported that the deal was reached with Pacifica Foundation, which owns KPFT. The original proposal called for KTRU to become an Internet-only station.
Fort Worth police have implemented a written policy prohibiting "biased-based policing."
Officials say officers who violate the special order, signed Friday by Chief Jeff Halstead, will likely be fired.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that the order prohibits police employees from considering "race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, disability, economic status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender status, membership in a cultural group or other individual characteristics or distinctions" while performing police duty.
A former Houston-area police officer has been convicted on federal firearms and mail fraud charges in the Eastern District of Texas.
U.S. Attorney John M. Bales on Thursday said a jury found Harry Leroy Kelley guilty of possessing stolen ammunition and two counts of conspiracy to commit mail fraud following a two-week trial.
Prosecutors said Kelley, a longtime police officer in Cleveland, 45 miles northeast of Houston, stole ammunition meant for law enforcement and exchanged it for weapons that he then sold in his private side-business.
A man with a history of mental illness has pleaded guilty to the 2009 ax slaying of an actor in Austin.
Investigators do not believe 28-year-old Seth Christopher Tatum knew 67-year-old Louis Byron Perryman, whose car was stolen after the killing.
Tatum on Tuesday pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life in prison.
Perryman had minor roles in the movies "Poltergeist," "The Blues Brothers" and television's "Walker, Texas Ranger."
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