UVALDE, Tex. – A Sam Houston University student couple died in a helicopter crash in the hill country of south Texas early Sunday within hours of their wedding, authorities reported. The pilot of the craft also died.

Officials in Quinlan, Texas, said the woman was attending a Sept. 8 football game at Hobart Lytal Memorial stadium when several members of the crowd made school administration aware of her t-shirt. Officials called the t-shirt "offensive, portraying violence, and threatening."

WASHINGTON — As Senate Republicans make a final stab this year at undoing former President Barack Obama's health care law, health care advocates are urging their legislators to vote against the measure.“We believe in protecting our neighbor,” said Perry Bryant, president of West Virginians for Affordable Health Care.Alarmed by an independent estimate the bill would cost the state $1 billion in funding used to help hundreds of thousands afford medical coverage, Bryant urged Sen. Shelley Moore Capito “not to vote as a partisan politician in D.C.”Republican leaders are hoping a different approach and the urgency of following through on campaign promises will this time muster enough votes to get rid of the controversial law.However, they face some of the same obstacles as in July, when their effort fell a vote short.GOP senators from states like West Virginia and Ohio — where Medicaid coverage was expanded to more people — face the prospect of supporting the loss of millions of dollars that help people afford medical coverage. Republican governors from those states, like Massachusetts' Charlie Baker and Ohio's John Kasich, are opposing the bill.Health care advocacy groups representing doctors and hospitals, along with the AARP, say allowing states to undo the law's regulations would again allow insurers to charge older people and those with medical conditions higher premiums.

AUSTIN — Construction crews recently wrapped up work on James Gaines’ new house in College Station, where he’s the chief economist at Texas A&M University’s Real Estate Center. 

AUSTIN — It’s difficult at this point to say exactly how Texas will go about paying to recover from a disaster whose effects are still not fully measured, but there’s now at least a price tag on the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey.

In the wake of historic flooding in Texas from Hurricane Harvey, a French satire magazine sparked controversy with an editorial cartoon aligning Harvey victims with neo-Nazis.

Absent this year in the CMA Awards nominations are any females in the Entertainer of the Year category. Fan favorites Blake Shelton and Jason Aldean have also been left out in the cold. Fans of both superstars have been vocal in their disappointment on social media

At the request of the Humane Society of the United States, country star and Texas native Miranda Lambert deployed her MuttNation team, buses and trucks to gather and evacuate adoptable pets from overcrowded Texas shelters in order to make room for animals affected by Hurricane Harvey. Dogs who were already in shelters before the deadly storm were relocated so that displaced pets in Houston could be housed and more easily reunited with their owners.

ExxonMobil acknowledged Tuesday that Hurricane Harvey damaged two of its refineries, causing the release of hazardous pollutants. 

Less than a week after opening its door for fall classes, Sam Houston State University announced it will until Tuesday, Sept. 5, due to Hurricane Harvey. 

As flood waters continue to rise, Texans are mobilizing everything from church directories to hobby car networks to assist parts of their state inundated by Harvey's rainfall. 

Abbott said that 3,000 state and national guard members are now deployed, along with 1,750 Texas Department of Public Safety officers in one hard hit area, 500 vehicles and 14 aircraft to deal with flooding, displaced residents and other emergencies.

AUSTIN – Emergency management officials are urging residents of Houston and nearby counties who are trying to escape flood waters not to take shelter in their attics. 

The total rainfall from the storm is likely to tally up to a widespread 15 to 30 inches, with a few localized spots picking up to 50 inches or more. Many textbooks have the 60-inch mark as a once-in-a-million-year recurrence interval, meaning that if any spots saw that amount, they would essentially be dealing with a one-in-a-million-year event.

AUSTIN – As flash flood warnings blanketed a dozen counties in the wake of Tropical Storm Harvey on Sunday morning, officials shut down the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County.

Speaking by phone as he drove through the city, senior officer Travis Pace, a police department spokesman, said that while “we understand” that residents want to return home, “if they’ve got a place to stay and it’s comfortable” elsewhere, delaying a return might be a good idea since they may not have power.

AUSTIN – Announcing that he was adding 20 counties to a state disaster declaration, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said on Saturday that “it will be several days before crews can address about 338,000 power outages."

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced on its website that the move from the Brazoria County units in Southeast Texas would involve about 4,500 inmates. 

Harvey rapidly intensified Thursday morning in the central Gulf of Mexico, and officially became a hurricane at 1 p.m. eastern. 

GREENVILLE, Texas – A drunken driver who struck and killed a pedestrian, then fled the scene has been sentenced by a Texas jury to life in prison for murder and leaving the scene of an accident involving death.