After years of longer and more frequent deployments in the Army, soldiers should get more time at home as long as overall demand for troops overseas holds steady, the Army chief of staff said Monday.

The Army has agreed to investigate a disproportionate cluster of suicides among recruiters in an East Texas battalion, as well as allegations by other soldiers and family members that they were pressured to cover up serious problems in the battalion, Army Secretary Pete Geren said.

Betty Owen is 92 and after a stroke four years ago, needs a feeding tube and can’t walk. But she was determined not to miss Tuesday’s election. She arrived at her polling place on a gurney in an ambulance, where an election judge and support worker climbed aboard with an electronic voting machine and let her cast her ballot.

Bullets ripped through a northeast Bexar County home early Sunday, killing a 3-year-old girl sleeping next to her parents.

The custody case that swept 439 children from a polygamist sect’s western Texas ranch into foster care has largely evaporated, with state authorities dropping all but a few dozen cases against parents.

A suspected hit man for a Mexican drug cartel is being held by U.S. authorities near San Antonio and awaiting extradition to Mexico, where he has been charged in the deaths of two police officials.

Authorities have arrested 24 sex-offense suspects during a two-day sweep, part of a national crackdown on sex offenders before Halloween.

A Texas man was arrested Friday on allegations that he helped destroy evidence implicating the former stepfather of a 12-year-old Vermont girl who was abducted and killed.

The NAACP will have lawyers targeting 750 precincts around the nation on Election Day to help address complaints about possible voter disenfranchisement, the organization’s new president said Saturday.

A convicted child molester who pushed for the Texas law that allowed him to be voluntarily castrated more than a decade ago may go back to prison for allegedly possessing sexually explicit material.