A pickup truck crashed through a fence and into a pool in Coppell late Sunday night. The driver was trapped inside and later died at a hospital. Brad Hawkins reports.

Americans are alarmingly overweight, and kids are of particular concern.

"Take a Look at This" -- the video you have to see and will want to share with your friends. Today, a wall of water, mudslides in the Northeast and a hit-and-run caught on tape.

Eating the right amount of healthy foods is essential to helping maintain a healthy weight.

Hurricane Ike tore into Cuba Sunday night as a Category 3 storm with winds around 120 miles per hour. It's since lost some of that force, but high waves have forced authorities to evacuate hundreds of thousands out of harm's way. Morgan Neill is in Havana with the latest.

The chairman of the Senate Rules Committee has parted with many of her Democratic colleagues and said that the Senate should seat former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris.

An intelligence monitoring center reported that Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader is blaming Barack Obama and Egypt's president for the Israeli offensive in Gaza.

The 46-year-old Republican from District 22, in the Houston area, was sworn in during a Washington ceremony in which all members of the House took the oath.

The study by the Pew Center says these states depend too heavily on slow mail systems to deliver ballots to voters and often don't send out ballots early enough.

El Paso City Councilman Beto O'Rourke Tuesday pushed a resolution that asks the U.S. government to start an “open, honest, national dialogue on ending the prohibition of narcotics.”

Local arts patron James Armstrong has pledged $1 million to the furthering of Austin Symphony Orchestra's education programs.

San Marcos resident Gregory Anthony Rodriguez was convicted in November of aggravated sexual assault of two minor children.