The Lone Star is getting a Texas-size speed limit. State transportation officials have boosted speed limits on two stretches of rural highway from 75 miles-an-hour to 80.

A woman whose heel was cut with a pumice stone while getting a pedicure in a Fort Worth salon in July died in February due to a staph infection that triggered a heart attack. Now her children are suing for unspecified damages. The three teenage children of Kimberly Jackson filed a lawsuit last week, claiming Angel Nails did not follow state regulations for disinfecting the whirlpool and instruments.

Authorities have indicted a Texas man on charges he threw a dog into an operating washing machine, resulting in injuries that killed the two year old pup. A grand jury has charged 32 year old Chad Edward Ellis of Euless, Texas, with animal cruelty.

Baylor University in Waco, Texas, which bills itself as the world's largest Baptist college, has threatened to discipline female students if they pose for Playboy magazine, which is trying to recruit models from the college. Playboy photographers came to Baylor's hometown seeking models for a photo spread on women of the Big 12 college athletic conference, of which the college is a member.

San Antonio, TX (AHN)-After a firestorm of protests from the public, a controversial Texas program to send undercover agents into bars to arrest drunks has been halted.