Estes elected president pro tem of Texas Senate
Wichita Falls Sen. Craig Estes was elected president pro tempore of the Texas Senate on Monday, a post in which he will head the affairs of state when the governor and the lieutenant governor are out of state.
AUSTIN, Texas College football analyst Craig James, who starred as a tailback at Southern Methodist University and with the New England Patriots in the 1980s, announced Monday he was running for the US Senate as a Republican from Texas, a GOP fundraiser said.