Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, was sworn in Monday as the newest member of the Texas Senate. The former Harris County commissioner replaces the late Mario Gallegos in SD-6, and will serve (barring redistricting) until 2017. She'll be on four committees: Government Organization, Intergovernmental Relations, Jurisprudence, and Nominations.

Austin police charged Rep. Naomi Gonzalez, D-El Paso, with driving while intoxicated after she apparently hit another car that, in turn, hit someone on a bicycle. No one was seriously injured. 

Kenneth Evans, dean of the business school at the University of Oklahoma, is the sole finalist for the president’s job at Lamar University. He’ll succeed James Simmons, who has held the top post at Lamar for 14 years. 

Former Rep. Delwin Jones, R-Lubbock, got spanked for a wording problem on his campaign signs and on those campaign emery boards he’s been handing out since black-and-white TVs were all the rage. In his rematch against Rep. Charles Perry last year, Jones’ campaign materials said “Elect Delwin Jones State Representative District 83.” According to the Texas Ethics Commission, they should have said “Elect Delwin Jones for State Representative District 83.” Perry won in 2012, just like he did in 2010.

Deaths: Former El Paso Mayor Raymond Telles, the first Hispanic chief executive of a major city in the U.S. (1957-61). He was also U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica in the Kennedy administration and on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under presidents Nixon and Ford. He was 97.

Lt. Col. (retired) Borah Van Dormolen, Republican national committeewoman from Texas, a one-time professor at West Point, and a stalwart in the Texas Federation of Republican Women.