9-8-05 - In little more than a week, Gov. Rick Perry went from beleaguered politician gearing up for a rough primary to magnanimous host, welcoming tens of thousands of hurricane evacuees...

9-8-05 - New Orleans evacuee Tony Owens is busy trying to settle in to a new life in Dallas, setting up a post office box, trying to get unemployment benefits, searching for a job and a place other than a ...

9-8-05 - A day after one Ohio reservist was acquitted in the beating of Afghan detainee who later died, another soldier accused of the same charge was set to go to trial. Sgt. Darin Broady, a member of the...

9-8-05 – 60,000 students evacuated from the hurricane-ravaged areas are expected to enroll in Texas schools. Local school districts are ready to take them on, they say, if only parents would sign up their children.

9-7-05 - Friday at the Whitesboro Homecoming Pep Rally and Game, the National Honor Society passed around the helmet for hurricane relief donations. The generosity of the fans in Whitesboro led to over ...

9-8-05 - Texoma airboat pilots are making a difference in New Orleans - pulling hundreds of stranded victims from the floodwater. Harold Speed is one of them - a boat maker from Hendrix, Oklahoma.

9-7-05 - Plans to transfer Hurricane Katrina evacuees from Texas to other states including Oklahoma have been put on hold because many of these people do not want to leave, an Oklahoma official said ...

9-7-05 - The supply fears that dominated energy-market psychology in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina receded somewhat on Wednesday as attention turned to expectations of softening demand.

9-7-05 - The federal government plans to begin doling out debit cards worth $2,000 each to adult victims of Hurricane Katrina, The Associated Press has learned. Homeland Security Department...

9-7-05 - Phone companies can offer enhanced TV services throughout Texas under legislation signed Wednesday by Gov. Rick Perry. Perry said the measure will spark new technology ...

9-7-05 - Ardmore Police say they're not short on manpower even though they've temporarily lost six officers to Louisiana relief efforts. The Ardmore Police Department was contacted by an outside security...

9-7-05 - Crude oil prices cooled further Wednesday as the production recovery proceeded in the hurricane-battered U.S. Gulf Coast, but unleaded gasoline prices rose and traders were keeping a close eye ...

9-7-05 - While Tuesday marked the first day of school for many hurricane victims able to find housing with friends, family or strangers, the enrollment process was just beginning for the masses of ...

9-7-05 - Dozens of hurricane evacuees slumped at a Dallas Greyhound station, clutching bus tickets they purchased to move on and begin rebuilding their broken lives. While some refugees are ...

9-7-05 - Radio talk shows and newspapers here buzzed with excitement over news that Mexico, long on the receiving end of U.S. disaster relief, was sending a hurricane aid convoy to help its larger...

9-7-05 - The next Hurricane Katrina disaster relief bill Congress considers should include reimbursement to Texas for providing help to hundreds of thousands of storm victims, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said...

9-7-05 – A Texoma family unable to give money to Katrina relief efforts went down to Dallas to volunteer last week, and came back home with nine people. Mike and Dedrea Higginbotham of Luella...

9-6-05 - The Texas Education Agency opened a hotline to take calls from teachers who would like to help, and here in Texoma, Davis schools need your help to assist with those displaced by Katrina.

9-6-05 - Gov. Rick Perry had asked legislators to approve a salary increase for judges during the 2005 regular session and added the issue to the agenda during the two failed special sessions on ...

9-6-05 - While the airlift of Hurricane Katrina refugees out of Texas appeared to be on hold, some evacuees were about to be moved to cruise ships in Galveston. Planes carrying evacuees ...

9-6-05 - Anticipating that ship traffic will be diverted from the damaged ports of New Orleans and Gulfport, Miss., a dredging project in the Houston Ship Channel has been expedited. The project, which will allow ...

9-6-05 - As the floodwaters rose around her 9th Ward home in New Orleans, Doris Causey tried her best to reassure her family. Causey, 59, and her daughter, Karen Cheneau, 40, were among more than ...

9-6-05 - An Army reservist accused of hitting a detainee who later died in Afghanistan claims his is a case of mistaken identity. Sgt. Christopher W. Greatorex is scheduled to stand trial Tuesday on...

9-6-05 - Marshall County authorities say they were one inmate short on a headcount Monday morning, but they aren't talking much about the escape. KXII started getting phone calls and emails Monday about ...

9-5-05 - Officials at the Falls Creek church camp near Davis say as many as 3,000 evacuees WON'T be arriving today. Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lieutenant Stewart Meyer says he was informed Monday ...