8-11-05 - About 77 percent of Texas schools and 87 percent of school districts met federal improvement standards this year, the Texas Education Agency announced Thursday.

8-11-05 - The director of the Grayson County Health Department resigns today over differences with county commissioners. Dr. Carolyn Fruthaler has served the county for ten years overseeing ...

8-11-05 - Sherman police are offering a $1,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest of Michael Kimmel. Kimmel is wanted for the murder of Gerry White. The 18-year-old was killed ...

8-11-05 - With a growing Hispanic population, Texas has joined three other states and the District of Columbia as a majority-minority state, according to population estimates released...

8-11-05 - A Norman man is federal custoday at the Oklahoma County jail after authorities found a possible explosive device in one of his bags at Will Rogers World Airport this morning. FBI spokesman ...

8-11-05 - A tractor-trailer heading to Oklahoma with more than 35,000 pounds of explosives overturns and catches fire in Utah, setting off the explosives and blowing a huge hole in the road. Tuesday's ...

8-11-05 - The driver of a motorcycle involved in an accident with a deer Wednesday morning has been treated and released from the hospital. The accident happened before dawn in Marshall county...

8-11-05 – Oklahoma state prisons come in dead last in officer-to-inmate ratio, prompting a group of Democrat senators from local districts to work on a plan. The Mack Alford Corrections Center in in Stringtown is ...

8-11-05 - Barbara Bel Geddes, who played Miss Ellie Ewing on the long-running hit television series "Dallas," has died at the age of 82. Bel Geddes was nominated for an Academy Award ...

8-10-05 - A 5th grader at Soper Schools was taken to a Hugo hospital after a pit bull puppy he and other students were playing with bit him on the arm. The student was treated for minor ...

8-10-05 - A judge has ruled that former state Senator Gene Stipe will receive the retirement benefits that were withheld after he pled guilty to federal felony charges. The Oklahoma Public Employee Retirement ...

8-10-05 - Crime Stoppers is offering a reward to catch criminals responsible for a recent rash of burglaries in Ardmore. The most recent crime was perpetrated this past weekend as burglars hit ...

8-10-05 - The city's development director was shot at inside City Hall on Wednesday morning, apparently by an irate citizen who was quickly subdued by others in the building. City Development Director ...

8-10-05 - Authorities say a Central Texas man's need for cash to buy cocaine led to a killing spree that left four people dead 17 years ago and his scheduled Wednesday evening trip to the death chamber.

8-10-05 - FBI agents on Tuesday arrested a San Antonio man accused of planting a note on a Southwest Airlines flight announcing falsely that a bomb was on the plane. Elias Jeremiah Cervantez, 20, was charged...

8-10-05 - President Bush is signing a whopping $286.4 billion transportation bill that lawmakers stuffed with plenty of cash for some 6,000 pet projects back home. Bush is hitting the road Wednesday to sign the highway bill into law in Aurora, Ill., ...

8-10-05 – Any given day, firefighters risk their lives for the towns they live in. More volunteer departments exist than city-funded departments, but these small departments are short on operating funds.

8-10-05 – A Denton County Trooper was shot during an overnight standoff in Denton County. The suspect was also gunned down, and killed. What started as a routine traffic ...

8-9-05 - Texas Rangers have arrested a man they believe is responsible for killing an Arlington woman and setting fire to her body in Cooke County. Lester Winningham Jr, 51, was arrested...

8-9-05 - An Ardmore mother and her boyfriend have been charged in the death of her baby boy. Jennifer Pfleger, 21, and her boyfriend Joseph Wilson, 22, are charged with neglect of a child. Authorities say ...

8-9-05 - The Healdton fire that destroyed two buildings last month has been officially ruled “Arson.” The fire started in a shed behind the Pizza Deli Express on a Sunday night. By the next morning ...

8-9-05 - Police are still looking for the suspect in this morning’s police chase in Denison. A man stole a pickup from the TMC Employee parking lot in Denison around 8 a.m. It turned into a ...

8-9-05 - Nearly 39,000 current, former and prospective students were exposed to possible identify theft after hackers broke into computer systems at the University of North Texas, school officials said Monday.

8-9-05 - Discovery and its crew of seven glided safely back to Earth on Tuesday, ending a riveting, at times agonizing, 14-day test of space shuttle safety that was shadowed by the ghosts of Columbia.

8-9-05 – Healthcare watch groups estimate that 98,000 people die in hospitals of medical-related injuries each year. Local hospitals are joining a nation-wide campaign to save those lives.