Updated: 3:32 PM 9-21-05 - The National Hurricane Center says that Hurricane Rita has strengthened into a top-of-the-scale Category 5 storm, with sustained wind of 165 mph. Residents of the Texas Gulf Coast have already ...
Posted: 3:23 PM 9-21-05 - Republican Gov. Rick Perry appointed Democrat John Sharp on Wednesday to lead a panel charged with restructuring the state tax system to pay for public schools. Sharp, who'd been considering a ...
Updated: 3:18 PM 9-21-05 - With Hurricane Rita barreling through the Gulf of Mexico toward Texas, homeowners and property insurers are bracing for potentially billions of dollars in damages. Texas homeowners already ...
Updated: 8:30 AM 9-21-05 - Leading senators floated the names of about a dozen candidates to fill Sandra Day O'Connor's vacancy on the Supreme Court, but President Bush kept his list to himself at a White House ...
Updated: 8:16 AM 9-21-05 - More than 1,850 "life endangerment claims" were filed by Allred Unit inmates in the 18 months that a gay burglary convict was imprisoned there, and several were his reports of being raped ...
Updated: 8:08 AM 9-21-05 - The Bush administration is advertising its stepped-up response plans for Hurricane Rita before the storm hits the Gulf Coast, eager to avoid the public pounding it got for its reaction to Hurricane ...
Updated: 8:14 AM 9-21-05 - This island city on Wednesday readied to evacuate hundreds of people who can't leave on their own as Hurricane Rita barreled toward the Texas Gulf Coast. About 80 buses were set to leave ...
Updated: 1:30 PM 9-20-05 - The Federal Reserve on Tuesday boosted a key interest rate for the 11th straight time and signaled that more rate hikes were likely even as the country recovers from the devastating effects of ...
Updated: 1:27 PM 9-20-05 - Oklahoma City band and orchestra teacher Robyn Hilger was named 2006 Teacher of the Year on Tuesday at a ceremony at the Oklahoma State Fair. Hilger has been a music teacher at ...
Updated: 2:36 PM 9-20-05 - Rita strengthened rapidly on Tuesday to a Category 2 hurricane as it lashed the Florida Keys with flooding rain and strong wind and sparked fears the storm could eventually bring new misery ...
Updated: 12:15 PM 9-20-05 - A deadly accident occurred in Caddo this morning just after 6 a.m. Troopers say a Saturn heading south on US 69 ran off the road and into the median. A woman passenger from Joplin, Mo., was thrown from the car and ...
Updated: 9:05 AM 9-20-05 - Coffee cups with a gay author's quote about growing up homosexual have been pulled from Baylor University's Starbucks. Dining contractor Aramark pulled the cups earlier this month ...
Updated: 9:02 AM 9-20-05 - Rita strengthened into a hurricane on Tuesday as it lashed the Florida Keys with heavy rain and strong wind, threatening the island chain with a storm surge of up to 7 feet and sparking fears ...
Updated: 8:26 AM 9-20-05 - Attorneys were preparing to present their cases to the newly chosen jury in the federal civil trial of seven Texas prison officials accused of refusing to protect an inmate from rapes ...
Updated: 9:16 AM 9-20-05 - Texas health officials pulled a hospital quality report from a state Web site after finding errors in discharge records that could lower some hospitals' death rates. The report posted by ...
Updated: 4:21 PM 9-19-05 - Under pressure from President Bush and other top federal officials, the mayor Monday suspended the reopening of large portions of the city over the next few days because of the threat of a new ...
Updated: 1:36 PM 9-19-05 - Just pronouncing x-linked retinoschisis is hard enough for 9-year-old Dalton Testerman, not to mention the difficulty he has dealing with the effects of this degenerative disease. Dalton knows ...
Updated: 12:37 PM 9-19-05 - A deadly wreck occurred early Monday morning when a man's car hit a cow on State Highway One in Johnston County. It happened around 5:30 a.m. just south of Mill Creek.
Posted: 10:35 PM - GRAYSON CO, TX-Several Grayson county fire departments rushed to a house fire near Tom Bean early Tuesday morning that destroyed a family's home.
Updated: 9:40 AM - MEAD, OK -- Two people were severely burned when a propane tank exploded in Bryan county Monday afternoon.
Posted: 06/14/2013 - DENISON, TX-Charges are pending for a Grayson county woman accused of leaving her pets inside a hot car, which turned deadly within minutes. Law enforcement and a local veterinarian tell us how you can protect your pets from the heat.
Posted: 06/11/2013 - ECTOR, TX-After several years in the blueprint stage, an overpass over the Highway 82 and FM-898 intersection is now a step closer to reality.
